The Direct Index
Report · Cape Town · scanned 2026-10-24

The Pelican Hout Bay

thepelican.co.za is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Pelican Hout Bay directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through ubereats_storefront acting for the business. Report a mistake

37 Victoria Ave, 7806, Hout Bay · +27607565183

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Pelican Hout Bay that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open The Pelican Hout Bay's website. What The Pelican Hout Bay offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Uber Eats Storefront.

72.3%

47 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Cape Town and named 64 places. The Pelican Hout Bay wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Pelican Hout Bay compares

Where it stands

205 of 813 in Cape Town

Top 25% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The 41 B, The Falafel Guy B. Just below: The Pot Luck Club B, Thorfynns Restaurant B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt42%no

The top 10% are the 85 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%72.3%
Sites using Uber Eats Storefront 720 sites72%59%72.3%

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Bucca Bugattis pizza112 mDno
Papino's italian156 mAyes
Pirates Steakhouse And Pub (Hout Bay)209 mByes
Wharfside Grill Restaurant - Mariner's Wharf seafood636 mCyes
Muriel's Munchies seafood, burger717 mDno
Fish4Africa Hout Bay seafood763 mByes
The Collective Hout Bay844 mDno
Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar burger, steak_house, sushi857 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Pelican Hout Bay in Cape Town

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Cape Town81353%26%72.3%
Sites built with WordPress in Cape Town42060%31%72.3%
Sites using Uber Eats Storefront in Cape Town378%100%72.3%
Sites built with WordPress and using Uber Eats Storefront in Cape Town280%100%72.3%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Cape Town

Ferrymans Tavern A 100% · Quay Four A 98.5% · Baker & Bean Café, Bakery & Deli A 95.4% · Woodlands Eatery A 94.9% · The Farmhouse Somerset West A 92.3%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 44th of 813 in Cape Town, up from 205th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  3. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Cape Town. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Ordering through ubereats_storefront on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "The Pelican Hout Bay",
  "url": "https://www.thepelican.co.za/",
  "telephone": "+27607565183",
  "address": "37 Victoria Ave, 7806, Hout Bay",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -34.04188776,
    "longitude": 18.35017869
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.order.store/store/the-pelican/u9fCTSNSQE-3ksn0QytTRg",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# The Pelican Hout Bay

> organization in 37 Victoria Ave, 7806, Hout Bay, Cape Town. Phone +27607565183.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://www.order.store/store/the-pelican/u9fCTSNSQE-3ksn0QytTRg (through ubereats_storefront acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.thepelican.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2026/PelicanMenus.pdf

## About

- Website: https://www.thepelican.co.za/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Pelican Hout Bay

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/thepelican.co.za, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/cape-town/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.order.store/store/the-pelican/u9fCTSNSQE-3ksn0QytTRg vendor on own site: Uber Eats Storefrontfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menuwww.thepelican.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2026/PelicanMenus.pd pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+27607565183

Stable links that count: /go/thepelican.co.za/order, /go/thepelican.co.za/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
no
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
no
MCP server card
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Vendor terms for agents
Uber Eats Storefront, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About Uber Eats Storefront · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes