The Pen and Pencil
thepenandpencilnq.co.uk is partly visible to agents.
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Ways to reach The Pen and Pencil directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Through designmynight acting for the business. Report a mistake
Fourways House, 57 Hilton St, M1 2EJ, Manchester · +441616603303
Prices: 16 prices on the site, the middle one £11.00
Places near The Pen and Pencil that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Asmara Bella Bar & Restaurant70 m · east african
- The Green Lab130 m
- Bab140 m · doner kebab
- Sampa160 m
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Pen and Pencil's website. What The Pen and Pencil offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through DesignMyNight.
39 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Not Ready
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.
What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
In Manchester, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £9.00.
Every city compared →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 23 everyday questions about Manchester and named 142 places. The Pen and Pencil wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How The Pen and Pencil compares
1,041 of 2,377 in Manchester
Top 44% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Terra & Mare C, The Bloc - Fast Food & Dessert Restaurant Stockport C. Just below: Wolf At The Door C, Brewski's Big Tray BBQ C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 85% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites using DesignMyNight 652 sites | 77% | 70% | 60% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8oogalu mexican | 31 m | F | no |
| Cardinal Rule american | 43 m | D | no |
| Asmara Bella Bar & Restaurant east_african | 72 m | A | yes |
| The Green Lab | 133 m | C | yes |
| Bab doner_kebab | 139 m | B | yes |
| Alabama's All American Eatery american | 140 m | F | no |
| Quarter House Beer & BBQ barbecue | 157 m | C | no |
| Sampa | 158 m | B | yes |
| Brazuca british | 159 m | D | no |
| Ply pizza | 175 m | F | no |
Businesses like The Pen and Pencil in Manchester
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2,377 | 55% | 33% | 60% |
| Sites using DesignMyNight in Manchester | 10 | 64% | 30% | 60% |
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 154th of 2,377 in Manchester, up from 1041st.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- 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
- 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester. 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.
- Booking through designmynight on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
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