# The Valet: Agent-Direct Score B (76.9%)

Site: https://thevaletlondon.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thevaletlondon.com
Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
The Valet is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open The Valet's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Salon IQ.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://s-iq.co/BookingPortal/dist/?salonid=215e39d7-d5be-434e-8d1b-cd0fda9e9553&tab=book (through salon_iq acting for the business)
- Phone: +442086569222
- Address: 205 Lower Addiscombe Rd, CR0 6RA, Croydon
- Hours, from thevaletlondon.com: Mon 09:00–18:00; Tue closed; Wed 09:00–18:00; Thu 10:00–19:00; Fri 09:00–18:00; Sat 10:00–17:00; Sun 10:00–16:00
- Open on Saturday
- Open on Sunday

## Nearby, also direct
Places near The Valet that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Mb-beauty (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/mb-beauty.co.uk
- SNM London Hair Studio (760 m): https://directindex.org/r/snmlondonhairstudio.co.uk
- LashedbyChanelle (870 m): https://directindex.org/r/lashedbychanelle.com
- Icon Barbers (910 m): https://directindex.org/r/iconbarbers.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2023.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In London, 68% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# The Valet

> hair salon in 205 Lower Addiscombe Rd, CR0 6RA, Croydon, London hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +442086569222.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://s-iq.co/BookingPortal/dist/?salonid=215e39d7-d5be-434e-8d1b-cd0fda9e9553&tab=book (through salon_iq acting for the business)

## Opening hours

Mo,We,Fr 09:00-18:00; Th 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 10:00-16:00

## About

- Website: https://thevaletlondon.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## 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 (HairSalon).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Appointments through salon_iq on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

## Where it stands
Not ranked yet in London hairdressers and beauty salons.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 95% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 11% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 18% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 59% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Mb-beauty (F, 139 m, https://directindex.org/r/mb-beauty.co.uk); Lotus Zen Incense (F, 189 m, https://directindex.org/r/lotuszenincense.com); Tina Nails Addiscombe (F, 488 m, https://directindex.org/r/tinanailsaddiscombe.co.uk); Havana Tanning Lounge (F, 494 m, https://directindex.org/r/havanatanning.co.uk); Comfort Click (F, 618 m, https://directindex.org/r/comfortclick.co.uk); SNM London Hair Studio (F, 759 m, https://directindex.org/r/snmlondonhairstudio.co.uk); Hadi's Male Grooming (F, 792 m, https://directindex.org/r/hadismalegrooming.co.uk); Love & Lashes (C, 821 m, https://directindex.org/r/loveandlashes.co.uk); LashedbyChanelle (B, 870 m, https://directindex.org/r/lashedbychanelle.com); Icon Barbers (C, 914 m, https://directindex.org/r/iconbarbers.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
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 London hairdressers and beauty salons and named 85 places. The Valet wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/london-salons/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); Sites using Salon IQ 61% (24% A or B, 175 sites); This site 76.9%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thevaletlondon.com/agent-view

## Businesses like The Valet in London hairdressers and beauty salons

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 2154 | 57% | 22% | 76.9% |
| Sites using Salon IQ in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 94 | 61% | 22% | 76.9% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using Salon IQ in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 57 | 63% | 21% | 76.9% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Salon IQ in London hairdressers and beauty salons: Uffizi Hair Gallery (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/uffizi.co.uk); Oxea London - Invisible Hair Solutions (City of London) (B 79.5%, https://directindex.org/r/oxealondon.com); Jam Hair (B 78.8%, https://directindex.org/r/jam-hair.com); Fowler35 (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/fowler35.com); Joseph's (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/joseph-hair.co.uk).

## The direct record
What agents get for The Valet, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thevaletlondon.com
- Book: https://s-iq.co/BookingPortal/dist/?salonid=215e39d7-d5be-434e-8d1b-cd0fda9e9553&tab=book (vendor on own site: Salon IQ; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Mo,We,Fr 09:00-18:00; Th 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 10:00-16:00 (closed now) (from thevaletlondon.com)
- Phone: +442086569222
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thevaletlondon.com/book

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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, Salon IQ: 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.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/thevaletlondon.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/thevaletlondon.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/thevaletlondon.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thevaletlondon.com&force=1