# Water Lily Restaurant: Agent-Direct Score A (87.5%)

Site: https://www.thewaterlily.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thewaterlily.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (provisional: the assistant citation check pending)
Water Lily Restaurant is ready for agents.

## What to fix first
- **No menu or price list found.** Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
- **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without a marketplace in the loop.

## Where it stands
Rank 25 of 309 in Manchester (top 8%).

| What the top tenth does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 88% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 97% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 56% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 31% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Nest Cafe and Eatery (C, 21 m, https://directindex.org/r/nestcafeandeatery.co.uk); Croma Chorlton (F, 60 m, https://directindex.org/r/cromapizza.co.uk); Hungamaa (B, 199 m, https://directindex.org/r/hungamaa.co.uk); Thai Spice (A, 416 m, https://directindex.org/r/thai-spice.co.uk); Bar San Juan (C, 427 m, https://directindex.org/r/barsanjuan.com); Casa De Moor (B, 442 m, https://directindex.org/r/casademoor.com); The Lead Station (C, 463 m, https://directindex.org/r/theleadstation.co.uk); Double Zero Pizza (B, 588 m, https://directindex.org/r/pizzeriadoublezero.com); Drop Bar Cafe (B, 618 m, https://directindex.org/r/thedropbarcafe.net); Zad's (F, 622 m, https://directindex.org/r/zads.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked and claimed businesses in each city index.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| reachable | 25 | 25 |
| readable | 15 | 25 |
| actionable | 30 | 30 |
| cited | 0 | 0 (probes pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare criteria)
Level 1 of 5: Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/thewaterlily.co.uk
- 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: yes
- 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

Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thewaterlily.co.uk&force=1