The Direct Index
Report · Cambridge cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

The Free Press

freepresscambridge.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Free Press directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon closed · Tue–Sat 12:00–23:00 · Sun 12:00–21:00

Prospect Row 7 CB1 1DU Cambridge · 01223368337

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Prices: 52 prices on the site, the middle one £8.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Free Press 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 Free Press's website. It can read what The Free Press offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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 →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

52 prices on the landing page, the middle one £8.00.

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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 Cambridge cafes and bars and named 40 places. The Free Press wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Free Press compares

Where it stands

22 of 84 in Cambridge cafes and bars

Top 26% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Panton Arms B, The Box Room Board Game Cafe B. Just below: White Swan B, B Tap Baron B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)80%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours40%no
Have an llms.txt20%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 34,188 sites61%41%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Starbucks coffee_shop217 mDyes
GAIL's231 mAyes
WT's Sports Bar237 mCno
Burleigh Arms416 mCyes
The Cherry Pit coffee_shop, pastry, dessert456 mDno
Champion of the Thames493 mFno
Cambridge Tap499 mCno
5 Blends Coffee House coffee_shop511 mCyes
The Regal513 mByes
Revolution517 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Free Press in Cambridge cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Cambridge cafes and bars8458%35%73.8%
Sites built with Squarespace in Cambridge cafes and bars1169%45%73.8%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 2nd of 84 in Cambridge cafes and bars, up from 22nd.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. 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 Cambridge cafes and bars. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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. Show the details