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Castle Howard Farm Shop

Groceries · York

AI Readiness Certificate

Independently assessed by Code Inclusive
AI Readiness Score
27 / 100
Developing
Company:
Castle Howard Farm Shop
Location:
York
Sector:
Groceries
Assessment date:
20 October 2026
Reference:
CI-AI-2026-937201
Directory Status:
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Executive Business Summary

Current score
27/100
AI readiness
Developing
AI visibility
Low
Local discoverability
Low
Improvement potential
High

This business has several strong foundations for AI-powered search, but our assessment identified areas preventing AI systems from understanding the organisation as confidently as they could.

AI Readiness Benchmark

Independently assessed

9 points below the Groceries average.

Castle Howard Farm Shop scores the same as or higher than 23% of assessed businesses in its sector.

Groceries

Sector · 274 businesses assessed
Rank 213 of 274
Castle Howard Farm Shop
27Average
36Top score
69

Yorkshire

Region · 7,678 businesses assessed
Rank 6,306 of 7,678
Castle Howard Farm Shop
27Average
39Top score
89
All bars run from 0 to 100.

Compared against businesses in the UK AI Readiness Index, not every business in the sector.

AI Search Readiness Score

Technical crawlability & indexability2/10
AI crawler accessibility3/8
Entity identification & business clarity0/12
Structured data quality0/12
Content answerability2/12
Topical depth & expertise5/10
Geographic & local relevance4/10
Trust, authority & verification7/10
Technical performance & user experience2/8
AI discoverability & machine comprehension2/8
Overall27/100

AI Business Profile

Business name
Castle Howard Farm Shop
Sector
Groceries
Location
York
Geographic coverage
York, Coneysthorpe
Customer profile
Customers in and around York, Coneysthorpe looking for a trusted provider of groceries services.
Primary services identified
Location Filming

AI systems currently have very limited confidence understanding this business and are unlikely to recommend it in its current state.

How AI Currently Sees This Business

AI confidently understands
  • This business operates in the Groceries sector.
  • This business serves customers in York.
  • This business offers location filming.
AI is less certain about
  • robots.txt does not name any AI crawler individually — they are only covered by the catch-all rule.
  • Only 1 of 10 pages checked canonicalise to themselves.
  • 5 of 9 internal links we followed returned a direct 200.
  • No sitemap was found.
  • No substantial llms.txt was found at the site root.
  • No single phone number and address appear consistently across the site.

Key Issues Identified

High Priority
Your robots.txt does not name the AI crawlers individually
A technical barrier is limiting how AI crawlers reach this site.
High Priority
Your pages do not declare their own canonical URL
High Priority
Some links on your site do not resolve on the first attempt
An improvement opportunity was identified.
High Priority
No sitemap listing your pages was found
High Priority
You have no llms.txt file
High Priority
Your name, address and phone number are not consistent across pages

Improvement Potential

Current score
27
Potential to improve visibility
High

We have identified 41 actions that could strengthen this website's AI readiness.

16
High-priority issues
16
Medium-priority issues
9
Low-priority issues

Improvement Roadmap

Your complete roadmap has been generated.

  • Detailed technical recommendations
  • Structured-data implementation guidance
  • Entity improvements
  • Content recommendations
  • Trust-signal improvements
  • AI crawler recommendations
  • Prioritised implementation order
  • Where the biggest visibility gains are

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About

Castle Howard Farm Shop offers a variety of groceries and food options. It is located in York, serving the local community and visitors.

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Services

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Location Filming

Service areas

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

YorkConeysthorpe

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