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Hedley Hydraulics

Industrial · Wakefield

AI Readiness Certificate

Independently assessed by Code Inclusive
AI Readiness Score
47 / 100
Advanced
Company:
Hedley Hydraulics
Location:
Wakefield
Sector:
Industrial
Assessment date:
22 October 2026
Reference:
CI-AI-2026-974125
Directory Status:
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Executive Business Summary

Current score
47/100
AI readiness
Advanced
AI visibility
Medium
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 above the Industrial average.

Hedley Hydraulics scores the same as or higher than 79% of assessed businesses in its sector.

Industrial

Sector · 429 businesses assessed
Rank 91 of 429
Hedley Hydraulics
47Average
38Top score
78

Yorkshire

Region · 7,678 businesses assessed
Rank 1,922 of 7,678
Hedley Hydraulics
47Average
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 & indexability7/10
AI crawler accessibility3/8
Entity identification & business clarity6/12
Structured data quality5/12
Content answerability5/12
Topical depth & expertise4/10
Geographic & local relevance3/10
Trust, authority & verification3/10
Technical performance & user experience7/8
AI discoverability & machine comprehension4/8
Overall47/100

AI Business Profile

Business name
Hedley Hydraulics
Sector
Industrial
Location
Wakefield
Geographic coverage
Wakefield
Customer profile
Businesses and organisations in and around Wakefield looking for a trusted provider of industrial services.
Primary services identified
Accumulator Service CentreFlushing Rig HireInstallationHydraulic Cylinder RepairsCylinder RepairHPU Refurbishment

AI systems currently have limited confidence understanding this business due to multiple gaps in the information available.

How AI Currently Sees This Business

AI confidently understands
  • This business operates in the Industrial sector.
  • This business serves customers in Wakefield.
  • This business offers accumulator service centre.
  • This business offers flushing rig hire.
AI is less certain about
  • robots.txt does not name any AI crawler individually — they are only covered by the catch-all rule.
  • A sitemap was declared but lists no pages on this site.
  • No substantial llms.txt was found at the site root.
  • No company registration number is published, so the business cannot be matched to a public register.
  • The structured data carries no phone number or address for a machine to read.
  • No question is posed as a heading and then answered in the text beneath it.

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
No sitemap listing your pages was found
High Priority
You have no llms.txt file
An improvement opportunity was identified.
High Priority
Your company registration number is not published
High Priority
Your structured data carries no phone number or address
The site’s machine-readable business data is incomplete.
High Priority
Your headings do not pose questions your customers ask
Common customer questions are not answered directly on the site.

Improvement Potential

Current score
47
Potential to improve visibility
High

We have identified 27 actions that could strengthen this website's AI readiness.

8
High-priority issues
12
Medium-priority issues
7
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

Hedley Hydraulics provides precision hydraulic solutions with over 50 years of experience. Based in Wakefield, they offer services such as accumulator servicing, cylinder repairs, and flushing rig hire.

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Services

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Accumulator Service CentreFlushing Rig HireInstallationHydraulic Cylinder RepairsCylinder RepairHPU RefurbishmentSmall or large scale product repairs

Service areas

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Wakefield

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