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Status 218

Creative and Design Β· York

AI Readiness Certificate

Independently assessed by Code Inclusive
AI Readiness Score
65 / 100
Exceptional
πŸ… Advanced AI Ready
Company:
Status 218
Location:
York
Sector:
Creative and Design
Assessment date:
20 October 2026
Reference:
CI-AI-2026-651357
Directory Status:
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Executive Business Summary

Current score
65/100
AI readiness
Exceptional
AI visibility
High
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

25 points above the Creative and Design average.

Status 218 scores the same as or higher than 95% of assessed businesses in its sector.

Creative and Design

Sector Β· 470 businesses assessed
Rank 26 of 470
Status 218
65Average
40Top score
81

Yorkshire

Region Β· 7,678 businesses assessed
Rank 263 of 7,678
Status 218
65Average
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 & indexability10/10
AI crawler accessibility5/8
Entity identification & business clarity8/12
Structured data quality8/12
Content answerability5/12
Topical depth & expertise8/10
Geographic & local relevance9/10
Trust, authority & verification3/10
Technical performance & user experience5/8
AI discoverability & machine comprehension4/8
Overall65/100

AI Business Profile

Business name
Status 218
Sector
Creative and Design
Location
York
Geographic coverage
York, North Yorkshire, West Haddlesey, Yorkshire
Customer profile
Customers in and around York, North Yorkshire, West Haddlesey, Yorkshire looking for a trusted provider of creative and design services.
Primary services identified
Website designCustom softwareHostingCustom Software DevelopmentWeb DesignWeb Hosting

AI systems currently have moderate confidence understanding this business β€” several gaps make confident recommendations less likely.

How AI Currently Sees This Business

AI confidently understands
  • This business operates in the Creative and Design sector.
  • This business serves customers in North Yorkshire.
  • This business offers website design.
  • This business offers custom software.
AI is less certain about
  • robots.txt does not name any AI crawler individually β€” they are only covered by the catch-all rule.
  • The site does not link to any third-party review profile a reader could check.
  • 0 of 32 images declare their size, which prevents layout shift.
  • 0 of 10 pages checked have exactly one H1 and a clean heading structure.
  • Pages do not mark which part is the main content, so navigation and footer are indistinguishable from it.
  • No contact page offers both a tel: and a mailto: link a machine can follow.

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
You do not link to any independent review profile
Independent trust signals are limited.
High Priority
Your images do not declare their dimensions
An improvement opportunity was identified.
High Priority
Your heading structure is inconsistent
Page content does not clearly state what this business does.
High Priority
Your pages do not mark where the main content is
Medium Priority
Your contact details are not in links a machine can follow

Improvement Potential

Current score
65
Potential to improve visibility
High

We have identified 17 actions that could strengthen this website's AI readiness.

5
High-priority issues
6
Medium-priority issues
6
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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Website: status218.com

About

Status 218 is a digital marketing agency and web design company based in York. They provide services such as website design, custom software development, and web hosting to help businesses grow.

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Services

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Website designCustom softwareHostingCustom Software DevelopmentWeb DesignWeb HostingCygnus Resilience / Website OverhaulKWSB Resolve / New Wordpress website

Service areas

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

YorkNorth YorkshireWest HaddleseyYorkshire

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