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Ye Olde Black Boy

Pubs, Takeaways and Restaurants · Hull, East Yorkshire

AI Readiness Certificate

Independently assessed by Code Inclusive
AI Readiness Score
33 / 100
Established
Company:
Ye Olde Black Boy
Location:
Hull, East Yorkshire
Sector:
Pubs, Takeaways and Restaurants
Assessment date:
22 October 2026
Reference:
CI-AI-2026-755163
Directory Status:
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Executive Business Summary

Current score
33/100
AI readiness
Established
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

Level with the Pubs, Takeaways and Restaurants average. 33 points off the sector's best.

Ye Olde Black Boy scores the same as or higher than 56% of assessed businesses in its sector.

Pubs, Takeaways and Restaurants

Sector · 466 businesses assessed
Rank 207 of 466
Ye Olde Black Boy
33Average
33Top score
66

Yorkshire

Region · 7,420 businesses assessed
Rank 4,877 of 7,420
Ye Olde Black Boy
33Average
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 & indexability9/10
AI crawler accessibility4/8
Entity identification & business clarity2/12
Structured data quality5/12
Content answerability0/12
Topical depth & expertise0/10
Geographic & local relevance4/10
Trust, authority & verification0/10
Technical performance & user experience6/8
AI discoverability & machine comprehension3/8
Overall33/100

AI Business Profile

Business name
Ye Olde Black Boy
Sector
Pubs, Takeaways and Restaurants
Location
Hull, East Yorkshire
Geographic coverage
Hull, Kingston upon Hull
Customer profile
Homeowners and local businesses in and around Hull, Kingston upon Hull looking for a trusted provider of pubs, takeaways and restaurants services.
Primary services identified
Draught BeersHand-Pull BeersSpiritsFunction Room Hire

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 Pubs, Takeaways and Restaurants sector.
  • This business serves customers in Kingston upon Hull.
AI is less certain about
  • robots.txt does not name any AI crawler individually — they are only covered by the catch-all rule.
  • No single phone number and address appear consistently across the site.
  • No company registration number is published, so the business cannot be matched to a public register.
  • The contact details in the structured data do not match the ones shown on the page.
  • No question is posed as a heading and then answered in the text beneath it.
  • Only about 464 words of real content across the pages we checked, once navigation and footer are discounted.

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 name, address and phone number are not consistent across pages
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.
High Priority
There is little content on your site beyond the template
Page content does not clearly state what this business does.

Improvement Potential

Current score
33
Potential to improve visibility
High

We have identified 35 actions that could strengthen this website's AI readiness.

9
High-priority issues
17
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

Ye Olde Black Boy is Hull's oldest pub, offering a variety of draught beers, hand-pull beers, spirits, and non-alcoholic drinks. The pub features an intimate function room for small gatherings and is located in Kingston upon Hull.

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Services

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Draught BeersHand-Pull BeersSpiritsFunction Room Hire

Service areas

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

HullKingston upon Hull

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