Future Tense by A.Z. Mackay

"Writer of literary speculative fiction and the Future Tense essays, on what happens when people build systems more powerful than the institutions meant to contain them." That is how Future Tense by A.Z. Mackay introduces itself. When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.2 out of 10.

On its own pages the site does well on crawler access and the files AI engines look for. What holds it back is structured data describing the business, a clearly stated business identity, credibility markers like credentials or reviews, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow and a heading structure that lays out what it offers.

Off the page there is only faint evidence that only a handful of sites link to it and the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. None of that can be fixed on the page: it has to be earned.

AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.