Queer STS

Queer STS is a business whose own site puts it this way: "This initial reading group gradually developed into a working group, growing in persons and spreading geographically, whose critique of heteronormative and binary gender concepts (i.e." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is close to invisible, scoring 2.9 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on basic crawler access. What holds it back is a heading structure that lays out what it offers, a clearly stated business identity, credibility markers like credentials or reviews, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow and structured data describing the business.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that 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. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

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