A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

A Separate State of Mind is a business whose own site puts it this way: "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is partially visible, scoring 6.3 out of 10, readable in places and missing in others.

On the page it is passable on a workable page structure, a few credibility markers, basic crawler access and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is a clearly stated business identity and structured data describing the business.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it and people discuss it in places AI engines read. 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 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). It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together.