See exactly where
AI ignores you.

Who is Icarus Works?

We're an AI-visibility firm. We measure how the AI engines your buyers now use — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude — answer the questions people ask before they hire, and whether they recommend you or a competitor. Then we hand you the exact fixes to close the gaps. Every finding traces to a real AI answer we captured. No opinions, no generic checklists.

What exactly do I get for $1,500?

One flat price, one complete audit: your real buyer questions run through every AI engine with the verbatim answers, a competitor citation map (who AI names instead of you and why), a structured-data and entity gap analysis, your keyword and question universe with real volumes, and a prioritized fix roadmap with your AI Visibility Score — delivered inside your own Command Center. $1,500 single-location, $3,000 multi-location. No tiers, no industry markup. And if you start a plan within 15 days, the full audit price is credited off your first month.

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Is there a guarantee?

Yes — stated plainly. Every deliverable is QA-scored before it reaches you. You pay the audit and the monthly plan — nothing else: there is no separate implementation or setup fee, ever. And you see your full plan and price before anything begins. Every finding is backed by a real query we ran against the engines themselves — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Google AI Overviews — never a simulation. The one thing we don't guarantee is a specific ranking or citation — those depend on the AI engines, which no one controls. What we guarantee is real work, delivered fast, that shows you exactly where you stand and what to fix.

How long does it take?

It's fully automated — no call, no scheduling. Your audit is in your inbox within the next 12 hours — most are delivered the same day. You get a one-click link straight into your Command Center, and the audit is yours to keep.

What if you don't find much wrong?

No business ranks for everything — not even the market leader. The audit evaluates the best search terms and buyer questions in your industry, and there are always answers you're winning, answers you're losing, and answers nobody in your market owns yet. If you're ahead, the work shifts from catching up to staying there: AI answers reshuffle constantly as engines re-index, and share of voice is maintained, not won once — protecting your moat while competitors work to take it is exactly what the monthly plan is for. Either way you leave with a prioritized plan: what to fix, what to extend, and what to protect — never padded busywork.

Why is there a 3-month minimum on the plan, and when will I see results?

Because it's the shortest honest window in which the work can prove itself. Implementation is fast — it typically begins within about 3 days of onboarding and your roadmap is built out quickly — but measurable movement in AI answers and search typically takes around 90 days, because the engines re-crawl and re-rank on their own schedule and the gains compound over time. A shorter commitment literally can't show whether the work moved your visibility, so we don't pretend it can. From day one you see every fix ship in your Command Center and we re-test your visibility across every engine each month — you're never waiting 90 days to see that the work is happening, only for it to fully compound. After the 3-month minimum, the plan continues month to month.

Why does everything start with the audit?

Because we don't guess. We can't implement what we haven't measured — and neither can anyone else, honestly. The audit captures how every AI engine answers your buyers' real questions today, who gets cited instead of you, and exactly why. That evidence becomes your roadmap and your exact plan price — the audit IS the quote. And it's yours outright: implement it yourself, hand it to another agency, or have us do it. No lock-in either way.

Do you sell backlinks or PR?

No — and that's deliberate, not a gap. AI engines cite the clearest, most verifiable answer in a market, not the biggest link graph. Our own site is cited by AI engines in one of the most competitive categories there is — AI search optimization itself — with zero purchased backlinks and zero PR retainers. That's the method we sell. If you ever want link-building or PR on top, your audit and roadmap work with any vendor you choose.

I'm a small local business — is this overkill for me?

Not at all — local businesses are exactly who this is built for. When someone asks ChatGPT or Google AI who to hire in your city, the engine names a handful of businesses and the rest are invisible. The audit is one flat $1,500 for every industry and every size, and monthly plans are scoped to your actual market — a single-location local business pays for a single-location local plan, nothing more.

Is this just SEO?

No. SEO chases blue links and rankings. We optimize for being the cited answer inside AI engines — a different discipline with different signals. The audit shows exactly where you stand and what to change to get named.

Do you need access to my site?

Not for the audit — it's run entirely from the outside, the same way the AI engines see you, so there's nothing to install and nothing to hand over. If you choose done-for-you implementation, then yes — real implementation means real changes published to your site, and we set that up during onboarding: most sites just add our one-line snippet (about five minutes — we verify it's live for you), or we connect directly to your platform, or we work with your web person and hand them exactly what to install. Whatever the route, nothing goes live without passing through the approval mode you choose.