Straight answers
to the questions people actually ask.

I don't bill hourly. Every step has a fixed price or a fixed-scope quote. Hourly billing creates wrong incentives when AI compresses days into seconds.

Yes. It runs live in about 20 seconds across 7 checks, no card, no signup required. It exists so you can see what the engine catches before you pay for anything.

An agent fleet does the volume scan, then I review every finding and judge what actually matters. One flat price, one ranked report. It lands within 48 hours of repo access or it’s free, you get a full refund within 7 days if it was not worth it, and anything in scope we should have caught that shows up within 30 days, I fix at no charge.

You get a ranked report: what is exposed right now, what is urgent, what can wait. If there is dangerous findings, I quote a Ship Fix to close them. If it is clean, you are done, or you move to Continuum to stay that way.

Fixed scope, from $4K depending on what the Ship Check turned up. Days, not weeks. Every fix ships with a re-runnable proof it is actually closed.

Ongoing coverage after the check and the fix. Monitoring and fixes from $500/mo, up to a partner retainer, a senior engineer in every critical loop. See /continuum for details.

Yes. Book a free 30-minute call any time; I'll tell you honestly which step fits, or whether none of them do yet.

Leak Check is instant. Ship Check comes back within 48 hours of repo access, or it’s free. Ship Fix and Continuum start as soon as scope is agreed, usually within a few days.

Yes, mutual. Standard language. Happy to use yours.

Yes, two offers. The AI Answer Check ($99 (intro price through Saturday, October 10; regular $299)) is a one-time report on whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini name your business and who they name instead. Get Users (from $500/mo) is the ongoing monthly work of getting you named. Full detail: /does-chatgpt-recommend-my-business and /get-users.

$99 (intro price through Saturday, October 10; regular $299). You get one report: whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini name your business across 12 to 15 of your buyers' questions, asked 3 times each, who they name instead, any wrong fact an AI states about you (like a price or a service you don't offer), and the three fixes worth the most. It is for any business or product owner who wants to know what AI tools say about them before paying for anything else. Limits: no one can guarantee what ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini will say, and the check is not included in any other plan, it is its own report. Order online in about two minutes at /does-chatgpt-recommend-my-business/buy, no call needed, or book it with an optional 20-minute kickoff call. Delivered within 3 business days of your completed order, or it's free; a full refund within 7 days if it wasn't useful, and you keep the report either way.

New clients start on the Proving rate, $500/mo, month to month, while we prove the method works for you. Once a written goal is hit on 2 weekly checks in a row, you move to the Founding Client rate, $999/mo, locked for life. Standard rate for new clients is $1,999/mo. 3 of 5 Founding Client spots left. Included: the listings, Reddit replies drafted for your own account, "best of" list outreach, and page rewrites, done for you with your weekly approval (or by you from the same list, same price), plus a weekly scoreboard of what AI says about you. It is for a local business, attraction, service business or live software product whose customers ask AI before they buy. Limits: month to month with no minimum term, no guaranteed results, no ad spend included, and no free trial. Starts with a call: /book or see /get-users for the full detail.

Keep it running is $500/mo: monitoring, patching and incident cover for a product that is already live. A full Partner retainer runs Keep-alive $500/mo, Care $2,000/mo, Build $4,500/mo, Fast $8,000/mo, Dedicated $10,000/mo across five levels, the same person at every level, from monitoring up to acting as a technical cofounder across your apps. It is for a founder or business that wants one senior engineer accountable for the product over time instead of hiring a team. Limits: month to month, step up or down or cancel any time. See /partner for what each level includes and how to start.

The Deadline Sprint: $3,500 one-time, two weeks of focused work on what AI says about you, measured on day 0 and again on day 14 so the before and after are both real numbers. It is for a business with a specific date already on the calendar. It can step down into Get Users afterward. See /citation-movement-sprint to start.

No. Every fix is reviewed by me before you see it. The agent fleet produces volume; I apply judgment. If a diff drifts, looks brittle, or cuts a corner, it gets rejected and redone. Nothing autonomous touches main, ever.

You do. Always. Repo stays yours, history stays clean, rollback is always possible.

Least-privilege, read-only access to run the audit. Nothing touches your production data or your main branch during the check itself.

Yes, if you have the time and technical judgment to scope the work, review the output, catch edge cases, and safely merge it. Ship Check and Ship Fix are for founders who want a second set of eyes without becoming the reviewer, architect, and QA layer themselves.

JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby. React, Next.js, Node, Django, Rails. Postgres, Redis. Hosting on Vercel, Render, Fly, AWS. Mobile and embedded I refer out unless it's hybrid.

Yes. I run a parallel workstream against your team's branch model. We agree on owned files and conventions up front. No stepping on each other's commits.

No 24/7 on-call. If your prod is on fire right now, I do scoped recovery through Ship Fix, not war-room engineering.