In 2026, patients ask AI before they Google. If ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity cannot cleanly identify your practice, the enquiry goes to a competitor, and you never see it. The GROWTH Score™ measures exactly how well the machines can read you, and the free Snapshot shows you, in their own words, what they currently say.
A quiet change has moved patient decisions upstream of your marketing. The clinic that gets recommended is not always the strongest clinician. It is the one the machines can most clearly read.
ChatGPT alone is answering hundreds of millions of patient-shaped questions a week. Your ranking on page one still matters, but it is no longer where the enquiry begins.
It reads schema, citations, and how consistently the world describes you. When those signals are ambiguous, the recommendation quietly goes to whoever is easier to read.
Nothing in your clinical practice is broken. What is missing is the plumbing that lets a machine identify, verify and cite you. Every private clinic can be made citable, and most of the work happens once.
Three related but distinct practices. All three matter for a private clinic in 2026. Each measures a different way patients find you, and the GROWTH Program covers all three because your patients use all three.
Getting your website to rank in the classic blue-link results on Google, Bing and other search engines.
Getting your practice named when patients ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini for a recommendation.
Getting your content quoted inside AI-generated summaries that now sit above traditional search results.
Old-world SEO alone leaves you invisible in AI. New-world AEO alone leaves you invisible on Google. Doing one without the other is not a strategy; it is a gap. The GROWTH Score measures all three streams and moves them together.
Six pillars. One acronym. One score out of 100. Read our name down the left column and you'll see how the whole framework is stitched into the clinic that built it.
G · R · O · W · T · H
The clinic exists as one clean entity AI systems can resolve. Schema, NAP (Name, Address, Phone) consistency, Google Business Profile (GBP), matching identity across every platform patients and AI systems look.
AI crawlers can actually reach and parse the site. robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, sitemap, page speed, indexed content, no consent walls hiding you from a no-cookie visitor.
Content structured the way AI lifts and quotes answers. Heading hierarchy, dedicated service pages, answer-shaped opening paragraphs, real FAQ content, FAQPage and MedicalProcedure schema.
What neutral third parties say. Directories that matter for private medicine (Doctify, Top Doctors, WhatClinic in the UK; Healthgrades, Zocdoc, Vitals in the US; Jameda, DocPlanner in Europe; plus professional registers), reviews on independent platforms, editorial mentions, consistent details wherever AI looks.
The credentials, authorship, review volume and register-verified qualifications a liability-conscious AI needs before it will vouch for you. Regulated-sector work depends on this pillar more than any other.
The proof. When real patients ask real questions across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, does your clinic actually get named? Visibility rate, position, share of voice, branded accuracy: measured with live evidence.
How the overall score is read
Your Snapshot shows the actual answers ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity return when a patient asks for what you offer. When competitors are named and you are not, that is the argument. The AI's own words carry more weight than any framework we could describe.
Every check reflects how a regulated clinical practice actually gets seen, cited and trusted. Credentials, register verification, medical schema, E-E-A-T signals (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness), liability-safe language: not a bolt-on. The framework was written by Dr Andrew Greenland, and it shows in what it measures.
Two clinics scored on the same day get the same numbers. Every point is tagged to evidence: a schema block, a fetch result, a logged AI answer with tool and date. Versioned methodology means month-on-month movement is real, not spin.
A free diagnostic first, so we both know where you stand. Then a discovery call where we walk through the findings and, more importantly, discuss the solutions the Snapshot deliberately does not include. If the fit is right, we begin the working relationship.
Step 1 · Free
Delivered same day. No obligation. Names the problems, no solutions.
Step 2 · Free 45-min call
Typically 3-7 days after your Snapshot arrives.
Step 3 · From £999/mo
The working relationship begins. We execute; you watch the score move.
Nothing we do exists for its own sake. Every hour of work moves a specific pillar, which moves your overall GROWTH Score, which moves the number of AI conversations that end with your clinic named.
G · R · O · W · T · H






Every tier executes the same six-pillar GROWTH Program against the same versioned rubric and monthly dashboard refresh. What changes is depth, cadence, and how aggressively we compete for share of voice. Six-month initial term, rolling monthly thereafter. All prices exclude VAT or applicable local sales tax.
No custom quotes. No discounts. The packages are the packages. Multi-site groups and bespoke scope get a tailored proposal, but it will not be a cheaper version of these.
Single-location practices starting from a low or unknown GROWTH Score. Get the foundations in and start climbing the score.
Practices actively competing for share of voice in a busy local market. Reach the Ascend tier and hold your ground.
Practices playing at the top of their category, aiming to be the default AI answer. Become the clinic the machines name first.
All tiers include the same versioned GROWTH rubric, evidence-tagged scoring and monthly dashboard refresh. Multi-site practices, group networks and bespoke scope work: book a discovery call and we will build a proposal to fit.
Running the GROWTH Program in-house means hiring or contracting seven or eight separate specialists: clinical writers, technical SEOs, PR outreach agencies, Google Business Profile managers, prompt-tracking platforms, sentiment analysts, review-workflow builders. Here is what each tier would cost you if you assembled the same six-pillar programme yourself, benchmarked against published 2026 professional-service rates in the UK, US and EU markets.
Ignite
Ascend
Dominate
Tier-1 medical and dental clinic rebuild agencies routinely quote £8,000–£15,000+ (roughly $10,000–$18,000+) for standard scope. Same AEO-native specification, priced deliberately below tier-1 agencies because it is delivered as part of your GROWTH Program, not as a standalone commission.
| Setup deliverable | Retail | Ignite | Ascend | Dominate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-E-A-T + Retrievability audit | £600 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MedicalClinic + Physician schema build | £500 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Business Profile claim + optimisation | £300 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| robots.txt / sitemap / llms.txt configuration | £250 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Baseline prompt library | £200–£550 | 10 × 3 | 20 × 4 | 50 × 6 |
| Sentiment monitoring configuration | £300 | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wider Web target list build | £350 | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review acquisition workflow build | £400 | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Competitor deep-dive mapping | £500 | — | — | ✓ |
| Real-time alerting configuration | £300 | — | — | ✓ |
| Executive summary template build | £200 | — | — | ✓ |
| Retail setup value | £1,850 | £3,150 | £4,750 | |
| You pay | £1,500 | £2,500 | £3,500 | |
| Saving at signing | £350 | £650 | £1,250 |
| Monthly deliverable | Ignite | Ascend | Dominate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tracking (peec.ai + reporting) | £300 | £600 | £1,400 |
| Doctor-checked articles @ £350 each | £700 (2) | £1,400 (4) | £2,800 (8) |
| GBP monitoring + consistency check | £200 | £200 | — |
| GBP fully managed (posting + reviews) | — | — | £600 |
| Core directory verification | £150 | £150 | £200 |
| Wider Web outreach (citations, PR) | — | £800 | £1,200 |
| Editorial / podcast placement targeting | — | £400 | £600 |
| Review acquisition + doctor responses | — | £250 | £400 |
| Sentiment monitoring | — | £200 | £200 |
| Competitor displacement work | — | — | £500 |
| Ground Truth ongoing check | £100 | £100 | £100 |
| Strategy call + report | £200 | £350 | £600 |
| AI Overviews / AI Mode targeting | — | — | £500 |
| Video / podcast production (1 ep/mo) | — | — | £1,500 |
| Monthly executive summary | — | — | £300 |
| Real-time alerting + monitoring | — | — | £150 |
| Retail monthly value | £1,650 | £4,450 | £11,050 |
| You pay | £999 | £1,999 | £4,999 |
Retail rates benchmarked against published 2026 professional-service pricing for medical/healthcare SEO agencies, freelance clinical writers, Google Business Profile management, digital PR outreach, and full-service podcast production across the UK, US and EU markets. Rates are mid-market; enterprise and discount options exist at either end. All figures exclude VAT.
Every retainer tier can be extended with focused add-ons. Add them at signup or later as you see which pillar needs more depth. Nothing here is padding: each bolt-on maps to a specific GROWTH pillar or fills a gap the tiers deliberately leave out.
Foundational. From £4,499 base (up to 30 pages), £100 per additional page.
AI systems can only cite a website they can read, verify and trust. Most private clinic sites were built for a Google-first world, not an AI-first one, and retro-fitting only goes so far. Tier-1 medical/dental clinic rebuild agencies routinely quote £8,000–£15,000+ (roughly $10,000–$18,000+). Same specification, priced deliberately below tier-1 agencies because it is delivered as part of your GROWTH Program, not as a standalone commission.
Google + Meta, medical/dental specialist. Ad spend separate (typical £3,000–£10,000/mo).
Managed campaigns tied to your GROWTH-optimised pages so visibility work and paid acquisition stay accountable to the same team. Priced at the mid-upper end of specialist healthcare PPC agencies internationally, matching the compliance load medical advertising regulations impose across every jurisdiction we work in.
+2 doctor-checked articles per month
Simple scaling knob for the On-page Answers pillar. Each article: keyword and prompt research, drafted for AI answer extraction, clinical review, custom image, schema markup and publishing. Add multiple boosts to layer on more coverage.
1 episode per month, up to 30 minutes
Doctor-fronted video Q&A or podcast episode. Lifts On-page Answers, Trust and Wider Web Authority in a single workflow.
Ascend tier and above
Full local coverage for each additional practice location so multi-site groups scale cleanly.
Head-to-Head Visibility pillar
Add one AI platform to daily prompt tracking beyond your tier's default (Claude, Copilot, Meta AI or vertical-specific engines). Includes model-specific share-of-voice tracking and monthly reporting. Useful when your patients cluster on a specific platform.
Trust Signals pillar · included in Dominate tier
Direct lift on the Trust pillar and the AI descriptions of your clinic.
£1,499 up to 20 pages · £2,499 up to 50 pages · custom above
Full compliance sweep of your existing site content. Useful before launch, after a regulator query, or before scaling paid campaigns.
Start here without committing to a retainer
A focused strategic sprint that produces a full growth roadmap for your practice. Ideal if you want the strategic clarity of a retainer engagement without the ongoing commitment. Learn more →
Not sure which bolt-ons fit your Snapshot? Book a discovery call and we will map the right ones to the pillars your score most needs.
Generalist agencies cannot risk saying the wrong thing about medicine, so they say nothing specific. That absence of specificity is exactly what AI models penalise. Private clinics need the opposite: precise, verifiable, doctor-checked content that AI can safely quote. We work with private medical and dental practices across the UK, US and EU, adapting each engagement to the regulatory framework that applies to your jurisdiction.
Everything we publish respects the medical marketing rules of your jurisdiction: CQC, ASA, GMC and GDC in the UK; HIPAA and state medical boards in the US; national frameworks across the EU. No unsupported claims, no dubious testimonials.
MedicalClinic, Physician, MedicalProcedure, MedicalCondition schema, correctly nested. The kind of thing generic AEO agencies miss and AI systems punish you for.
Author bios, register numbers, dated content, sources cited. Every signal an AI needs to feel safe recommending you to a real patient.
Content passes a clinical read before it goes near your site. AI-drafted, doctor-approved, patient-safe.
Medical Doctor · Founder, The AI Growth Clinic
I built the GROWTH Score because AI visibility for regulated medicine cannot be treated as a marketing exercise. The machines are going to keep making patient recommendations whether we prepare for it or not. The clinics that will still be found in five years are the ones treating this as clinical infrastructure now. That is the framework, and that is the work.
Get your AI Visibility Snapshot delivered the same day. Six pillars, one honest score, and the real answers the machines are giving your prospective patients right now.