When patients ask AI,
can it find your practice?
Citevio focuses specifically on cosmetic dentistry and Invisalign practices in the United States. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews for the best Invisalign provider in your city, the answer is a short list of names. Citevio checks whether your practice is named, documents missing or inaccurate information, and works on the sources behind those answers. No agency controls which practice an engine recommends.
Illustrative example. Run the free instant check below to see where your clinic actually stands.
Is AI search really replacing Google for finding a dentist?
AI search adds another way to find a practice; it does not make your Google presence obsolete. Google says established SEO practices remain relevant to AI Overviews and AI Mode. Measure the answers alongside the search visibility you already track.
Google shows up. Ten years later, the Yellow Pages are in the recycling bin. The dentists who took Google seriously early sat on page one for years. Everyone else spent the next decade paying for ads to catch up.
Google changes its own game: AI Overviews start answering questions at the top of the page, above the links. AI Overviews also link to supporting websites.Google · AI Overviews rollout · 2024
OpenAI reported 900 million weekly ChatGPT users, and its usage study classified about half of consumer messages as seeking information or advice. These are broad adoption findings, not a measurement of how many patients choose a dentist through AI.OpenAI · 2026 · OpenAI × NBER · 2025
SEO was a race to be one of ten links. GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — is the race to be the answer itself. Early is a strategy. Late is a bill.
AI doesn't rank clinics. It picks them.
Every engine assembles its answer from public signals, and the signals differ per engine. This is the supply chain behind the recommendation, and where most clinics silently fall out of it.
ChatGPT
Separate search access from training.OpenAI distinguishes OAI-SearchBot, used for ChatGPT search, from GPTBot, used for training. You can allow search access while declining training access. We check search-crawler access and the sources in the actual answers; a Bing listing alone does not prove that ChatGPT will name your practice. OpenAI crawler guidance.
Google Gemini
Check the profile and the actual answer.We check your Google Business Profile, website and the sources Gemini actually shows. Accurate services, location and hours matter to the patient reading them; profile completeness alone is not evidence that Gemini recommends the practice.
Perplexity
Inspect the sources it cites.In Seer Interactive's 2026 study of non-dental brands, three in four dated pages cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity were updated within the past year, more than half of those within the last three months. Pages last updated more than three years ago made up 7% of that dated set. This observation does not establish a Perplexity ranking rule or show that changing a date earns a citation.
Ahrefs found a stronger association between web mentions and brand visibility in Google AI Overviews than between backlinks and that visibility: correlation 0.664 vs 0.218 (2025). Correlation does not establish cause. Muck Rack's May 2026 analysis attributed more than 80% of citations in its sample to sources it classified as earned media; that is not a dental recommendation rate. The full breakdown of what makes AI cite a source goes deeper than these two numbers.
From invisible to recommended, in five moves.
No magic — a supply chain. Every plan runs on our own Citation-to-Chair Protocol: six layers that carry a clinic from "the engine can't read you" to "the citation booked a patient." Here are the five you'll see us work in front of you. See all six layers →
See what AI says today
We test your clinic across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews with real patient queries, screenshot the answers, and audit the layer underneath: crawler access, schema, Bing presence, profile, reviews.
Make yourself readable
We check access to your website, repair crawler barriers where appropriate, add structured data that matches visible services and practice details, check Bing indexing, and correct relevant listings. Access and markup make information available; they do not guarantee a recommendation.
Reviews that keep pace
Recommended businesses tend to carry strong, recent reviews. The Review Engine invites real patients to leave honest reviews: nobody filtered by satisfaction, no fake reviews and no incentives.
Answer-ready content
Treatment pages and FAQs written the way engines quote: the answer first, visible dates, data tables, honest community presence. Depth, not article volume.
Monthly before/after
Screenshots across all four engines, the exact queries tested, and the list of what we shipped. If it moved, you'll see it. If it didn't, you'll see that too. This is also what decides which layer gets worked on next — see the full protocol.
See where you stand today.
The free instant check shows your AI-readiness score in seconds.
Daily checks.
Documented answers.
Your questions × 4 engines × 30 days. A single answer records one observation. Repeated checks help distinguish a recurring finding from a result that changed between runs.
The questions are yours — your city, your treatments, agreed before the work starts, never a generic list. Seeing who gets named instead of you is in every plan; asking dedicated competitor questions and countering them monthly is part of Dominance.
Fresh five-star signals. The legal way.
We track rating, review volume and recency without treating them as a formula for AI recommendations. Our workflow invites real patients to share honest experiences; nobody is filtered out based on satisfaction.
Averages of what gets recommended, not cutoffs. SOCi findings reported in January 2026.
- Write or post fake reviews. The linked federal civil-penalty schedule lists $53,088 per violation for 2025; it is not a quote of the current maximum
- "Review gating": filtering out unhappy patients violates Google's policy and risks your profile
- Buy, trade or incentivize reviews in any form
Published pricing. Clear scope.
An Invisalign case typically runs $5,000–$8,000; three to four veneers, $2,775–$10,000 — national averages that move with your market and the case itself (Synchrony/ASQ360, 2023; CareCredit). Citevio exists to make your clinic the name AI gives when that patient asks.
Visibility
Get read by AI. The foundation.
Protocol layers 1–2 (Read, Match) · what this means
- Baseline: what all 4 engines say about you today, with screenshots
- Technical repair: AI-crawler access, structured data, Bing indexing
- Google Business Profile rebuilt and maintained
- Data-source presence: the listings engines actually read
- Baseline technical search maintenance: classic SEO isn't sold as a separate line item — it lives inside Layer 2 (Match) of the protocol, in every plan
- 3,600 AI answers analyzed every month — your 30 questions, asked on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, every single day
- Monthly citation report with screenshots and the exact prompts tested
Authority
Get recommended, again and again.
Protocol layers 1–4 (Read → Answer) · what this means
- Everything in Visibility, raised to 5,400 AI answers a month — 45 questions instead of 30
- The Review Engine: honest review invitations, with no filtering by satisfaction or incentives
- Answer-ready pages: treatment & FAQ content engines can quote
- Freshness cycle: substantive updates when treatment information or evidence changes
- Community & earned mentions: real, never bought
Dominance
Own the AI answer in your metro.
Protocol layers 1–5 (Read → Chair), the full protocol · what this means
- Everything in Authority, raised to 7,200 AI answers a month — 60 questions, competitor queries included
- City exclusivity, in the contract: competing cosmetic and Invisalign practices locked out
- Competitor watch: who AI recommends instead of you, countered monthly
- Priority delivery, expanded content, YouTube answer videos
- Quarterly strategy review (recorded video, async)
If you pay now: your first payment covers the one-time setup fee plus your first billing period. We then email you within one business day, to the exact address you enter at checkout — please watch that inbox and your spam folder, because we cannot start your setup until you reply.
If it doesn't work, your setup fee comes back.
On every plan45 days after we confirm your setup is complete, at least two of the four engines have to have named your practice in one of the commercial-intent questions we agreed with you at onboarding. If they haven't, we refund your one-time setup fee in full — and everything we built stays yours either way.
Judged by the same daily scan your monthly report comes from, so you can check it yourself. Full wording, including what voids it, is in section 8 of the Terms.
This refunds the setup fee if the bar above is missed; it is not a promise that any specific engine names you. Why no honest agency can offer that promise is explained in why no one can guarantee an AI recommendation.
By starting a plan you agree to our Terms of Service. The setup fee is non-refundable once setup work has begun, except under the guarantee above. · Compare with the wider market: what GEO for a dental clinic costs →
Promises are cheap. Systems aren't.
Any agency can say "trust us." We'd rather show you the machine.
The system is also backed by research a buyer can inspect rather than a private claim. Citevio's June 2026 dataset covers 527 US dental practice websites across seven metros and nine nearby towns. A separate Citevio dataset covers 6,497 readable US dental practice robots.txt files, read on 22 July 2026 across 13 AI and data crawlers. Citevio's dental market research is published openly under CC-BY-4.0 with a DOI, so the numbers can be checked and reused; client data is never published. The permanent DOI is 10.5281/zenodo.23143214.
Sources that never sit still
The engines change constantly, so our system re-tests them on a loop and the playbook updates with them — not a quarter later. Your report records what was checked, what changed and the evidence behind the next task.
A plan you can inspect
Crawler access, data sources, review signals, content structure, refresh windows — mapped per engine, in writing, before we start. Ask another agency for their plan, then ask for ours. That comparison is our favourite sales pitch.
Receipts, not fairy tales
Monthly before/after screenshots, the exact queries tested, an itemised list of what shipped — and zero fantasy numbers about rankings or patient counts. Reporting honest enough to fire us with, plus a setup fee we hand back if fewer than two engines have named you in 45 days.
Async and compliant
No sales calls and no standing meetings: recorded walkthroughs and written reports keep the work documented. Every tactic is designed to follow FTC and Google policies.
Questions, answered straight.
No agency can guarantee that an AI engine will name a practice, and Citevio does not offer that guarantee. AI placement cannot be bought; there is no paid slot in an AI recommendation. Citevio does not guarantee placement, but it does guarantee the fee: if at least two of the four engines have not named the practice in one of the commercial-intent questions agreed at onboarding within 45 days of confirmed setup, the setup fee is refunded in full. You keep the setup work either way. Full wording is in section 8 of our Terms of Service.
The free check is immediate. The technical layers — crawler access, structured data, index health — usually resolve within weeks. Movement in what the engines actually say takes longer, because they have to re-read and re-trust the practice: our setup-fee guarantee is written against a 45-day window for a first naming, and change across the wider question set is a matter of months rather than days. You get before/after reporting from the first cycle, so you can see the direction long before the finish line.
Citevio measures visibility on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. We keep the answers and cited sources separate by engine rather than assuming the same evidence produces the same result everywhere.
No. Ads are beginning to appear around AI answers, but the recommendation itself isn't for sale. Engines assemble it from public signals: index presence, reviews, mentions, site structure. The answer can't be bought. It can be earned, systematically.
Three things.
- Our own data. We run our own engine scans and keep every result. Our advice comes from measurements we made, not marketing blogs.
- Sources that stay current. Our system re-tests the engines on a loop; when they change, the playbook changes with them.
- Full-fat packages. Review automation, competitor monitoring, content refreshes: things others sell as paid add-ons are built into the plans.
Never. Citevio is async by design: you get short recorded video walkthroughs, written reports and a dashboard. Questions are answered in writing, usually within one business day.
The workflow is designed around honest invitations to real patients: no filtering by satisfaction, fake reviews or incentives. This is a description of the workflow, not a legal guarantee. The linked Federal Register schedule lists $53,088 per violation, the civil-penalty amount published in January 2025; it should not be read as the current maximum. Google's review policies also apply.
There are two limits and they are different. Across all plans, Citevio works with a maximum of three cosmetic or Invisalign practices per US state at any one time; when a state reaches three it closes to new clients until a slot opens. That is a capacity limit: every account is run personally by the founder rather than handed to an account manager, and the cap is what keeps it that way. On the Dominance plan it goes further: we contractually commit to working with only one cosmetic/Invisalign practice in your metro area for as long as you're an active client. Your competitors cannot hire us. One city, one clinic.
It is our published method, and every plan runs on it. Six layers, run as a loop: Discover, the question set patients actually ask; Read, whether an engine can crawl and parse the site at all; Match, whether it can connect the practice to the right question; Trust, whether it will say the name out loud; Answer, whether there is a sentence worth quoting; and Chair, whether the citation turns into an appointment. Whichever layer the daily measurement shows breaking most often is the layer we work next. The full method is published — including the parts a competitor could copy.
SEO works on visibility in search results; GEO focuses on whether a practice is named or cited in AI answers. Layers 1 and 2 of our protocol share foundations with SEO, including crawl access and accurate practice details. For AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google says established SEO practices remain relevant and no special AI schema is required. This guidance covers Google Search, not every assistant. More: dental SEO vs GEO.
Yes, and it is free. The instant check reads your website and scores it in seconds. The free deep scan goes further: we ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews the questions patients in your city would actually ask about practices like yours, then send you the real queries, screenshots, the competitors named instead of you, and a short recorded walkthrough of where you stand. No call, ever.
Yes, anywhere in the US. The work happens on signals that are read online, so distance is not a constraint. Two limits are: a maximum of three cosmetic or Invisalign practices per state at any one time, and on the Dominance plan, one practice per metro. What we need from you is local — your treatments, your city, and the questions your front desk actually fields.
No. Patient names, phone numbers, appointment times and treatment details never reach us. That is written into our agreement rather than offered as reassurance: review invitations go out from your own appointment system, under your own account, in your practice's name. What we do ask for at onboarding is a short factual record — accepted insurances, hours, price ranges, whether you are taking new patients — because without it there is no such thing as a wrong AI answer, only one we happen to disagree with.
Usually not. Most of what an engine needs is already on the site; it is either unreadable to crawlers or missing the specific answer a patient asked for. We work with the site you have, and if something genuinely has to change we tell you what and why before touching it. Every answer-ready page we write is built for the patient reading it first and structured for the engine second — a page that only works for crawlers gets neither.
Cosmetic and Invisalign practices in the United States, and nothing else. The narrowness is deliberate: the questions patients ask about veneers, implants and clear aligners are specific, and the published city baselines your result is compared against are dental. If a prospect is outside that, we say so rather than take the work.
The month's delivery is whichever layer the measurement says is breaking, rather than a fixed checklist. Alongside it you get a report showing which questions named your practice and which named a competitor, every finding written with its ratio — named in two of three runs on this date, not named at all — what moved since last month, an AI-sourced line drawn from the booking form, and what we are fixing next. Short recorded video walkthroughs instead of meetings.
AI answers can vary between runs. Profound's 2025 analysis of roughly 80,000 prompts per engine found that about 40 to 60% of cited source domains were new between the study's monthly observation windows. That is a vendor study of source domains, not a dental-practice naming rate. We send every question in the tracked set to all four engines across at least three separate runs and report the ratio of observed mentions. A different result on a rerun is recorded rather than hidden.
That is the more urgent half, and we measure it separately. A missing mention is an absence; a wrong answer is a leak. Alongside the visibility set we run a smaller set that asks about the practice by name — insurance accepted, opening hours, price ranges, location, whether you are taking new patients — and sort every answer into correct, wrong, stale, or gap. An engine that says it does not know is honest and low risk. An engine that fills the gap with something plausible is recorded as wrong, because that is what it is.
No one can sell that, and we will not pretend otherwise. Google states that knowledge panels are automatically generated; there is no application form and no date anyone can put on it. What we can build is the conditions: the legal name published in your structured data, the Secretary of State filing and public registry record matched character for character, and third-party sources carrying the same details. Graph presence follows from those or it does not. We price it as the work, never as the outcome.
Pricing is published openly rather than quoted on a call: Visibility at $1,400 per month, Authority at $2,900 per month and Dominance at $5,500 per month. Every plan runs the same Citation-to-Chair Protocol; what changes is how much of the trust and answer layers we work each month, and Dominance adds the contractual one-practice-per-metro commitment. Review automation, competitor monitoring and content refreshes are built into the plans rather than sold as add-ons.
No. No bought links, private blog networks, fake or incentivised reviews, or mass-produced pages. We document the work shipped so you can review the sources and methods yourself.
Every account is run personally by the founder, Muhammed Veysel Erin, rather than handed to an account manager — and the three-practices-per-state cap exists to keep it that way. You are never passed to someone who has not read your measurements.
The rest of this site, in four questions.
Everything we publish sits under one of these four hubs, and each hub links on to the pages beneath it.
Why isn't my practice showing up?
Why isn't my dental practice showing up in ChatGPT — how an AI answer gets assembled, and what decides which practices get named.
How do I get recommended?
How to get my practice recommended by ChatGPT — the technical access, structured data and reputation work, step by step.
Does this apply to cosmetic and Invisalign?
AI visibility for Invisalign and cosmetic practices — what changes when the treatment is elective and the search is high-intent.
What does my city look like?
AI visibility reports by city for dentists — every metro report we have published, plus the cross-metro comparison.
Who is behind all of this: about Citevio — the company details, the founder, and the methodology every number on this site is measured with.
See where your clinic stands. Right now.
Two free steps. Step one reads your website and scores it in seconds. Step two shows you what the engines actually say about you — and who they name instead.
Tool not loading? Request the free 48-hour scan instead, or open the full-page checker directly.
Then see what AI actually says about you.
The instant check reads your website. The free deep scan goes further. We test what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews answer when patients ask about clinics like yours: real queries, screenshots, the competitors AI names instead of you, and a short video walkthrough of exactly where you stand. No call, ever.
Free · delivered by email · no spam, no call. Just your report.