AI visibility · cosmetic & invisalign dentistry

Your next patients aren't Googling.
They're asking AI.

0–100 score in seconds · no email, no call

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini for the best Invisalign provider in your city, the answer is a short list of names. Either your clinic is on it, or a competitor is. Citevio makes sure it's you.

1.2%Share of business locations that show up in ChatGPT's local recommendations. The rest are invisible.SOCi · Local Visibility Index · 2026
4.4×AI search visitors are worth 4.4× the average traditional organic search visitor.Semrush · AI Search Study · 2025
≈49%Share of ChatGPT messages that seek information or advice to support a decision.OpenAI × NBER usage study · 2025
45%Share of US consumers who asked an AI tool for a local business recommendation in the past year, up from 6%.BrightLocal · Local Consumer Review Survey · 2026
 
AI answer · top recommendations
1. BrightSmile Dental Studiocited
2. Queen City Orthodonticscited
3. Uptown Smile Co.cited
Your clinicnot mentioned

Illustrative example. Run the free instant check below to see where your clinic actually stands.

The shift

This has happened before.

About once a generation, patients change how they pick a dentist. It happened with the phone book. It happened with Google. It's happening again right now.

1998

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.

2024

Google changes its own game: AI Overviews start answering questions at the top of the page, above the links. Even Google stopped betting on links.Google · AI Overviews rollout · 2024

2026

900 million people use ChatGPT every week, and about half of its messages seek information or advice to support a decision. Your next patient isn't scrolling ten links. They're reading one answer.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.

The mechanism

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

Reads Bing, not Google.

Builds local answers from Bing's index, Foursquare and directory data, plus what communities like Reddit say. If your site blocks AI crawlers or never made it into Bing, you don't exist here, no matter how good your Google rankings are.

4.3+rating it favors when recommending · SOCi 2026

Google Gemini

Lives on your Business Profile.

Pulls from the Google index, Maps and your Google Business Profile: categories, services, photos, review recency, Q&A. A half-finished profile reads as a half-real business.

≈4.5+rating it favors when recommending · industry analyses 2026

Perplexity

Cites fresh, structured proof.

Shows its sources, and prefers pages with visible dates, data tables and direct answers. About half of AI citations point to content updated within the last 13 weeks (Amsive, 2026). Stale pages quietly rotate out.

≈4.1+rating it favors when recommending · industry analyses 2026
What actually moves the answer: being talked about.

Brand mentions track AI citations far more closely than links do: correlation 0.664 vs 0.218 (Ahrefs, 2025). And more than 80% of what AI cites is earned coverage, not paid placement (Muck Rack, 2026). You can't buy the answer. You can earn it — on a system.

The system

From invisible to recommended, in five moves.

No magic. A supply chain: if the signals exist, the engines find them. We build the signals and show you the receipts every month.

01 — Diagnose

See what AI says today

We test your clinic across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini with real patient queries, screenshot the answers, and audit the layer underneath: crawler access, schema, Bing presence, profile, reviews.

02 — Open the gates

Make yourself readable

AI can't recommend what it can't read. We fix robots.txt and AI-crawler access, install Dentist / LocalBusiness / FAQ structured data, get you indexed on Bing, and clean up the data sources each engine actually pulls from.

03 — Cross the thresholds

Reviews past the bar

Each engine favors a rating bar. The Review Engine grows real, fresh patient reviews past those bars: every patient invited, nobody filtered, fully FTC-compliant.

04 — Become the answer

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.

05 — Prove it

Monthly before/after

Screenshots across all three 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.

See where you stand today.

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The Review Engine

Fresh five-star signals. The legal way.

Engines weigh rating average, review volume and review recency. Most clinics leave all three to chance. We run them as a system: every real patient gets a well-timed, one-tap invitation, and nobody gets filtered out.

ChatGPT favors 4.3+ Perplexity ≈4.1+ Gemini ≈4.5+
What we will never do
  • Write or post fake reviews: a federal offense under the FTC's fake-review rule, with penalties up to $53,088 per violation
  • "Review gating": filtering out unhappy patients violates Google's policy and risks your profile
  • Buy, trade or incentivize reviews in any form
VisitPatient completes their appointment
+2 hrsAutomated SMS / email with a one-tap Google review link
In-officeQR cards at checkout for patients who prefer it
+3 daysOne polite reminder, then we stop. No nagging.
MonthlyRating, volume & recency tracked against each engine's bar
Pricing

One Invisalign case pays for months of this.

A single cosmetic or Invisalign case is typically worth $4,500–$9,000 to a practice. Citevio exists to make your clinic the name AI gives when that patient asks.

Visibility

Get read by AI. The foundation.

$1,400/mo
+ $1,900 one-time setup
  • Baseline: what all 3 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
  • 2,700 AI answers analyzed every month — your 30 questions, asked on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, every single day
  • Monthly citation report with screenshots and the exact prompts tested
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Be the only clinic in your city

Dominance

Own the AI answer in your metro.

$5,500/mo
+ $7,500 one-time setup
  • Everything in Authority, raised to 5,400 AI answers a month — 60 questions, competitor queries included
  • City exclusivity, in the contract: competitors 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)
Check if my city is open

Where 2,700 comes from: 30 questions × 3 engines × 30 days. We ask every one of your questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini every day — because AI answers change from one day to the next. Ask once and you learn nothing; ask 2,700 times and you know exactly where you stand, which competitor keeps taking your place, and whether the work is moving the needle. The questions are yours: your city, your treatments, agreed with you at the start — not a generic list.

Annual = retainer billed upfront at 15% off. Setup fees are one-time and not discounted. Monthly plans have no lock-in and no notice period: cancel any day, effective immediately. The risk is ours, not yours.

Paying now? Your first payment covers the one-time setup fee plus your first billing period. Everything after that starts by email — sent to the exact address you enter at checkout, usually within one business day. Please watch that inbox and check your spam folder: we can't begin your setup until you reply, and the sooner you do, the sooner the work starts. By starting a plan you agree to our Terms of Service; the one-time setup fee is non-refundable once setup work has begun, and monthly plans can be cancelled any day.

On Dominance we take one cosmetic or Invisalign practice per metro. Once a city is taken, it stays closed to new clients for as long as that clinic is active — ask us whether yours is still open.

The math that matters

One Invisalign case is worth $4,500+ to your practice. Authority runs $2,900/mo: roughly 8 cases a year to break even. If owning the AI-recommended spot in your city doesn't bring 8 cases in a year, we shouldn't be working together. We price on the patient, not the hour. For how these plans compare with the wider agency market, and a written list of what is not included, see what GEO for a dental clinic costs.

Visibility — everything included

$1,400/mo + $1,900 one-time setup. The layer every clinic needs before anything else can work.

One-time setup

Every month

By starting a plan you agree to our Terms of Service. The one-time setup fee is non-refundable once setup work has begun; monthly plans can be cancelled any day.

Authority — everything included

$2,900/mo + $3,500 one-time setup. Everything in Visibility, plus the signals that get you recommended — not just read.

The Review Engine

Answer-ready content

Monitoring

Authority building

By starting a plan you agree to our Terms of Service. The one-time setup fee is non-refundable once setup work has begun; monthly plans can be cancelled any day.

Dominance — everything included

$5,500/mo + $7,500 one-time setup. Everything in Authority, plus your metro locked down.

Exclusivity

Competitive intelligence

Priority

By starting a plan you agree to our Terms of Service. The one-time setup fee is non-refundable once setup work has begun; monthly plans can be cancelled any day.

Why clinics trust us

Promises are cheap. Systems aren't.

Any agency can say "trust us." We'd rather show you the machine: a system that re-tests the engines on a loop, data we collected ourselves, and the most complete plan you'll be shown in this niche.

Sources that never sit still

AI engines are updated constantly, so our system runs in a loop: we test the engines, the results feed our data, the data updates the playbook. When the engines change, our recommendations change with them, not a quarter later. Most agencies work from a strategy PDF that was already stale the day it was written.

The most complete plan in this niche

Every step is mapped before we start: crawler access, data sources, review thresholds, content structure, refresh windows — per engine, in writing. Ask another agency to show you their plan. Then ask for ours. That comparison is our favorite sales pitch.

Receipts, not fairy tales

Everyone "guarantees the work." We go further in both directions: monthly before/after screenshots, the exact queries tested, an itemized list of what shipped — and zero fantasy numbers about rankings or patient counts. Reporting honest enough to fire us with is the only guarantee that means anything.

Fast, async and compliant

Setup lands in weeks, not quarters — we don't stretch the work to pad a retainer. No sales calls, no Zoom fatigue: recorded walkthroughs, written reports, replies within one business day. And every tactic survives an FTC audit and a Google policy review, because your reputation is the asset.

FAQ

Questions, answered straight.

No — and you should run from anyone who does. AI models are updated constantly. What we guarantee: a complete, documented technical setup, the full optimization work in your plan, and honest monthly before/after reporting so you can judge the results yourself.

Technical setup completes in the first 2–3 weeks. First measurable AI-visibility movement typically shows in the 30–90 day window, depending on your starting point — the free check and deep scan will tell us exactly where that is.

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google Gemini — each pulls from different data sources (Bing index, Google Business Profile, review platforms, community content), so each gets its own playbook.

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.

Four 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.
  • Speed per clinic. Setup lands in weeks, not quarters. We don't stretch the work to pad a retainer.
  • 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.

Yes. We only invite real patients to leave honest reviews, we never filter who gets asked, and we never write reviews or offer incentives. This keeps you safe under the FTC's fake-review rule — where penalties can reach $53,088 per violation — and Google's review policies.

On the Dominance plan, 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.

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The instant check reads your website. The free deep scan goes further. We test what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini 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.

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