Agency comparison

Specialist SEO agency for medspas
and wellness clinics.

We rank med spa, TRT, IV, GLP-1, peptide, longevity, and telehealth clinics in Google and AI search. Purpose-built for cash-pay clinics — every playbook, benchmark, and keyword set is tuned for your category.

No credit card · no sales call · audit delivered in 48 hours
40+
Cash-pay clinics on the roster
0
Dentists, vets, or generic SMBs
48 hrs
From your URL to your audit

Three patterns clinic owners notice when they shop around.

Same playbook, every client

Most generalist agencies run the same strategy for dentists, chiros, and personal-injury firms — and try to recycle it for clinics. The template fits one of those. Not yours.

No grasp of your category

The agencies on your shortlist often can't articulate the difference between an IV drip bar and a hormone clinic — or why GLP-1 ad policy differs from peptides. They learn it on your dime.

Silent on AI search

Most clinic marketing agencies still haven't mentioned ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews — even though a growing share of your patients search there first.

The comparison

Specialist agency vs. generalist healthcare agency vs. patient acquisition platform.

Three different shapes of company, three different fits. We're describing categories, not specific competitors — there are good operators in all three columns, just built for different buyers.

Dimension
For cash-pay clinics
The Longevity Agency
Specialist
Generalist healthcare agency
Mixed verticals
Patient acquisition platform
Lead-gen + ad spend
Vertical focus
Cash-pay clinics onlyMed spa, TRT, IV, GLP-1, peptides, longevity, telehealth. That's the entire roster.
Any clinicDental, chiro, vet, urgent care, med spa, law firms — all in one agency.
Any clinicSoftware-driven, no vertical specialty.
Category knowledge
Built inGLP-1 ad compliance, IV claim limits, TRT review policy — we know the rules before you ask.
GenericSame playbook across categories, learned on your account.
NoneIt's a tech platform. Knowledge isn't the product.
AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews)
Core serviceWe optimize for AI citations alongside Google rank, every engagement.
Rarely offeredOften not done. Often not even mentioned.
Not offeredThe model is paid ads, not earned visibility.
Where leads come from
Organic + AI searchA compounding asset you own. Keeps working after the invoice is paid.
Mostly paidRented attention. Stop the spend, stop the leads.
Paid onlyRented attention. The platform is the pipe.
Channel mix
Owned channelsSEO, GEO, Google Business Profile, site content. No paid pass-through.
Everything, bundledSEO + paid + email + social — often all at once, none deeply.
Paid adsPrimarily paid ads. Stop paying, leads stop.
Reporting
Booked-consult attributionCRM-wired: which queries drove which patients. Reporting that survives a CFO review.
Vanity metricsTraffic, rankings, impressions — not booked consults.
Lead countsThin on revenue attribution.
Pricing & lock-in
Month-to-monthNo contract. 30-day exit. Fire us if we're not delivering.
6–12 month contractsStandard lock-in. Hard to leave mid-flight.
Ad-spend pass-throughMonth-to-month, but tied to ad spend. Your spend, their margin.
Client mix
Cash-pay wellness onlyWe turn away insurance-billed, dental, vet, plastics, and SMBs.
MixedOften includes insurance-billed practices and unrelated SMBs.
Anyone with a budgetAny clinic willing to pay for ads.
Eight rows lean the same direction.

Three companies, three buyers. For a cash-pay health or longevity clinic, only one column is built end-to-end for the outcome you're shopping for.

What the table can't show

Three patterns the comparison only hints at.

The compounding curve

Paid attention is rented. Owned attention compounds.

Stop paying ads, leads stop the same week. Stop paying us, your rankings keep producing — and the gap widens every month.

The shortlist

Six adjacent verticals. Nothing else.

Generalists run the same playbook for dentists, vets, plumbers, and law firms. We turn those clients away so the playbook stays sharp.

The exit ramp

30-day exit, not 12-month contract.

If we're not delivering, you fire us at the next invoice. Most agencies bind you to a year before you can even ask the question.

Who we work with

Cash-pay clinics in six adjacent verticals.

Tap a vertical to see the queries we rank for, the patient mix, and the playbook we run against it.

Med spa

GLP-1, peptides, NAD+, and PRP — the $4–10k packages that pay for the chair. Not the $99 facials a generalist would optimize for.

  • “peptide therapy near me”$2.8–6.4k · package intent
  • “glp-1 weight loss clinic”$4.2–9.6k · package intent
  • “nad+ iv [city]”$1.4–4.2k · local
  • “prp facial near me”$1.6–3.2k · book today
Who we don't work with
  • Insurance-billed practices
  • Dental and orthodontic
  • Veterinary
  • Plastic surgery
  • Generic SMBs

A specialist who can name the verticals they won't take is more useful than a generalist who claims to do everything.

What you actually get

Five services, all owned-channel, all month-to-month.

01

SEO for cash-pay clinics

Technical, on-page, and local — built around the high-value queries your future patients actually type.

02

GEO / AI search optimization

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. We restructure your pages so AI models cite you, not your competitor.

03

Google Business Profile

Map-pack rank for the metro searches that drive same-week bookings.

04

Service page creation

We build the short, vertical-specific pages — peptide, GLP-1, NAD+, TRT — your clinic doesn't have time to write.

05

CRM-wired attribution

Every booked consult tagged back to the query that drove it. Reporting that survives a CFO review.

Case studies

What this looks like when it works.

Rapamycin clinic

Alpine Longevity, Austin

Ranked #1 for "rapamycin doctor Austin" in 42 days. Now cited in Google's AI Overview for the query.

+142%cash-pay consults · Q/Q
Med spa

Meridian Wellness, Denver

Captured 17 of 20 tracked metro queries for peptide therapy and NAD+ IV within one quarter.

17/20metro queries won
Telehealth

Horizon Health

Organic clicks from evidence-based content surpassed paid acquisition by month five.

3.1×organic vs. paid CPA
Questions

What clinic owners ask before signing up.

Most healthcare marketing agencies serve dentists, vets, med spas, and law firms with the same playbook. We only work with cash-pay health and longevity clinics, and a meaningful share of our work is in AI search — getting your clinic cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — not just classic Google rank. The comparison table above lays it out side by side.

The fastest way to stop comparing.

Send us your clinic URL and your #1 marketing problem. We'll return a ranked map of every intent query in your metro, your current rank in Google and the AI engines, and the wins reachable in 30 days.

no credit card · no sales call