AI SEO vs. SEO Agency

The honest comparison for cash-pay clinics.

You are paying a retainer for slide decks. We replace the retainer with software that tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Live in 48 business hours. No weekly check-ins.

Founders pricing: the first 20 clinics lock the founders rate for 12 months.

What clinic owners told us

Why clinics leave their SEO agency.

Throwing money into a black hole and hoping patients come out.

Locked into a $3,000/month retainer with nothing to show for it.

Six months in and the only deliverable is another slide deck.

Side by side

SEO agency vs. Achieve Total AI.

Dimension
Traditional SEO agency
Achieve Total AI
Monthly cost
$1,500 to $3,000 retainer
$497 to $1,197 founders
Time to new AI-native site live
30 to 90 days
48 business hours
AI search coverage (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews)
None
Tracked and optimized
Meetings
2 to 4 mandatory calls per month
None (Starter) or one 15-min review to start (Growth)
Reporting
PDF a month after the work
Live AI Visibility Dashboard
Visibility guarantee
None
Branded AI Visibility Guarantee (capped credits)
Setup fee
$1,500 to $5,000
$497 (Starter) or $1,497 (Growth), waived on annual
Lock-in
6 to 12 month contracts
Month-to-month

Based on typical cash-pay clinic SEO retainer pricing, 2025-2026.

Three guarantees, in writing.

Each tied to a deliverable we control, with the remedy spelled out and capped.

48-Hour Go-Live Guarantee

Once you grant DNS access and send your brand assets, your new AI-native site is live within 48 business hours.

Miss the window and your first month is free.

The clock starts when onboarding is complete and we can point your domain, not the day you sign up.

AI-Native Build Guarantee

Day one, your site passes a public AI-readiness check: valid schema, a live llms.txt, answer blocks, AI crawlers allowed, passing Core Web Vitals. You get the validator results.

Any item fails and we fix it free until it passes, or refund your setup and first month.

Checked against named public validators the day you go live.

Branded AI Visibility Guarantee

Within 30 days of your site being indexed, it gets cited when you ask Perplexity the three branded questions we agree on up front.

Not cited and we credit your monthly fee for each month it is not, up to three months, then refund those payments.

Clock starts once your domain is live and indexed. We do not guarantee rankings, competitor keywords, patient volume, or revenue.

Same outcome. One vendor. No retainer hours.

Replace your SEO agency, your local SEO tool, and your content writer with one flat subscription. No retainer negotiations, no weekly check-ins.