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The patient already searched. The question is
whether your practice was the answer

77% of patients run a search before they book, and AI Overviews now sit on roughly half of health queries. kratt builds, hosts, and runs the SEO and answer-engine systems that put your practice in front of both, and reports the recovered bookings in dollars.

The math

What the open loop is costing you.

The conservative numbers below are pulled from kratt's audit data and published industry research for healthcare. Every leaky channel here is a competitor's win.

77%
search before booking
Roughly 77% of patients use search engines before booking a healthcare appointment, per rater8's 2025 patient-choice research.
~51%
of health queries get an AI Overview
WebFX's study of 130,000+ health queries found AI-generated summaries appear on about 51% of health-related searches; treatment and procedure queries trend far higher.
84%
check reviews first
84% of patients check online reviews before choosing a new provider, and 61% now trust reviews over personal referrals (rater8, Dec 2024 survey of 1,000+ US adults).
~59%
of US searches end with zero clicks
About 58.5% of US Google searches ended without a click in 2024; on AI-Overview searches the zero-click rate climbs to roughly 83% (SparkToro / Datos).
Conservative annual leak
$120,000 / yr
If 77% of patients search first and you are missing from the AI answer and the local pack, even 15 lost new-patient bookings a month at a conservative lifetime value compounds past six figures a year in foregone revenue.
  • · rater8, The Next Evolution of Patient Choice (2025 Report) and How Patients Choose Their Doctors (Dec 2024 survey, 1,000+ US adults)
  • · WebFX, AI Overviews in Healthcare: study of 130,000+ health queries (2025)
  • · BrightEdge, Healthcare and AI Overviews 2023-2025 (treatment/procedure queries trending toward near-total AI Overview presence)
  • · SparkToro / Datos, 2024 Zero-Click Search Study (Rand Fishkin)
  • · Ahrefs, analysis of 146M SERPs on AI Overview prevalence for medical YMYL queries
The stack

Wired into the tools you already run.

Google Business ProfileGoogle Search ConsoleSchema.org MedicalOrganization / Physician / FAQPage markupWordPress, Webflow, or your existing CMSHealthgrades / Zocdoc / directory profilesEHR and online booking (e.g. NexHealth, SimplePractice, athenahealth)Cloudflare / Core Web Vitals toolingGA4 + call tracking

kratt wires structured data, llms.txt, and citation-ready content into the CMS and booking stack you already run. No rip-and-replace; we host and operate the SEO and AEO layer on top of your existing site and EHR booking flow.

What it does

Four playbooks shipping in week one.

Each playbook is shippable within audit in days of kickoff. Most healthcare clients start with the first two and add the rest in weeks 2–4.

Win the AI Overview on your treatments

We build citation-ready service and condition pages with MedicalOrganization and FAQ schema plus an llms.txt index, so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI cite your practice as the source instead of summarizing a competitor.

Targets the ~51% of health queries already showing AI answers

Own the local pack and 'near me' intent

Google Business Profile optimization, NAP consistency across directories, location-page topical clusters, and review-response systems so you surface when a patient searches with immediate local, appointment-ready intent.

77% of patients search before booking; most look close to home

Fix the technical foundation that's hiding you

Core Web Vitals, crawlability, indexation, and clean structured data so both classic search and answer engines can actually read and trust your pages, the prerequisite to ranking or being cited at all.

Removes the silent blockers behind lost organic pipeline

Build topical authority around conditions you treat

Clusters of expert-reviewed, EEAT-grade content mapped to the questions patients actually ask, turning your site into the answer source for your specialties rather than a thin brochure.

Compounds organic visibility across high-intent query sets
The benchmark

Real numbers from a real operator.

Audit benchmark

How a multi-location clinic could recover bookings lost to AI answers and the local pack

Healthcare · illustrative
~51%
of target health queries showing AI answers, now citation-targeted
2-3x
illustrative lift in cited / first-page query coverage
30-90 days
to first measurable visibility gains
Pricing

What it costs, without the dance.

No flat list price. kratt starts with a free AI audit that ranks where your practice is losing organic and AI-search pipeline, in dollars. The build, hosting, and ongoing operation of the SEO and AEO system is a monthly retainer scoped to your location count, specialties, and competitiveness, quoted only after the audit shows the real leak. The audit is yours to keep regardless.

Healthcare · FAQ

Five things healthcare operators ask first.

The questions every healthcare prospect asks on the first call. Answers in writing so you can decide before booking.

How much does AI SEO + AEO for healthcare cost?+

It starts with a free AI audit that ranks, in dollars, where your practice is losing organic pipeline: missing AI citations, weak local pack presence, technical issues, thin content. From there kratt builds, hosts, and runs the fix on a monthly retainer scoped to your location count and competitiveness. The audit is yours to keep whether or not you continue; we quote the retainer only after the audit shows what is actually leaking.

What is the difference between SEO and AEO for a medical practice?+

SEO wins the classic Google results: rankings, the local pack, Maps. AEO (answer engine optimization) wins the AI layer that now sits above those results, the Google AI Overview and assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. Roughly half of health queries already trigger an AI answer, so kratt works both fronts: technical foundations and topical clusters for search, plus structured data, llms.txt, and citation-ready content so the answer engines name your practice as the source.

Will AI Overviews kill our organic patient traffic?+

They change where the visibility happens, not whether it matters. On AI-Overview searches the zero-click rate runs around 83%, so being summarized instead of cited means you simply vanish. The defensive move is to become the cited source. kratt structures your content and schema so the AI answer references and links your practice, which is exactly the work AEO covers.

How long until we see results?+

kratt ships the technical and structured-data fixes in days, not months, and you typically see first measurable visibility movement within 30 to 90 days. SEO and AEO compound, so the curve keeps rising after that. We report progress in recovered bookings and dollars, not vanity rankings.

Is this compliant with healthcare advertising and HIPAA rules?+

Yes. SEO and AEO work on public-facing content, structured data, and your site's discoverability, not on protected patient information. We keep claims accurate and EEAT-grade, follow platform policies for medical content, and route anything that touches patient data through your existing compliant booking and EHR systems rather than around them.

Do we own the work, or is it locked to kratt?+

The free AI audit is yours to keep, full stop. The ongoing SEO and AEO system, the content engine, monitoring, schema, and answer-engine optimization, is something kratt builds, hosts, and runs as a retainer, because staying cited and ranked is continuous work, not a one-time project. You are buying an operated system, not a deliverable that goes stale the day after handoff.

We already have an SEO agency. Why kratt?+

Most legacy SEO work optimizes only for classic Google rankings and ignores the AI answer layer that now intercepts roughly half of health searches before a patient ever scrolls to your listing. kratt runs both fronts, classic search and answer engines, as one operated system and ties every move back to recovered bookings. Start with the free audit; it will show plainly where your current setup is leaking.

How do you get ChatGPT or Perplexity to recommend our clinic?+

You make your practice the most machine-readable, trustworthy source for the questions patients ask. kratt implements MedicalOrganization and FAQ schema, an llms.txt index, and citation-ready, expert-reviewed content, then monitors which assistants cite you and iterates. There is no paid placement; it is structured authority that answer engines can parse and trust.

By industry

Other verticals we ship AI SEO for.

Same technical SEO, AEO, and a content engine, tuned to industry-specific needs. Same deploy cadence. Same guarantees.

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