0
mainstream paid search or social channels available
the category is prohibited on both
Cannabis Clinics
AI visibility for medical cannabis clinics
The assistant now explains the process. The question is whether it names you.
Patients do not search for your clinic. They search for how the program works in their state — whether they qualify, what it costs, what happens at the appointment. An assistant answers all of that directly now, and somewhere in that answer it either names a provider or it does not. You are competing to be the provider inside an explanation, not a link below one. The paid channels that would normally buy your way into that moment are closed to this category.
how do I get a medical marijuana card in Austin
Here are some well-reviewed options:
- 1 Skin Society
- 2 Ageless Aesthetics
- 3 Radiance Group
- 4 Viva Wellness
- 5 Bella Vita
Your clinic Not mentioned
45%
of consumers now ask AI for local recommendations
up from 6% a year earlier
1–5
providers named in a typical AI answer
there is no page two
2 services
What we do for cannabis clinics
Citation sources we audit
Where your patients' recommendations come from
Each engine reads a different set of sources. These decide whether a cannabis clinic gets named in your category.
| Source | Primarily feeds |
|---|---|
| Leafly — doctor and clinic listings | All engines |
| Weedmaps — doctor listings | All engines |
| Google Business Profile | Gemini / AI Overviews |
| Bing Places | ChatGPT / Copilot |
| Healthgrades | All engines |
| State program pages and registries | All engines |
| Reddit — state cannabis and patient subs | Perplexity |
6 services × your markets
The prompts we test
Drawn from how patients actually ask, not from keyword tools. A full engagement tracks fifty per market across 4 engines.
- how do I get a medical marijuana card in Austin
- medical cannabis doctor near me Austin
- medical card evaluation Austin cost
- do I qualify for a medical card Austin
How it starts
Three steps, and the first one is free to look at.
-
Baseline
We run fifty real customer prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot for your markets, and show you exactly who gets named instead of you.
-
Build
We fix the sources those engines actually read — listings, structured data, review velocity, third-party and community presence — in the order that moves your score fastest.
-
Compound
Every month the score is re-measured and reported, with the citation source behind each mention. You watch the number move and you know what moved it.
Before you ask
The four things people say first.
"You cannot actually measure this."
We measure it every month
Fifty prompts, four engines, three runs each — logged with the source every engine cited. The number is reproducible and you get the raw log, not just a summary.
"We already have an SEO agency."
Keep them
The work barely overlaps. Theirs happens on your website. Around four fifths of ours happens off it — directories, review platforms, community and editorial. We will tell you plainly if we think you are paying twice.
"This is too new to spend on."
The shift already happened
Forty-five percent of consumers now ask AI for local recommendations, up from six percent a year earlier. The question is not whether it arrives, it is whether you are named when it does.
"Show us it works first."
That is exactly how we start
Every engagement opens with an audit. You see your score, your competitors’ scores, and the gaps — before committing to a retainer. If the number is already good, we will say so.
Comparison
What a traditional SEO retainer does not cover
Not a criticism of SEO — it still matters. These are simply different jobs, and most operators are only buying one of them.
| Traditional SEO agency | First Five | |
|---|---|---|
| Engines covered | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot | |
| Where the work happens | Almost entirely on your website | Roughly four fifths off it, where citations come from |
| What success looks like | A position on page one | Being named in a list of five |
| Primary data source | Google Search Console | Business Profile, Bing Places, Foursquare, Yelp, review platforms |
| How reviews are treated | Reputation management | A primary input to whether you get named |
| Monthly deliverable | A traffic report | A score, a per-engine breakdown, and a citation source map |
| When you are not cited | No visibility into why | The exact source that produced a competitor mention instead |
| What compounds | Rankings reset with each core update | Presence in the sources engines read |
Every row above is checkable. If your current agency covers a row we have marked, tell us and we will correct it.
Already working with someone?
How this compares to what you have.
Each comparison names the situations where the other option is the better one. If your current provider already covers this, the audit will show it and you should keep them.
A traditional SEO agency
What an SEO retainer covers, what it structurally cannot, and why the two jobs share almost no inputs.
Read the comparison →Brenton Way
A full-service growth marketing agency working across beauty, ecommerce, healthcare and med spas, SaaS, dental and several other c…
Read the comparison →Cardinal Digital Marketing
Cardinal is an Atlanta-based healthcare marketing agency with an established SEO and paid media practice. Aesthetics is one of sev…
Read the comparison →Growth99
Growth99 is a platform-plus-agency hybrid built specifically for aesthetics practices. It combines a CRM, marketing automation, on…
Read the comparison →9 questions
Questions cannabis clinics ask
Can you get us running on Google Ads?
No. Cannabis is prohibited on both Google and Meta regardless of whether the business is medical, and we will not try to work around a platform policy. That restriction is most of the reason organic and AI visibility matter as much as they do in this category.
Will AI engines actually recommend a cannabis clinic?
Sometimes, and less readily than in other categories. Engines hedge on anything adjacent to medical advice, and some prompts return general guidance with no provider named at all. We measure which prompts return a provider list before measuring whether you are on it, and we report the prompts that never will.
We operate in several states. Does that change the work?
Yes, substantially. Each state programme has different eligibility, cost and renewal rules, and engines resolve those against state-specific sources. Each state needs its own process content and its own prompt set, which is why we scope by state rather than by location.
Most of our evaluations are telehealth. Does local visibility still matter?
Less than for a physical-only practice, but not zero. Patients still search with a city or state attached, and a claimed listing remains how engines confirm you are a real, licensed entity. What changes is the balance — the state-level process content does more work than the local pack.
How long before anything moves?
Listing and directory work can register within two to four weeks. Content and review velocity compound over three to six months. We re-measure monthly either way, including the months the number does not move.
Can you guarantee we get named?
No, and be sceptical of anyone who does. No AI platform publishes how it selects sources, and this category is one where engines are actively conservative. We measure honestly and report what we find.
How long before the score moves?
Directory claims and structured data can register within two to four weeks. Review velocity and third-party presence compound over three to six months. We report monthly either way, so you see progress before it is complete.
Can you guarantee we get recommended by ChatGPT?
No, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does. No AI platform publishes how it selects sources. We work from measured output and correlations documented across the industry, we report honestly, and we re-baseline the source map quarterly because these systems change fast.
Is there a minimum term?
No. The monthly plans are cancel any time and the entry engagement is a one-time project with a fixed price. We would rather earn the next month than hold you to a contract. One caveat worth stating plainly: review velocity and third-party coverage compound over three to six months, so leaving at month two means paying for work you never saw finish.
Starts with an audit, not a contract
Be the one AI gets named
Fifty prompts, four engines, your markets. You will see your score and exactly who is being named instead — before you commit to anything.
Prefer to message? WhatsApp +91 92174 40013