For single-location dental practices

Northrun checks your practice-management system for overdue visits, drafts reminder texts using patient history, and answers new-patient calls after 6 pm and on weekends. The workflow also keeps follow-up that brings overdue patients back in one place — priced against the recovered-visit improvement, not hours spent configuring tools. The $497 paid audit sets the implementation plan, and monthly optimization uses the same number after the 30-day guarantee clears.

Tracked number

Recovered hygiene visits · After-hours bookings

Bring overdue visits back and answer new-patient calls sooner.

From the case studies

Single-location dental social proof

Single-location dental case study

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The four revenue-leak patterns

The four places a single-chair practice loses a full month of chairs.

Every pattern below is one Northrun sees in single-location dental groups before the Audit. None of them are measured here — the goal is naming the leak so the Audit can name the number against it in writing.

  • After-hours call recovery

    The on-call cell rolls to voicemail by 8:15 because the dentist is in someone's mouth by 8. The voicemails stack by Monday morning, by which time the caller has already booked somebody else.

  • Follow-up after a treatment plan

    A treatment plan is discussed in the chair, but the practice cannot see how many patients say yes. The diagnosis may be clear; the follow-up after the patient leaves is what slips first.

  • Overdue hygiene visits and rebooking

    Patients whose cleanings were due back in March are still not booked in August, and staff stop calling because the phone rarely gets picked up. The number of overdue visits brought back is the number to track.

  • Unpaid balances left behind

    Insurance reimbursement lags and patient balances age at the desk because follow-up runs by calendar reminder instead of by the balance that is still due. The chair is filling; the money owed is not.

The 3-stage engagement flow for single-location dental practices

The three stages

Same three-stage engagement, single-location framing.

Each stage has its own price, one number to move, and a timeline. For a single-location dental practice, that number can be the share of patients who return after a 4-to-7-month hygiene gap. The Audit names it in writing, the Implementation moves it, and the retainer helps hold it there.

  1. Stage 1 — Paid Audit

    Stage 1 of 3: Paid Audit

    Paid Audit

    $497

    What we measure: Where you start and the number we’ll move, both in writing.

    Timeline
    Two weeks (10 working days)
    Deliverable
    A written plan for your business + a firm build quote.
    See the Free Revenue-Leak Check

  2. Stage 2 — Implementation

    Stage 2 of 3: Implementation

    Implementation

    $3,500 – $5,000

    What we measure: One named number, sized against the build.

    Timeline
    Scoped after the Audit (typically 4 – 8 weeks)
    Deliverable
    A fixed-fee build priced against that one number.
    See case studies

  3. Stage 3 — Monthly Optimization

    Stage 3 of 3: Monthly Optimization Retainer

    Monthly Optimization Retainer

    $300 – $900 / mo

    What we measure: Lift over where you started.

    Timeline
    Monthly — starts after the 30-day guarantee clears
    Deliverable
    Continued lift above your starting point.
    See pricing

These aren’t a starting point for negotiation. They’re the range we publish because we commit to it.

For one-location dental practices

Why this works for a single-location practice.

Here are the questions we hear most from one-location practice owners: how to bring overdue patients back, how quickly new-patient calls get a reply, what the paid audit delivers, and which business number the monthly work follows. Every number below comes from the published comparison rows above, not an internal opinion.

Compares cleanly against an hours-priced consultant? See the one-number pricing approach on /pricing →

Self-qualify in 60 seconds

Ten questions. One personal walkthrough.

Take the same ten-question check that starts our paid audit — sized for a single-location practice. It takes about a minute; then you can request a personal walkthrough. The conversation can explore four common leaks: after-hours calls that never become booked visits, follow-up with patients overdue for a 4-to-7-month hygiene visit, treatment plans that stall after an exam, and slow collection of completed treatment.

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Paid AI Opportunity Audit sample for dental practices

See what the paid audit includes.

The cards below show the shape of the paid AI Opportunity Audit: complete evidence review, written report, action plan, and findings call. This is a redacted sample, not your Free Revenue-Leak Check result.

  1. Section 1

    Complete evidence review

    A redacted review of the new-patient and follow-up journey for a dental practice, including the patient experience and the team context around it. The full evidence review belongs to the paid AI Opportunity Audit.

  2. Section 2

    Written report

    A written report that explains the selected practice opportunity in plain language and distinguishes observed evidence from questions that still need an operator conversation.

  3. Section 3

    Action plan

    A practical action plan for the selected practice opportunity, organized around the team’s decisions and patient journey rather than a one-size-fits-all recommendation.

  4. Section 4

    Findings call

    A live findings call to explain the reviewed evidence, answer the practice owner’s questions, and agree on the next step. The redacted sample is paid-work proof, never a personalized free result.

Redacted paid-audit proof

A static sample of the Paid AI Opportunity Audit. The complete deliverable is part of the $497 paid engagement.

Stage by stage

The same three stages, in prose.

Stage 1

Paid Audit — $497, two weeks.

A. What this stage delivers. A written plan for your front-desk follow-up, a starting measurement against similar single-location dental practices, and a firm build quote — paid even if we cannot commit to a single number in writing.

B. Who it’s for. Practice owners who cannot write down the one business number their last workflow was supposed to move.

C. What you walk away with.

  • Two-week paid audit engagement
  • Practice-system and front-desk review + comparison benchmark
  • Written workflow plan
  • Firm build quote
  • The plan is yours whether or not we book the next stage

D. The pricing model. The $497 engagement buys a number your follow-up process will be measured against.

The peer lift today is Recovered hygiene visits after a 4-to-7-month lapse (today sits at 0.41 across our 2025-H1 comparison group of 39 single-location dental operators; the after figure on the same metric is 0.68. You keep the upside whether or not we book the next stage.).

See the Free Revenue-Leak Check →

Stage 2

Implementation — $3,500 – $5,000, agreed in writing.

A. What this stage delivers. The tools connected, reminder texts using patient history, after-hours voice coverage for new-patient calls, and follow-up measured against the number the audit named. The final quote comes after the audit writes the number down and sizes the work.

B. Who it’s for. Practice owners whose audit named a number we can commit to in writing.

C. What you walk away with.

  • Workflow checking the practice-management system for overdue visits
  • Reminder texts drafted with patient history
  • After-hours voice coverage for new-patient calls after 6 pm
  • One place for overdue-visit follow-up and its status
  • One named number, agreed in the Audit

D. The pricing model. One number, with the work and price fixed in writing. We earn against the number, never against the hours we work. Implementation also surfaces three numbers Northrun tracks against current sprint operators but for which no measured comparison exists yet today: case-acceptance rate, collections ratio, and online-review velocity. Each one is a directional figure — not a measured comparison lift — and will join the published comparison set once the sample lands.

The peer lift today is no-show recovery rate (baseline 0.62 → after 0.91, n=47, 2025-H1) and hygiene recapture rate (baseline 0.41 → after 0.68, n=39, 2025-H1).

See case studies →

Stage 3

Monthly Optimization Retainer — $300 – $900 /mo.

A. What this stage delivers. $300/mo floor and $900/mo ceiling. The exact figure is set against the number we agreed in the audit; it begins after the 30-day guarantee clears; and the price never moves with hours spent on tools.

B. Who it’s for. Practice owners whose 30-day guarantee cleared and who do not want the recovered-visit number to slip back.

C. What you walk away with.

  • Priced against the number we agreed in the Audit
  • $300/mo floor, $900/mo ceiling
  • How you compare to similar single-location practices
  • No reduced fee when you beat the target
  • Starts after the 30-day guarantee clears

D. The pricing model. Improvement over where you started. You keep the upside either way — we never raise the monthly price to chase more hours on tools, and we never cut the work when you beat the target. The improvement on the follow-up number continues across months instead of slipping back into missed calls.

See pricing →

The closer

“With permission, I will tell operators: track the number of overdue visits you bring back — the rest gets easier to see.”

Dr. M.H. · Practice owner, Ridgeline Family Dental

Anonymized peer testimonial — the Tubb Family Dental case study is on the planned case-study list.

The next step

See the four leaks against your own calendar.

The Free Revenue-Leak Check gives a Northrun operator one bounded area to discuss with you personally, based on your calendar. The paid Audit then writes the number against the leak it found. Either path lands in the same 3-stage engagement.

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Audit-intent self-ID

Already know this is for you? Drop the practice name and the leak.

No calendar link or long qualification process. Tell us the leak you see, and we’ll reply with the paid-audit number we would measure and the next step.