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PatientFoundry

How it works

Eight stages between the offer and a patient who starts care.

Most marketing builds the ad and leaves your practice the rest. This page walks the whole path, in the order a patient actually travels it, so you can see which part of your current setup is leaking.

In the order a patient travels them

  1. 1

    Build the right offer

    We look at your practice, services, local market and growth goals, then build an offer people respond to.

  2. 2

    Get in front of local prospects

    Facebook and Instagram campaigns reach relevant people inside your service area, with creative and copy built for the offer.

  3. 3

    Convert attention into an inquiry

    Ad traffic lands on a page built around that one offer. One question, one form, nothing else competing for the thumb.

  4. 4

    Follow up immediately

    New inquiries get automated SMS and email within moments, at any hour. A missed call gets a text back. Your team is alerted with the details attached, instead of finding a form in an inbox the next day.

  5. 5

    Sort the ready from the curious

    Fit questions do the sorting before your team spends time on it. Someone three months away from deciding is not a dead lead, so they keep getting useful follow-up instead of being discarded.

  6. 6

    Make booking the obvious next step

    People ready to move get a clear path onto the calendar without a phone tag loop. Where a conversation matters more than a link, the lead is routed to your team with the context attached.

  7. 7

    Reduce lost appointments

    Confirmation and reminder workflows keep the appointment top of mind, with a recovery step for missed bookings.

  8. 8Ongoing

    Optimize the machine

    Every stage is measured: cost per inquiry, contact speed, booked rate, show rate, cost per patient start. The weakest link gets fixed first, whichever one it turns out to be.

Pull any one of these out and the leak it was closing opens again.

Get My Patient Growth Plan

Speed is the system

The first reply decides who gets the patient.

People inquire at lunch, after the kids are asleep, on a Sunday. A person who hears back in minutes is still deciding. A person who hears back tomorrow has usually moved on. The system answers first, every time, without anyone in your office watching an inbox.

What the system is doingSimulation

    Invented names and times. This is what the automation does with every inquiry, shown at speed.

    Time to first contactIllustrative
    Typical officecallback when someone has timeThe systemSMS + email within moments, any hourInquiry1 hourSame dayNext business day

    Interest has a half-life. The gap between these two bars is where paid-for inquiries quietly disappear.

    What happens when a lead comes in

    What your patient journey can look like

    One inquiry, carried the whole way to an appointment somebody keeps: the first reply, the booking link, the confirmation, the reminder, and the one-letter answer that holds the slot. Nobody in your office has to notice the inquiry, find the number, or remember to follow up twice.

    Your team steps in where a human conversation matters. The repetitive touches are already handled.

    • Moments

      First reply after the inquiry

    • Automatic

      Booking link, confirmation, reminder

    • Ongoing

      Nurture if the inquiry goes quiet

    Example, not a performance claim. Exact messaging, screens and automation are customized for each practice.

    9:41

    [Practice]

    Text message

    1. Sarah requested a new patient consultation

      9:42 AM
    2. Hi Sarah, thanks for reaching out to [Practice]. I can help you set up your new patient consultation. Would mornings or afternoons work better this week?

      9:42 AM
    3. Mornings are best for me

      9:44 AM
    4. Perfect. Here's a link to pick a time that works: [booking link]

      9:44 AM
    5. Booked: Thursday 10:30 AM. Confirmation sent.

      9:47 AM
    6. Reminder: you're booked with [Practice] tomorrow at 10:30 AM. Reply C to confirm or R to reschedule.

      Wed 5:00 PM
    7. C

      Wed 5:12 PM

    Example thread

    What's included

    Everything needed to build your patient acquisition engine

    You can buy every one of these separately. Nobody connects them for you. Here they ship as one machine, and we start with whichever piece is leaking.

    Patient acquisition strategy

    • Practice analysis
    • Market analysis
    • Campaign strategy
    • Growth objectives

    Offer development

    • Campaign angles
    • Offer positioning
    • Messaging
    • Testing strategy

    Meta advertising

    • Facebook and Instagram
    • Targeting and campaign management
    • Copy and creative strategy
    • Testing and optimization

    Conversion funnel

    • Campaign-specific landing page
    • Lead capture
    • Mobile-first build
    • Conversion-focused UX

    Automated SMS + email follow-up

    • Immediate response, any hour
    • Missed-call text back
    • Follow-up and nurture sequences
    • Lead routing to your team with context

    Appointment booking

    • Calendar integration
    • Clear booking flow
    • Lead routing where appropriate

    Appointment reminders

    • Confirmations
    • Reminders
    • No-show reduction workflows

    Pipeline / CRM

    • Centralized lead management
    • Status visibility
    • Lead organization

    Database reactivation

    • Often a low-cost source of new appointments: past patients, old leads, quiet inquiries, missed appointments
    • Targeted campaigns to the list you already own
    • Consent and data handling reviewed first

    Reporting + optimization

    • Cost per inquiry and per booked consult
    • Contact speed and show rate
    • Cost per patient start where your systems allow
    • Weekly decisions off real numbers

    Strategic support

    • Account communication
    • Campaign recommendations
    • Iteration

    One system. One number it answers to:
    what a booked consult cost you.

    Get My Patient Growth Plan

    Seeing the stages usually raises the practical questions: ad spend, what your front desk still does, how fast this launches.Those are answered in full.

    Someone three miles away is deciding tonight.They will book with whoever answers first.

    Book a free Patient Growth Call. We'll look at your practice, your local market, your current acquisition process and the biggest opportunities we see.

    No obligation. Thirty minutes. If your numbers say do not spend, we will tell you that.

    What staying as-is costs

    • Money going out every month with no way to tell what it bought
    • A front desk chasing strangers between patients
    • Open chairs this week while old inquiries sit in a spreadsheet

    What the system is built for

    • A schedule that fills from a process you can repeat
    • Follow-up, booking and reminders that run without you
    • One number you can check on a Monday and trust

    Get My Patient Growth Plan

    Get your patient growth plan

    Tell us about your practice. We'll review it first, then walk you through the plan on a patient growth call. The conversation starts with your numbers.

    • We review your practice and local market before the call
    • You get a straight read on fit, and where the biggest gaps are
    • No obligation, no pressure

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