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Self-Driving Practice®

AI that runs the business side of your dental practice.

It fills the schedule, verifies insurance, files claims, answers the phone and collects payment, with your team in control of every step.With your team in control of every step.

  • Answers the phone, day or night
  • Fills open chairs from your recall list
  • Verifies insurance before the visit
  • Files claims and follows them to payment
  • Collects balances by text
  • Books new patients from your website
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From a practice running it

Hear what changed when the front office started running itself.

A Self-Driving Practice customer on what their team does now that scheduling, insurance and follow-up run without them chasing it.

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What's inside

Everything the front desk chases, handled.

Six core modules, one system. Each works on its own; together they cover the whole patient journey, from the first call to the final payment.

Voice AI

Every call answered, day or night.

Books and confirms appointments, welcomes new patients and follows up on balances, without putting anyone on hold.

Your team gets: mornings without a voicemail backlog.

Incoming call · 7:42 pmLive
  1. CallerHi, I need to move my cleaning on Thursday.
  2. AIHi Sam, I'm the front desk assistant at Maple Dental. Happy to take care of that. Thursday at 9:40 or Friday at 2:10?
  3. CallerThursday 9:40.
  4. AIDone. You'll get a text confirming it.
Hygiene patient rebooked, Thu 9:40 amBooked
Confirmation textSent

Smart Scheduling and Campaigns

Open chairs filled. Overdue patients back.

Offers last-minute openings to the patients most likely to show, and sends recall reminders by text, email or phone.

Your team gets: a full hygiene schedule without working the phone list.

Thursday · Hygiene2 openings1 opening
Perio maintenance60 min
OpenRecall patient50 minBooked by text
Prophy + x-rays50 min
Open50 minOffered to 3

Hi! You're due for a cleaning. Thursday at 9:40 just opened up. Want it?

Yes please!

Insurance Eligibility Verification

No coverage surprises at the chair.

Checks every patient's plan before the visit, estimates what they'll owe, and flags plan changes early.

Your team gets: faster check-ins and fewer billing questions.

Wednesday · 31 visits28 of 31 checked
8:00Hygiene patientPlan active · est. $0 patient portionVerified
9:10New patient examPlan active · $50 deductible leftVerified
10:30Crown seatNew plan on file, estimate updatedCheckingUpdated
New card requested by textSent
3 more checks in progress

Insurance Claims

Clean claims out. Paid faster.

Builds each claim from the visit, catches errors before it's sent, and tracks it until the payment posts.

Your team gets: less time on denials and resubmissions.

Claim · Primary insuranceIn progressPaid
  1. Prepared
  2. Checked
  3. Sent
  4. Accepted
  5. Paid
Scaling & root planing, upper right$280.00
Scaling & root planing, upper left$280.00
Periodic exam$60.00
Perio chart attached from your PMS
Billed $620.00Insurance paid $0.00$482.00

Payments and RCM

Paid at the visit, not weeks later.

Requests copays before the visit, sends balances as a secure text link, and posts each payment to your system.

Your team gets: no awkward balance calls at the front desk.

Your practice

Balance for your recent visit

$84.00 Secure link · expires in 7 days Pay $84.00Paid Thanks, you're all set.
Payment posted to your PMS Patient ledger updated · 9:14 am Posted

Website Builder

A website that brings in new patients.

Rebuilds your site from your current content so it looks modern and shows up in local search.

Your team gets: fewer scheduling calls, with new patients booking online.

yourpractice.com Live
Rebuilt from your current site
Open Mon to Thu, 8 am to 5 pmCleanings · Crowns · EmergenciesBook an appointment
✓ Easy to find in local search
✓ Patients book online, day or night
New patient booked onlineThu 9:40

Every module runs in the safety mode you choose, by module and by location. How the Safety Modes Work

One system

Every module, one patient record, one goal. Watch it run.

Live Atlas shows how Self-Driving Practice works. Each block is a module; the center learns from results and keeps adjusting each one.

Click any of the six core modules to see how it works.Tap a module to see how it works.

Live Atlas: Voice AI, Smart Scheduling and Campaigns, insurance, payments and other modules arranged in a ring around a learning core.
Learning coreLearns from results and adjusts every module
  • Website Builder6,180 visits · 30d
    1. Your site is built from your current content.
    2. Patients find you and book online.
    3. Bookings go straight to your schedule.
  • Voice AI684 calls · today
    1. A patient calls, at any hour.
    2. Voice AI answers and books the visit.
    3. The appointment is on your schedule.
  • Smart Scheduling and Campaigns1,329 slots filled · 30d
    1. When an opening appears or a patient is due, the right patients are invited by text or email.
    2. They pick a time.
    3. The visit is booked into your schedule.
  • Insurance Eligibility Verification1,041 checks · 30d
    1. A patient is on the schedule.
    2. Coverage is checked before they arrive.
    3. Your team sees the estimate at check-in.
  • Insurance Claims$48,210 paid · 30d
    1. A visit is completed.
    2. The claim is prepared, checked and sent.
    3. Payment lands in your account.
  • Payments and RCM$61,940 collected · 30d
    1. A balance is due.
    2. The patient gets a secure link and pays from their phone.
    3. Payment posts to your ledger.

+ 6 more modules in your demo

Why modules

When one module acts, the others already know.

Each module does one job well. Because they run on the same patient record, they do the next job for each other. Nothing reaches a patient without your approval.

  1. 1Voice AIBooks the patient
  2. 2Insurance Eligibility VerificationChecks their coverage
  3. 3Payments and RCMRequests the copay
  4. 4Smart Scheduling and CampaignsCloses the open slot

Nobody at the desk passes a note.

Works with the software you already use

Connects to 400+ practice management systems, built over 22 years and live in 47K+ practices.

One goal for every module

Choose production, collections or new patients, and every module works toward it.

Start with one module

Each one works on its own from day one. Add more and they share the same patient record.

How it learns
25K+

practices where it runs in shadow mode today.

Tested across tens of thousands of practices before it works in yours.

In shadow mode it watches outcomes and never takes an action. You pick the goal, and it adjusts to match.

Who holds the controls

You set how much it drives. By module, by location.

Choose one of four modes for each module, at each location, and change it any time.

Safety mode

Off

Dashboards and benchmarks only. Nothing is automated.

Recommendation

It drafts and ranks the work. Your team approves each item.

Simulation

Every action is prepared and shown with its projected impact. Nothing is sent to patients.

Full Self-Driving

Approved work runs inside the rules you set. Exceptions go to a person.

In every mode
  • Every action is logged
  • Stop pauses everything, in one click
  • Clinical decisions stay with the doctor

AI autonomy without a human in the loop is malpractice. Self-Driving Practice is built so that a person is always in it.

Vijay Sikka, Founder and CEO, Sikka.ai
The Sikka platform

One platform underneath every module.

Self-Driving Practice runs on the same foundation as Sikka's analytics, engagement and pricing products, with insight from 47K+ practices.

Also on the Sikka platform

Analytics

Practice Optimizer

  • Works with 400+ practice management systems and versions
  • Near real-time dashboards and benchmarking
  • DentalLLM, an AI model built for dentistry
  • Every practice you manage in one place
Engagement

Patient engagement and revenue

  • Patient Portal for appointments and outreach
  • Real-time eligibility through direct payer connections
  • Flags unscheduled treatment for follow-up
Pricing

Fee Optimizer

  • Insight across 41,000 ZIP codes and 742 procedure codes
  • Fees adjusted for inflation and supply costs
  • 50th to 90th percentile and maximum fees by ZIP
Track record

Built on infrastructure the industry already trusts.

22 years in business, profitable, SOC 2 and HIPAA controls, and the integrations other companies build on.

47K+Connected practices
400+Practice management systems
22 yearsIn business

Five-time API World winner: 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024 and 2026.

API World 2026Best Innovation in Health API
CloudX 2025Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
SOC 2 and HIPAAAudited regularly
Get started

See exactly what it would do before it does anything.

We'll walk you through what it would set up for a practice like yours, and the return it projects.

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What happens in a demo
  1. A short conversation about your practice and the software you run.
  2. A walkthrough of what it would handle for a practice like yours.
  3. You pick a starting mode. Most practices begin in Recommendation or Simulation, where nothing reaches a patient without your review.