Guide.MD — Claim Your Profile. Control Your Reputation.
Somewhere a directory lists your old specialty and your old address. It has never once asked you.
The physician directory built on the federal NPI registry — 9.7 million providers — where doctors claim and control their own profiles, free. GigHz operates it and offers concierge on top.
What it is
Guide.MD is a physician-focused directory built on U.S. healthcare provider registry data. A physician can claim their own profile at no cost and edit it directly — specialty, languages, services, links — without building or maintaining a full practice website.
The problem it addresses is that a doctor's name is already scattered across third-party directories carrying the wrong specialty, the wrong location, and services they no longer offer, with no single place to correct any of it.
Why it matters
- Discoverability: when a patient searches your name, what surfaces is the entire point.
- Ownership: a claimed profile is controlled by the verified physician or their team, not by a third-party aggregator.
- Efficiency: update specialties, languages, services and links in one place.
- AI-era accuracy: answer engines pull from structured provider data. Consistent data at the profile layer reduces the number of wrong answers a machine can give about you.
How it works today
- 9,730,591 provider records, sourced from the NPPES / CMS registry and refreshed weekly — every U.S. physician already has a profile.
- Claiming and correcting core facts is free, and will stay free. Identity is verified with a government ID and selfie through Stripe ($2, credited to any paid plan); Guide.MD never sees the document.
- Pro ($20/mo) and Premium ($49/mo) add a built-in AI writer that drafts your bio, FAQs, and per-procedure descriptions from verified facts you tick off, plus profile-view analytics with bot traffic filtered out.
- Every profile publishes schema.org structured data — the format search engines and AI assistants actually read.
Where GigHz fits
GigHz operates Guide.MD. For physicians who would rather not do it themselves, GigHz layers on a concierge service — identity verification handled, background researched, biography, conditions, procedures and FAQs written in patient-safe language, and kept current on a cadence you choose. You approve; we publish. From $295/month.
What it does not promise
No ranking guarantee. The focus is accuracy, consistency, and structured information — nobody controls what a search engine ranks, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
A profile is an identity layer. For many physicians it is enough; for some it is not a substitute for a practice website.
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