Stop running everything. Build a practice that works beyond you.
You’re great at the dentistry, and every question still ends at your door. That isn’t a discipline problem or a people problem. It’s a design problem, and a design problem can be redesigned.
18 questions · about 3 minutes · no account to start
You became a dentist. Then you got five other jobs.
Marketer. Operations director. HR department. CFO. Strategist. Nobody hired you for any of them. They landed on you because you are the one person with the authority to decide.
The book prices those five jobs at what the market pays for them, then shows you a practice that doesn’t run on you.
See where yours leans on youMarketer
Approves ad creative he doesn't fully understand. Writes an Instagram caption at 9:30 at night.
Operations director
Rebuilds the morning schedule from his pillow.
HR department
Four staff members have questions one notch above their authority.
CFO
Can read the P&L. Can't interpret it, and nobody taught him.
Strategist
Sets the direction of the practice in the gaps between patients.
Real pages from the book
The cover
Five stones, five jobs, and one practice carrying them. The idea of the book fits on its front.
Sixteen chapters. A test in every one.
The Trap
- 01You Became a Dentist. Then You Got Five Other Jobs.
- 02The Million-Dollar Practice That Still Needs You for Everything
- 03The Software Graveyard
- 04Stop Buying Tools. Get a Team.
The New Operating System
- 05Give Your Practice a Brain
- 06Meet Your New Executive Team
- 07One Instruction. An Entire Team at Work.
- 08Your Practice, Wherever You Are
The Four Business Outcomes
- 09Make Money
- 10Keep More Money
- 11Buy Back Your Time
- 12Get More Done
The Recoded Practice
- 13One Practice. One Brain. Your Rules.
- 14The Tools You Already Own
- 15Your Recode Score
- 16The Dentist Who Finally Owns the Practice
Six steps. One framework. RECODE.
The Scorecard follows these six steps, so what you see online matches what you read in the book.
Recognize
Where your practice leans on you
Establish
What the practice knows, and where it lives
Coordinate
Which jobs a team of helpers could carry
Operate
How much runs from one clear instruction
Decide
What stays yours, and what needs your approval
Expand
How it fits the tools you already own
Three minutes. No account to start.
Tap through 18 questions
One question at a time, three for each step of RECODE. Pick the answer closest to your practice and it moves on.
See your Recode Score
One number, the shape of your practice across the six steps, and the three places to look first.
Read what matches
Each result points to the chapters and tests in the book that match it, so you know where to start.
The Scorecard is not a diagnosis, a grade or a prediction, and there is no passing score. It shows where to look first. Nobody can promise your results, and we don’t.
Dental Brain OS
Dental Brain OS is the operating system the book describes, built for dental practices. It gives your practice one Brain, 95 AI role helpers across 16 departments, and controls that keep every decision with you. It starts with an interview about your practice.
Anything public waits for your approval, and a log shows what every helper did and when.
Fred Yalmeh
Fred builds software that gives small businesses a system of their own. He is a co-founder of NexaEra and Outranker, two AI companies built for business owners and the agencies that serve them. He has been building with voice and artificial intelligence since 2015.
Fred is a co-founder of NexaEra and offers Dental Brain OS. If you choose it, he benefits, and the book says so at the start.