Western Surgical and Sedation
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About the Project
Client
Western Surgical and Sedation
Industry
Dental Education, Healthcare Training, Professional Certification
Headquarters
Utah, USA
Services
Website Design & Development (Framer), E-commerce Integration (Kajabi), Sales Funnel Architecture & Automation, Ongoing Platform Management (Retainer)
Dr. Heath Hendrickson built his reputation one procedure at a time. Two decades in oral surgery, hundreds of thousands of third molar removals, tens of thousands of sedations, and a hands-on training program that dentists fly across the country to attend. Western Surgical and Sedation had the credibility. What it did not have was a way to sell that credibility without Dr. Hendrickson personally closing every enrollment. Course revenue moved at the speed of one man's calendar: built on referral, reputation, and presence, none of which scale and none of which run while he sleeps.
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GG Studio Methodology®
Discovery started with a hard question: what does a dentist need to believe before committing five figures to a course? Not a design brief. A sales psychology brief. Architecture and UX mapped that decision path into a funnel structured around trust signals before features, credentials before pricing, outcomes before curriculum. Design System and UI built a Framer front end fast enough and credible enough to hold a high-ticket buying decision, wired directly into Kajabi for course and product checkout. Support is where this project actually lives. GG Studio operates the platform on an ongoing retainer, reading heatmap and behavior data every cycle and adjusting the funnel accordingly. Western Surgical and Sedation doesn't manage a website. It runs a business asset it never has to touch.
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Most agencies said impossible. We said: let's go!
The authority was real. The revenue engine was not.
Western Surgical and Sedation had built something rare in continuing education: a founder with real, verifiable clinical authority and a course dentists actively sought out. But every enrollment still ran through Dr. Hendrickson himself, dependent on referral, reputation, and personal presence to close. That model doesn't scale past one calendar, and it doesn't run at night, on weekends, or while he's in surgery. Every hour spent selling was an hour not spent training or operating. Dentists evaluating a high-ticket investment needed a platform that proved competence before they ever spoke to a human.
A commercial platform, not a website.
GG Studio deployed the GG Studio Methodology to build infrastructure, not a page. A Framer front end integrated with Kajabi handles course and product sales end to end. A funnel structured around dentist decision-making, instrumented with heatmaps and on-page behavior data, feeds a continuous optimization cycle. An automation layer runs lead nurture, conversations, and prospecting whether anyone is at a desk or not. Western Surgical and Sedation now converts trust into revenue without spending Dr. Hendrickson's time to do it.
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Project Challenges
Most agencies can design a page for a course. Few can operate a commercial platform for a founder whose entire value proposition is a level of clinical authority that can't be faked, automated away, or delegated to a junior designer. This was a retainer relationship from day one, not a handoff.
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Results
Western Surgical and Sedation no longer depends on physical advertising, referral timing, or Dr. Hendrickson's calendar to sell out a course. The platform GG Studio built and continues to operate runs the full commercial cycle: course sales, product sales, lead nurture, and prospecting, all live around the clock. Full year course revenue moving through the platform has reached seven figures. The relationship didn't end at launch. GG Studio remains the retainer partner tuning the funnel against real behavior data, which means the platform gets sharper every cycle instead of going stale the day it shipped. Dr. Hendrickson's authority used to require his presence to convert. Now it converts without him.
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Annual course revenue processed through the platform GG Studio built and continues to operate.
Automated nurture and prospecting sequences convert leads whether anyone is at a desk or not.
Dependency on physical advertising. Training revenue now moves entirely through the platform.
