Key facts
- The Calgary med-spa Botox prompt reached gpt-5.4-mini three separate times on 2026-09-23, each attempt made with browsing disabled and the model's stock configuration left untouched.
- Each run named exactly 5 clinics, for 15 total mentions and 13 distinct clinic names across the three runs.
- No single clinic was named in all three runs. Two names, The Cosmetic Clinic and Dermapure Calgary, each cleared two of the three runs; the other 11 distinct names showed up in a lone run apiece.
- Every run, independently, listed the same five factors to check before booking: the injector's medical credentials, the quality of the consultation, before-and-after photos, patient reviews, and follow-up or adjustment policy.
- All three runs opened with some version of the same disclaimer, that the model cannot verify current pricing, availability, or reputation in real time, before naming any clinic at all.
What we asked and how
Three fresh sessions, no follow-up added to any of them, put “Recommend a med spa in Calgary for Botox. Name businesses and say why” to gpt-5.4-mini on 2026-09-23, en-CA locale, browsing off.
This prompt sits in a health-adjacent category, cosmetic injectables, where accuracy and current licensing matter more than for, say, a plumber recommendation. We ran it with the same method as every other prompt in this panel to see whether that category behaves differently.
The full list, run by run
Run 1 named: Chinook Med Spa, The Cosmetic Clinic, VIVA Medical Aesthetics, Mika Medical Aesthetics, and Dermapure Calgary.
Run 2 named: Oasis Wellness Centre & Spa, The Cosmetic Clinic, Mosaic Med Spa, ReNue Medical Aesthetics, and Skin Technique.
Run 3 named: Dermapure Calgary, The View Medical Aesthetics, Brilliant Aesthetic & Wellness, Skinco Cosmetic Clinic, and Nu Image Medical and Laser Spa.
No clinic swept all three runs
No clinic appeared in all three runs. The closest thing to a stable name here was two clinics that each made two of the three lists: The Cosmetic Clinic, named in run 1 and run 2, and Dermapure Calgary, named in run 1 and run 3. Neither appeared in every run.
The other 11 distinct clinics, Chinook Med Spa, VIVA Medical Aesthetics, and Mika Medical Aesthetics only in run 1; Oasis Wellness Centre & Spa, Mosaic Med Spa, ReNue Medical Aesthetics, and Skin Technique only in run 2; and The View Medical Aesthetics, Brilliant Aesthetic & Wellness, Skinco Cosmetic Clinic, and Nu Image Medical and Laser Spa only in run 3, appeared once and nowhere else across the three tries.
What this does and doesn't tell you
This shows that, for a Calgary Botox recommendation, no single clinic dominated three tries of the same prompt on the same date. It does not show that any named clinic is a good or bad choice, we did not check whether any of these 13 names correspond to a currently operating business, an injector's actual credentials, or a real Calgary address.
With no clinic clearing all three runs, this prompt behaved more like the zero-overlap dental-agency prompt tested the same day than like the plumber or cleaner prompts, where at least one or two names held steady across every run. That difference between prompts, all run on the same model and date, is itself part of what this panel is recording.
The checklist that repeated more than the names did
Every run, regardless of which clinics it named, told the reader to check the same five things before booking Botox: who is actually doing the injecting and what their medical credentials are, whether the consultation properly assesses facial anatomy and goals, whether the clinic will show real before-and-after photos, what patient reviews say about consistency and results, and what the clinic's policy is if a follow-up adjustment is needed.
All three runs also opened with a near-identical caveat that the model cannot verify current pricing, hours, or reputation in real time, before it named a single business, a disclaimer that repeated more reliably than any specific clinic name did.
Related questions
No. Across three runs on 2026-09-23, no single clinic appeared in every run. The Cosmetic Clinic and Dermapure Calgary each appeared in two of the three; the other 11 distinct names appeared once each.
Fifteen name mentions across three runs of five names each, covering 13 distinct clinics once the two repeated names are counted once.
Neither. This test only records what one AI model, with browsing off, said on one date, three times. We did not verify credentials, pricing, reviews, or even current operating status for any of the 13 names.
The model consistently raised five points across all three runs: the injector's medical credentials, consultation quality, real before-and-after photos, patient reviews, and the clinic's policy on follow-up adjustments.
We don't know the exact cause. It could reflect how densely a category is represented in the model's training data, chance across a small sample of three, or something specific to how med spas are discussed online versus trades like plumbing. This dataset cannot isolate the reason.
Sources
SearchPod is a marketing agency with no relationship to any clinic named in this test and no medical expertise of its own to offer. Everything above came out of gpt-5.4-mini on one date across three attempts; none of it is medical advice, and none of it endorses any clinic mentioned.
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