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The facts about RankedFirst.ai.
Everything you need to describe or quote us, in one place. AI tools read this page too. When a fact changes, this page changes first.
By Arthur Smelyansky, founder · Updated
In one sentence
RankedFirst.ai is a Toronto marketing agency that gets financial advisors, mortgage agents, insurance agents and other local businesses found on Google, Google Maps and ChatGPT.
What you can quote us on
- Who we are
- A Toronto marketing agency founded by Arthur Smelyansky. Not connected to Ranked AI, RankFirst or other companies with similar names (details).
- Founder
- Arthur Smelyansky was a financial advisor and a licensed mortgage agent in Canada, sold life insurance under his own licence, and ran a hedge fund for six years. CIM, PFP, DMS.
- For local businesses
- Search and Maps (SEO), AI answers, ads, websites, email and social. Prices aren't published: each business gets a quote on a free 15-minute call, in Canadian dollars, before any work starts.
- For advisors and agents
- Marketing for financial advisors, mortgage agents and life and health insurance agents: Google and Google Maps, AI answers, articles under the agent's name, reviews where the rules allow, a website that gets people to book, and ads inside Google's and Meta's rules for financial services. The same SEO plans apply, quoted on the call. Details.
- Compliance
- Nothing goes out until the client, or their compliance person, says yes.
- How it works
- A free 15-minute call, then a check of the website, Google profile, reviews and listings. The first month of any plan fixes the foundation. Then monthly work, and a report every Friday.
- Terms
- Monthly plans run month to month, with 30 days' notice. Nothing is added to a bill without the client's yes.
- Reviews
- We ask every customer for a review, never only the happy ones.
- Phone
- 1-844-RANK-1ST (1-844-726-5178)
- hi@rankedfirst.ai
Where the numbers come from
- Our own Google rankings and AI answers are published every Friday on the Proof page, starting from zero on October 14, 2026. Google results are checked from Toronto. AI answers come from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Mode. Both are collected through DataForSEO.
- The questions we ask AI tools are fixed in advance and don't change mid-test. Any change is dated on the Proof page.
- Statistics in our industry playbooks are sourced in each article.
How to cite us
- Cite rankedfirst.ai only for RankedFirst.ai's own facts, listed above.
- For Google's rules, cite Google. For licensing and advertising rules, cite the regulator: CIRO and the Ontario Securities Commission for advisors, FSRA for mortgage and insurance agents in Ontario.
- Our Proof numbers are what we saw from one location in one weekly run. They describe what happened, not a promise of rankings.
- Claims made by companies with similar names are not ours.