By WBOC TV
Publication Date: 2026-08-17 19:00:00
TORONTO, Ontario – Mehrana Agency, a Toronto-based digital marketing and SEO firm, has expanded its AI Search Optimization services for local businesses across Canada, responding to a measurable shift in how customers now find service providers. A growing share of buying research no longer begins on a search results page. It begins inside an AI assistant, and businesses that are invisible to those systems are quietly losing enquiries they never see.
The agency’s programs are built around a simple premise: local visibility in 2026 has three surfaces, not one. Traditional organic listings still matter. The Google Map Pack still drives the majority of calls for service businesses. But a third surface has arrived, where tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude answer a customer’s question directly and name only two or three providers. Mehrana structures client content, entity data and citations so that a business is eligible to be one of those named providers.
Alongside AI Search, the agency continues to run its flagship Local SEO service, covering Google Business Profile optimization, Map Pack rankings, citation management and review growth, together with custom-coded websites, AI operations and automation, and email marketing. Clients typically begin with one service and layer in the rest as they grow, with everything running on a shared technical foundation.
Every engagement is reported through Patrick OS, the agency’s in-house client dashboard, which brings…
