About us
Built to make your brand the answer
Cite First AI is a marketing agency engineered for the AI search era — helping brands earn citations, authority, and visibility where decisions are now made.
Our story
Search changed. Marketing hadn't caught up.
For two decades, marketing teams optimized for a list of blue links. Today, the answers people trust come from AI — generated by models that decide which brands to cite, summarize, and recommend. Most agencies are still optimizing for a search results page that fewer people read.
Cite First AI was founded to close that gap. We combine brand authority building, structured-data and entity optimization, and content engineered for AI retrieval so that when a customer asks an AI a question about your industry, your brand is the name in the answer.
Based in Sacramento, CA and operated by Sierra Marketing Pros LLC, we bring the discipline of a compliance-minded Limited Liability Company to a discipline that has historically lacked both.
Company facts
- Doing business as
- Cite First AI
- Legal entity
- Sierra Marketing Pros LLC
- Entity type
- Limited Liability Company
- Industry
- Marketing Agency
- Headquarters
- Sacramento, CA
- Authorized representative
- Eric Sharp, CEO
What we stand for
Principles that shape every engagement
Mission-driven
Our mission is to make authoritative, accurate brands the default answer in AI-generated search results — replacing guesswork with measurable citation presence.
Established & accountable
Operated by Sierra Marketing Pros LLC, a Limited Liability Company headquartered in Sacramento, CA. We hold ourselves to transparent reporting and verifiable outcomes.
Direct partnership
You work directly with Eric Sharp, CEO, and a focused team — no layers of account managers between you and the people doing the work.
Built for the AI era
We were founded to solve a problem traditional SEO can't: how to be cited by name inside the AI answers your customers already trust and rely on.
Leadership
Eric Sharp
CEO, Cite First AI
Eric Sharp leads Cite First AI with a focus on measurable brand authority and AI search outcomes. Under his direction, the agency pairs technical citation optimization with the strategic content and paid media needed to make a brand the trusted answer — not just a ranked result.
Let's talk about your brand's AI visibility
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