We make brands the answer AI gives.
CiteFirst.ai is an Answer Engine Optimization agency. As search shifts from links to answers, we get medium and large national brands cited and recommended by the AI engines your customers now ask first — ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Claude, and Perplexity. Visibility is no longer about ranking. It’s about being the answer. That’s what we build.
Founder
Built by someone who saw the shift coming.
CiteFirst.ai was founded by Eric Sharp, who has spent 25 years turning search visibility into pipeline. He’s the creator of The Citation Cascade Method™ — a system for engineering the convergence of named-expert authority and multi-channel citations that AI engines weight most heavily when deciding which brands and experts to surface. The method treats authority as something that compounds: one credible, well-attributed source cascades into citations across every domain AI crawls.
And it works. In one recent engagement, Eric’s program took an established firm from near-invisibility in AI search, 641 AI citations, up from zero, and 5x its website traffic in six months — fueling the single largest revenue spike in the company’s 28-year history.
“As search shifts from links to answers, being found isn’t about ranking anymore. It’s about being the answer.”
The Team
A team at the frontier.
Eric leads a team of some of the sharpest minds working in AI search today — specialists at the forefront of Answer Engine Optimization, including people who’ve built visibility for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the world. It’s the depth of experience national brands need, pointed entirely at the channels that now decide who gets recommended.
AI Search Specialists
Named-Expert Authority
Digital PR
Fortune 500 Experience