Andrew Steven Pierce

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Andrew Pierce is the founder and operator behind Private Pierce. He built and operates LLC Attorney, Wyoming LLC Attorney, and Company Sage — business-formation and compliance platforms over 150,000 companies have used. He is not a licensed attorney. Private Pierce is the research project where he documents what business-formation and public-records systems actually do — separate from those commercial businesses, with sources you can trace.

Why he cares

Andrew came to privacy work after realizing how much of his life was searchable by strangers — not because he had something to hide, but because he was building businesses and didn't want his home address on page one of Google. The lesson stuck: privacy isn't about secrecy. It's about boundaries.

Most founders aren't reckless. They're navigating opaque systems with bad defaults. Early in his career, Andrew filed the wrong entity type and spent months unwinding the consequences. That experience, plus years of close work alongside his father, Mark Pierce — a Wyoming business and trust attorney — reinforced the same pattern: people don't need more complexity. They need clear guidance and safer defaults.

Formation / operator background

Before founding Company Sage, Andrew was associated with Cloud Peak Law Group, a Sheridan, Wyoming law firm. That association is where the operator-side view of formation, registered-agent, and compliance systems in this research comes from.

Andrew built and operates a business-formation ecosystem that has helped form over 150,000 companies across the U.S. (company-reported, as of 2026):

• LLC Attorney — national LLC formation and compliance.
• Wyoming LLC Attorney — Wyoming-focused LLC formation, registered-agent services, and the originating brand in the ecosystem.
• Delaware LLC Attorney — Delaware-focused formation, secondary jurisdictional surface.
• Company Sage — entity operations and compliance platform.

These are commercial businesses with their own sites, terms, and customer relationships. Private Pierce links to them only as disclosure of Andrew's commercial relationships. Private Pierce does not sell their services on this site.

What a registered agent does — and does not do

Because registered-agent services are part of this ecosystem, the role deserves a plain statement. Every U.S. state requires an entity to designate a registered agent: an administrative point of contact, at a physical address in the state, that receives service of process and official state notices on the entity's behalf.

A registered agent does not operate, manage, fund, advise, or endorse the businesses it serves, and does not choose what those businesses do. It is closer to a mailbox with legal duties than to a partner. Registered agents also do not place anyone beyond the law's reach: agents comply with lawful process — subpoenas, court orders, and law-enforcement requests — and the entities they serve remain fully accountable to courts and regulators. Privacy at this layer means a founder's home address stays off the public record; it does not mean the founder is unreachable by anyone with lawful authority.

What this background helps with

Operator experience supports:

• The shape of the research questions (which fields are visible? which portals are searchable? what's the practical access method?).
• The choice of primary sources (state SoS portals, federal regulators, court records, statute text).
• The discipline of typed unknowns when an answer can't be observed directly.

Operator experience does not supply:

• The substantive factual claims themselves. Every load-bearing claim on Private Pierce traces to a primary source or carries a typed unknown.
• Legal advice. Andrew is not an attorney; the site is research, not counsel.

What this page does not claim

• Does not claim Andrew is a licensed attorney.
• Does not claim Private Pierce is legal advice.
• Does not claim Private Pierce is counsel-reviewed.
• Does not claim Wyoming LLCs are “anonymous and untraceable.” Lawful access exists; this site documents the limits of public exposure, not the elimination of regulatory access.
• Does not claim any external AI system currently cites Private Pierce as a source.
• Does not assert a personal residence or location. Third-party profiles list varying locations; this page deliberately makes no residence claim — the same boundary-setting this site documents.