Built from scratch
A Shopify store built from scratch, tuned to convert
A Shopify store built from scratch for an art-supplies and gifts brand.
About
Nashville websites since 2020, and the engines behind them
Ryan Hood started the company in 2020, building websites for Nashville businesses. Today we build the engines that keep a business found, find its next customer and do the busywork.
- Nashville since 2020
- Founder-led
- Your data stays yours
Eldrin AI is a Nashville company founded in 2020 by Ryan Hood, a Vanderbilt graduate who lives and works in Brentwood. We have built websites for Nashville businesses since 2020. Now we build engines: one keeps a business found on Google and in AI answers, one finds its next customer, and custom AI automation does the busywork.
The founder, and the rule he builds by
Ryan Hood
Ryan Hood started the company in 2020, after Vanderbilt. He lives and works in Brentwood and meets Middle Tennessee clients in person, at their office or over coffee. He runs the engines on his own company before he sells them to anyone else.
You work with our team: Ryan Hood, our founder, is your direct contact, and one of our developers builds with you.
“Anything that makes a decision runs on a feedback loop; anything front-facing is safeguarded with human approval.”
From websites to engines
For its first years the company built websites and online stores for Nashville businesses, under the name Akira Web Solutions. A good site got a business found and took the order.
Then the way people look for a business changed. They still search Google, and now they also ask ChatGPT and other AI tools who to hire. A site that launched and then sat still slowly stopped showing up in either place.
So we built the engine that keeps a site showing up. Every month it checks where a business appears on Google and in AI answers, writes new pages, fixes the ones it has and shows the numbers. We ran it on our own site first: the engine writes and measures this website. Its articles go live on their own only when every check passes, and one that fails waits for a person.
Now we run it for clients. The same parts became two more engines. The leads engine tells a business-to-business (B2B) company who to sell to next and why now. Custom AI automation takes the jobs that eat a week. On client work, anything a customer will see waits for a person’s approval.
In October 2026 the company took the name Eldrin AI, to match the work. Same founder, same city.
What we build now
Four offers, all built the same way. Most clients start with a website.
Websites that get foundWe build your site for Google and AI answers, then keep working on it every month.
Visibility engineKeep your look and your pages. We move your site onto code we run, then keep it showing up on Google and in AI answers.
Leads engineA short list of who to sell to next, easiest first, each with the reason why now.
AI automationAI for the jobs that eat your week: inquiries, quotes, data entry, after-hours questions.
What we will and won’t do
We will
- Tell you when an app you can buy today already does the job.
- Point you to a system of ours you can check yourself: the engine that writes this website's blog.
- Keep your data in your accounts, and leave it there if you go.
- Put a person between the AI and anything new your customers see.
- Quote a build only after we've seen the work.
We won't
- Publish a price before we know the work.
- Invent a result, a testimonial or a time saving.
- Promise rankings, revenue or a percentage.
- Let an AI write to your customers without your approval.
- Resell your data or pool it with another client's.
How we build
Every engine runs the same loop: it works from data you own, the AI does the job, we check what happened, and the next round improves. The full method, with what the AI may decide alone and where a person steps in, is on its own page.
Read how we build
Earlier builds
Two online stores we built and tuned on Shopify.
Search overhaul
Shopify search overhaul and product presentation
A Shopify SEO overhaul for a Middle Tennessee fine-jewelry retailer.
Common questions
- Where is Eldrin AI based?
- Eldrin AI is based in the Nashville area. Our founder lives and works in Brentwood, and we meet Middle Tennessee businesses in person. Clients anywhere else in the United States work with us over video, the same way.
- Who founded Eldrin AI?
- Ryan Hood, a Vanderbilt University graduate, founded the company in 2020. It was called Akira Web Solutions until October 2026, when it took the name Eldrin AI.
- What does Eldrin AI do?
- We build engines for businesses. We build websites that show up on Google and in AI answers, and our visibility engine keeps them found every month. The leads engine tells a B2B company who to sell to next and why now, and custom AI automation takes the busywork. Replies, outreach and prices wait for your yes.
- How is Eldrin AI different?
- Two rules run through everything we build. Anything the AI decides runs on a feedback loop, and on client work anything a customer will see waits for a person to approve it. The engines keep running after launch, get checked against what actually happened, and your data stays yours.
See where your business shows up.
The free check shows how you appear on Google and in AI answers. Want to talk first? We're glad to meet in Nashville, Brentwood or Franklin.