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Elijah Purcell is the Founder/CEO of Purcell Ventures LLC, a Tuscaloosa, Alabama AI and software company (a Georgia LLC) he formed in April 2025 at seventeen. The company builds AI systems and custom software for small businesses and advises owners on using them. He runs it while studying at the University of Alabama.

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Elijah Purcell is the Founder/CEO of Purcell Ventures LLC, which builds AI systems and custom software for small businesses, and a University of Alabama student in the Class of 2030.

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Elijah Purcell is the Founder/CEO of Purcell Ventures LLC, a software company he registered in Georgia in April 2025, at seventeen. The company builds AI systems, custom software and websites for small businesses, and Elijah handles the client calls, the scoping and the building himself. He built and runs COSMIC, a system of 57 AI agents in 17 rooms that handles proposals, site audits, security checks, research and outreach. In October 2026 Apple approved Rufus Rideshare, an iPhone app he built for a client, for the App Store. He studies psychology and data science at the University of Alabama, in New College and the Honors College, on a pre-med track toward psychiatry.

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Purcell Ventures LLC is a Tuscaloosa, Alabama AI and software company (a Georgia LLC). It builds AI systems and custom software for small businesses and runs hands-on AI and business consulting. Elijah Purcell founded the company on 8 April 2025. COSMIC, a system of 57 AI agents in 17 rooms, handles its proposals, site audits, research and outreach. More at purcellventures.co.

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Company: Purcell Ventures LLC
Founded: 8 April 2025, as Zultar LLC
Renamed: Purcell Ventures LLC on 27 January 2026, same control number
Registration: Georgia Secretary of State, control number 25075361, filed in Acworth, Georgia
Based in: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Founder: Elijah Purcell, Founder/CEO and sole member
What it builds: AI systems and custom software for small businesses, plus AI and business consulting and websites
AI agents: COSMIC, 57 AI agents in 17 rooms, each one software. The roster
App Store: Rufus Rideshare, a client iPhone app, approved by Apple on 8 October 2026. App Store listing
Education: University of Alabama, New College and the Honors College, Class of 2030, psychology and data science

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The state of Alabama small business websites15.4% of 700 randomly drawn Alabama small business websites had no working home page, and 16.7% carried all three AI search signals the study tested.A freshman runs a company with 57 AI agentsA University of Alabama freshman runs a registered company with COSMIC, 57 AI agents in 17 rooms, and publishes the roster with each agent's limits.A free AI visibility check for any businessThe check reads a business's robots.txt, llms.txt and home page and lists what to fix for AI search.What AI gets wrong inside a small businessFive failures from running AI agents in production, including a gate that always passed and findings that closed themselves.

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The Crimson White quoted Elijah on bringing AI tools to local businesses:

“We work with small businesses in the area, local people and mom-and-pop shops that don't have access to the technologies that a lot of bigger corporations use.”

From UA AI club kicks off year with President Mohler, by Katelin Flemmons, 9 September 2026.

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Press contact

Elijah answers press requests himself and replies within one business day.

Email: elijah@purcellventures.co
Phone or text: (205) 462-7839
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