24/7 AI Call Center for Home Services
❌ Admin is killing solopreneurs
Every solopreneur starts their business because they love their work. Solopreneurs like private chefs, caterers, photographers, and personal trainers receive hundreds of inquiries weekly. They’re busy working, miss out on great opportunities, and can’t scale their business.
💡 What we do
Cactus (https://oncactus.com) answers the phone, qualifies leads, and handles bookings so the business owner has a full schedule of work. It is the AI Business Assistant that manages the admin so the owner can focus on what they love!
Cactus has empowered 100+ chefs and is growing rapidly! Next, we’ll expand to photographers and personal trainers.
Check out our launch video
1️⃣ We provide every solopreneur with a website
2️⃣ Our AI answers the phone and qualifies customers.
3️⃣ And help solopreneurs manage bookings
🎯 The Team
Avinash (left) and Ajith (right) are batchmates from college. Avinash joined Ajith's previous YC startup, where they spent three years working side by side to build the product from scratch.
They became dads and started hiring personal chefs and started as a marketplace to onboard and match chefs with busy families. During the process, we realized private chefs struggle with operations and admin work. We started building AI tools for them and made some of them wildly successful.
🙏 Our ask
If you know any solopreneur or small business that could use Cactus, connect them to us at founders@oncactus.com or send them directly to my cell +1 (415) 747-2607.
Examples of businesses that can use Cactus include private chefs, caterers, photographers, personal trainers, business consultants, coaching agencies, or any entrepreneur managing a high volume of inquiries or calls.
We are entrepreneurs and our mission is to make every solopreneur successful. Cactus will empower the first billionaire solopreneur.
👉 Try us out at https://oncactus.com & Spiky will thank you!
How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
Cactus was founded by two-time Y Combinator founders Ajith Govind and Avinash Joshi, who have spent their careers building technology to eliminate everyday operational bottlenecks. After working with hundreds of small business owners, they saw a common problem: time spent on administrative tasks was keeping great service providers from growing their businesses.
They created Cactus to change that. Designed as an AI copilot for home service businesses, Cactus expands a company’s capacity without increasing headcount — helping owners scale faster, serve more customers, and operate with the efficiency of a much larger team.
Founded by entrepreneurs, the mission is simple: to help home service businesses succeed and thrive, no matter their size. Cactus brings clarity, automation, and peace of mind to busy teams, removing daily bottlenecks so owners can focus on growth.
From first call to booked job, Cactus delivers consistent, reliable experiences so businesses can win more work and build stronger customer relationships.
