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Cactus

24/7 AI Call Center for Home Services

Cactus is the 24/7 AI call center built for home service businesses. Our AI answers calls, qualifies customers, books jobs, and follows up automatically, helping business owners capture more leads and retain more customers - all without hiring additional staff.
Active Founders
Ajith Govind
Ajith Govind
Co-Founder & CEO
2x YC Founder. Entrepreneur at heart with computer science background. Building Cactus to empower every solopreneur in the world to succeed. Previously built Turing Labs W20, Series A raising over $20M. I collaborated closely with most of the Top 20 CPGs, including P&G, Unilever, Nestle, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Mars, and many others, delivering over $65M in impact. Personal motto: Never give up!
Avinash Joshi
Avinash Joshi
Co-founder & CTO
I'm a Rails programmer, a builder and love coding. I fell in love with computers at a very young age. Over the years I've shipped products across various programming languages and frameworks, including HTML+CSS, PHP, Python, Django, React, Angular, and Rails. From right-click save as HTML to left-click vibecoding, I've built it all! I have a simple mantra - "It’s Possible."
Company Launches
Cactus - AI copilot for solopreneurs 🚀
See original launch post

❌ 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!

YC Photos
Cactus
Founded:2024
Batch:Spring 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Tom Blomfield