In this episode, I sat down with Ajith and Avinash, the co-founders of Cactus—an AI copilot for small business owners to automate admin work. Think Jarvis for Ironman.

We dive into how personal pain points sparked the idea, why they ditched microservices for a Ruby on Rails monolith, and how building slow and listening deeply to users has shaped their approach.

From lessons at YC to finding product-market fit by watching what customers do (not just what they say), this is a raw, tactical look into building useful AI that stays out of the way and lets small business owners focus on what they actually care about.