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Our Story & Mission

We Hated Missed Calls.
So We Fixed Them.

We kept watching local service businesses lose booked jobs from missed calls. Zero Headache answers instantly & books the job.

Sipho Mahlangu, roofing, JohannesburgHamish Caldwell, auto repair, ManchesterSander de Vries, dental practices, AmsterdamCamille Laurent, med spas, ParisLucía Vargas, cleaning services, Madrid

Trusted by 250+ Founders

AI Front Desk for Service Businesses.

Our Mission

Zero Headache stops missing leads for local service businesses. We build AI agents that responds to leads, qualify the leads, book the appointments, and sync everything to your CRM. So business owners can focus on the actual work instead of the phone.

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Our Vision

Consumers expect immediate answers. We provide a fully managed service so local businesses can answer every lead and schedule every job 24 hours a day. This eliminates the need for human dispatchers and ensures no lead is lost to voicemail.

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Three things we know to be true about local businesses.

Local business trades

1. Operators should focus on the work, not the phone.

Running a local service business requires direct attention to the job at hand. Answering incoming calls interrupts the workflow. Relying on technicians to double as dispatchers slows down operations and introduces scheduling errors.

2. Marketing is useless if nobody answers.

Businesses pay to drive traffic to their websites and phone numbers. When a lead reaches voicemail, they usually hang up and call a competitor. A lead answered within two minutes is far more likely to book than one called back in thirty. Speed is the single biggest factor in who gets the job.

3. Response time determines who gets the job.

Customers prioritize immediate communication when hiring local services. The first business to answer the phone and schedule the job wins it 80% of the time. Speed beats price. Speed beats brand. Speed beats everything except being already on the roof.

The Brains Behind

Meet the Team Behind the Platform.

Our founders combine years of building global AI systems with hands-on business operations and legal compliance.

Alap Putatunda

Alap Putatunda

Co-founder and CEO

Ran a pharmaceutical company for six years, then stepped back from running it day to day and spent years building AI systems, automations, and websites for clients. He writes the telephony routing, the AI pipelines, and the booking infrastructure behind every deployment.

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Adv. Sayani Pal

Adv. Sayani Pal

Co-founder and COO

A practicing advocate who handles civil and commercial litigation in West Bengal, and oversees legal compliance and operations for Zero Headache. She drafted our BAA agreements (HIPAA), consent policies, and DPDP/GDPR positions, and reviews every deployment in healthcare, law, and other regulated fields before it goes live.

Legal and compliancelegal@zeroheadache.co

What Our Customers Say?

They've Stopped Missing Calls. So Can You.

See how local service operators use our AI agent to answer the leads while you're busy on the job, qualify leads instantly & keep their calendars full.

Massimo Ferretti

Full schedule without lifting the phone.

"My front desk person quit on a Thursday. On the Friday we set this up, and by Monday morning it was booking appointments on its own. I do not really understand how it works, and I do not need to. My calendar has been full since that first week."

Massimo Ferretti

Owner, Weight-loss & Wellness Clinic
Milan, Italy

Aoife Brennan

It actually gets the details right.

"We were losing jobs because no one could answer fast enough. We tried two answering services. One was too expensive, the other kept getting the job details wrong and we would have to call the customer back. This one gets the details right the first time, and most callers do not realize it is not a person."

Aoife Brennan

Office Manager, Plumbing & HVAC Company
Dublin, Ireland

Sipho Mahlangu

The lead is in my CRM before they hang up.

"I almost did not try it. I have been burned by this kind of thing before. We were live in about three days, and it connected to our CRM without me doing anything. My crews get the lead on their phones before the customer has even hung up. That part alone was worth it for us."

Sipho Mahlangu

Founder, Roofing Services Business
Johannesburg, South Africa

Lukas Hoffmann

Every call gets answered now.

"I run a crew of twelve and I am on sites all day. I cannot answer the phone. It used to go to voicemail, and I would hope people called back. Most did not. Now every call gets answered and I get a text with the details. That is the whole thing for me."

Lukas Hoffmann

Owner, Landscaping Company
Munich, Germany

Hamish Caldwell

My advisors can focus on the cars now.

"People call us all day for oil changes, tyres, estimates. We used to miss maybe thirty percent of calls during the busy hours. Now every one of them gets answered, and most get booked on the call. My service advisors can actually focus on the cars in front of them instead of the phone."

Hamish Caldwell

General Manager, Chain of Auto Repair Shops
Manchester, UK

Lucía Vargas

Like a receptionist I can finally afford.

"I started this business from my flat and I still cannot afford a full-time receptionist. This answers my calls, sends out the quotes, and books the walkthrough, all while I am out actually cleaning houses. It is the best money I spend every month."

Lucía Vargas

Owner, Cleaning Services Company
Madrid, Spain

Sander de Vries

Patients do not realise it is not a person.

"What sold me is that it does not sound like one of those awful phone menus. Patients talk to it normally and it books them in. We had an older patient call last month and she asked the receptionist in our office when our new receptionist had started. She had been talking to the agent the whole time."

Sander de Vries

Operations Head, Chain of Dental Practices
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Henrik Lindqvist

We cut response time without hiring.

"We manage about two hundred units across four properties. The maintenance requests alone were drowning our office staff. Now a tenant calls, the agent logs everything, creates the ticket, and we dispatch. We cut our response time in half, and we did not hire anyone new."

Henrik Lindqvist

Director, Property Management Company
Stockholm, Sweden

Callum Gallagher

Support answered me at 11 at night.

"We had a strange issue with how it was syncing to our calendar at about 11 at night. I sent a message not expecting a reply till morning. They got back to me in maybe twenty minutes and had it sorted before I went to bed. I have not had support like that from a vendor in years."

Callum Gallagher

Owner, Electrical Services Business
Brisbane, Australia

Camille Laurent

The first one I trust with our patients.

"I have looked at a lot of these AI phone tools for our locations. Most of them fall apart the second a caller goes off script. This is the first one where I actually trust it with our patients. Bookings are up, no-shows are down, and my front desk team is not burned out anymore."

Camille Laurent

VP Operations, Group of Med Spas
Paris, France

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight Answers, No Fine Print.

Setup, pricing, what the AI can and cannot say, who owns your data, and how the guarantee actually works. If something here does not answer your question, ask us directly. We will tell you the truth, including when we are not the right fit.

Zero Headache is a fully managed, AI-native service that answers every inbound lead (phone calls, texts, emails, web chat, lead forms, social DMs), qualifies them against your custom business rules, and books confirmed appointments directly onto your calendar. Every booking, transcript, and customer detail then syncs straight into your CRM. We also reach back out to leads who went quiet, recover customers who no-showed, and reactivate clients who haven't been seen in a while. We operate 24/7/365 so you never miss a lead, even at 9 PM on a Sunday.
Fully managed: we build it, we tune it.

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Zero Headache.

Local service businesses lose an average of 40% inbound leads to missed calls and slow replies. We deploy a custom AI agent that responds to every lead, qualifies it, and books the appointment straight onto your calendar & CRM, 24/7.

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