Service

AI agents that do the work, not demos that impress

Priced against the salary it replaces, not the hours it takes. An agent that handles quotations around the clock costs less in one payment than an ops coordinator costs in one year.

What an agent build actually is

AI agent development in India costs ₹2,50,000 to ₹4,50,000 for a production system and takes 5 to 8 weeks. That covers agents wired into your real workflow, retrieval over your own documents and price lists, human approval gates on anything that touches money or a customer, cost-routed model selection so you are not paying frontier prices for routine work, and monitoring so you can see what the system did and why.

The comparison that matters: one operations coordinator in India costs ₹3,50,000 to ₹6,00,000 a year fully loaded, works eight hours, and takes leave. A one-time ₹3,00,000 system runs continuously and does not need onboarding.

What I actually run on this

ZeroTheory AI is an incorporated Pvt Ltd where the workforce is a governed agent fleet rather than employees. The delivery model is the product — when I build an agent system for you, I am building the thing I use to run my own company.

TripWire, built for the Microsoft agentic-security hackathon, is a five-layer security model for exactly this problem: what stops an agent doing something expensive, irreversible or wrong. Every client build inherits those controls.

Where agents are the wrong answer

If a task runs once a week and takes ten minutes, automation will cost more than it saves — I will tell you that on the first call rather than after the invoice. Agents earn their price on high-volume, rule-heavy, judgement-light work: quotations, order intake, document extraction, follow-up sequences, reconciliation.

Common questions

How much does AI automation cost in India?
A production AI agent system costs ₹2,50,000 to ₹4,50,000 and takes 5 to 8 weeks. Judge it against the salary it displaces: one ops coordinator is ₹3,50,000–6,00,000 a year fully loaded, so a one-time system that runs continuously typically pays back inside twelve months.
Will the AI make mistakes that cost me money?
Anything touching money, a customer, or an irreversible action goes through a human approval gate by default. That is a design decision, not an option — it is the same five-layer control model built for TripWire at the Microsoft agentic-security hackathon.
Is my business too small for AI agents?
The test is volume, not size. If one repetitive task consumes more than ten hours a week across your team, an agent will pay for itself. If it does not, I will say so — a ₹3,00,000 system that saves ₹40,000 a year is a bad deal and I would rather not sell it.

Describe the problem in your own words.

No technical language needed. I reply personally within 24 hours. Most engagements start with a ₹35,000 Diagnostic Sprint, credited in full against the project if you proceed within 30 days.

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