lumens · noun  /ˈluːmən/

The SI derived unit of luminous flux — the quantity of light being received by a surface. Defined as the amount of light emitted into one unit of solid angle by a source with a luminous intensity of one candela.

In other words: the measure of how much light falls on a surface.

So what does 0 lumens mean?

There are some jobs

NOBODY

wants to do.

Zero lumens. No light. No light in an office means no one is there — the desk is empty, the chair is empty, the fluorescents are off.

We are building AI systems to take on the white collar roles that drain human potential: the repetitive, the rote, the soul-crushing work that nobody actually wants to spend their life doing.

This is 0Lumens Labs. We are turning the lights off.

The Team

Three builders turning operational drag into AI systems of action.

We came together through Georgia's builder and startup community with a shared belief: service businesses should not lose customers to missed calls, messy scheduling, or software that is hard to operate during a busy workday.

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Varun Ahlawat

Co-Founder, CEO

Varun focuses on agent infrastructure, voice AI systems, and dependable product architecture for SpeakOps.

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Shaik Sufyaan

Co-Founder, CTO

Sufyaan focuses on product engineering across frontend, backend services, integrations, and deployment.

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Shwejan Uppala

Co-Founder, CSO and COO

Shwejan focuses on customer discovery, sales, onboarding, and translating service-business operations into product feedback for SpeakOps.

How We Met

The team formed around a practical question: what happens when AI stops being a passive chat layer and starts completing the repetitive operational work that businesses avoid, delay, or lose money on?

Why This Matters

We are building SpeakOps and the 0Lumens platform because businesses need agents that answer, act, integrate, escalate, and report back, without making owners babysit another dashboard.