Ash and Adam met at a poker table, went into business together, and launched two cleaning companies at once: Wexford Cleaning in Pittsburgh and Cincy Maid in Cincinnati. Seven months later they posted in our community that they were at almost $25K a month, all on the contractor model. In this Cleaning Company Blueprint hot seat, Ash, Adam, and I get into how they found their first superstar cleaners, why desperation caused every early mistake, how Ash automates the backend with custom GPTs and Zapier, and the pricing model they landed on. Watch the full interview below, then read the complete transcript underneath. To go deeper on two things they talk about, see our guide on how to find cleaners for a cleaning business and our breakdown of whether a cleaning business is profitable. Their pricing model started as bed-bath, then they added square footage as a modifier once they saw how differently two three-bedroom homes could be built, the same debate we walk through in how much to charge for house cleaning.
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What they cover
- 00:00Intro
- 04:12Entrepreneurship in Dubai
- 07:16Reviews through the roof
- 08:48Finding great cleaners
- 13:26Products to use
- 16:29Going weekly
- 19:34The Pittsburgh sweet spot
- 21:05Targeting millennials
- 22:39Diving into AI
- 24:10An AI for new clients
- 30:16Calls ring to both phones
- 36:25How they found us
- 42:34A year-long contract
- 44:06Bidding overseas
- 50:12Working smart, not just hard
- 57:55The Bed Bath start
- 59:28From three hours to two
- 1:10:14Posting jobs
- 1:14:48SEO across two cities
About the author
Victoria Westcott co-founded Cleaning Company Blueprint with her sister Jen. Together they built Oak Bay Clean, their cleaning company in Victoria, BC, to $3M in sales since 2021, running it with a team of contractors. Vic writes these guides from inside the business, sharing the model and the numbers behind it. More about Vic and Jen.
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