The first clean is not the sale. The twentieth is.
An estimator that prices without a site visit, recurring plans instead of one-off jobs, crew routing, and auto-charge when the work is done.
Both voices are synthesized and the business is one of our own examples. This is what the agent does, not a customer’s call.
Talk to the front desk of a cleaning company.
A live agent answering as North Star Cleaning, quoting only from that shop’s price book. Ask it for a price the book does not hold and watch it refuse rather than guess.
Call the North Star Cleaning front desk.
It answers with the recording notice, quotes only from that shop’s price book, and books against real slots — and it refuses to guess at anything the book does not contain. Ask it for a price it does not have and watch what it does.
Nothing is recorded and nothing is stored. You can type instead of talking. Both voices in the recording below are synthesized; this one is a live model answering you.
What decides whether a cleaning company keeps a customer?
Cleaning is a recurring-revenue business that is usually sold like a one-off job. What decides retention is not the first clean; it is whether the second, sixth and twentieth happen without anyone chasing them. That makes the quote and the schedule the whole product: a price the customer can get without waiting for a site visit, a visit that recurs on its own, and a charge that lands when the work is done rather than a week later. Orabeam builds cleaning sites where a square-footage and room-count estimator returns a real range from the company's own rate card, and converts to a recurring plan rather than to a single booking. Underneath, the module holds crew routes and drive time between visits, the recurring schedule with skip and pause, and auto-charge on completion. The AI front desk answers, quotes inside the owner's bounds, and reschedules a skipped visit instead of losing it.
The quote and the schedule are the product. A price that needs a site visit loses to a price that does not, and a visit that needs chasing stops happening. First-party: how the trade works. No published split we can stand behind.
Three things we build in for cleaning companies.
Price it without the site visit
Square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, frequency. A range from your own rate card beats a callback tomorrow.
Sell the plan, not the clean
Weekly, every two weeks, monthly, priced as a plan. A one-off booking is a customer you have to sell again in a two weeks.
Charge on completion
The card runs when the crew marks the visit done. Invoicing a residential clean a week later is how receivables happen to cleaning companies.
What a generic CRM cannot hold for a cleaning company.
This is the Command tier, and it is the reason it exists. These are not custom fields.
- Square-footage and room-count estimator against your own rate card
- Recurring visit schedules with skip, pause and make-up visits
- Crew routing with drive time between properties
- Auto-charge on completion, with the card on file held by the processor
- Property access notes, keys, alarm codes and pets, held per address
Running software. No sign-up.
Buy the software once. Pay monthly only for the AI.
Running & Care is $79 a month — roughly one booked standard clean. The AI front desk plans start at $297 and include it.
Launch
$1,000 one-time, and yours
Look credible, stop losing web leads. One location.
Thirty days, three numbers, or your money back.
Growth
$1,500 one-time, and yours
The phone answered. The quote followed through.
Thirty days, three numbers, or your money back.
Command
$2,500 one-time, and yours
Multi-location, or compliance a generic CRM cannot hold.
Thirty days, three numbers, or your money back.