“April is a shoebox and a weekend.”
Every job shows what you billed, what labor cost and what you kept — and every expense goes in as it happens. At tax time you hand it over instead of rebuilding the year from receipts.
Jobs go out to your whole team and get claimed. Applicants record a video interview and onboard themselves. Payroll adds itself up. You get the Sunday nights back and the hours go into selling instead.
No card for fourteen days. Bring your team and clients in from a spreadsheet.
I run a maid service and a commercial cleaning company. Akye is what we run on.
A job goes out by text to every cleaner at once. They see when it is, what it is, the area and what it pays — never the address. First to claim it gets it, and the address appears only once the job is theirs.
If they change their mind they drop it and it goes straight back out. Big house? Make it a crew job with three spots and the first three take it, each on their own pay. Nobody can claim a job that clashes with their day, travel time included. Spanish-speaking cleaner? The text arrives in Spanish.
And when you want a specific person on a specific house, you still just assign them.
The full address appears once it’s yours.
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Applicants record a video interview on their own time. You watch it on yours. No interviews scheduled around your jobs, no candidates who never show up.
Questions come in English or Spanish, and a Spanish answer translates to English in one tap — so you hire the best cleaner, not the one who interviews best in English.
Like them? One button sends the conditional offer and the background check together. Forms, documents and orientation run themselves from there.
“April is a shoebox and a weekend.”
Every job shows what you billed, what labor cost and what you kept — and every expense goes in as it happens. At tax time you hand it over instead of rebuilding the year from receipts.
“Payroll is a Sunday night and a shoebox.”
Per-job pay, crew splits and 1099s that fill themselves in. No more paying from memory, and no more finding a mistake in March.
“My cleaners won’t download an app.”
They get a text. They tap it. The job is there. Every competitor makes a cleaner download an app, make an account and remember a password — then pays for the support calls when she can’t log in.
“They say we never showed.”
Timestamped photos and a finished checklist on every job. Next time a commercial client disputes a visit, you send a link instead of an apology.
Cleaning companies in the US
Have no email a customer can find
Have no website at all
We built a page for every one of them. Six in ten list no email address a customer could use — so when somebody can’t reach them, they call whoever they can reach. Look yourself up and see which side of that you’re on.
Every other tool in this category was built by people who have never quoted a move-out clean, never had a cleaner call out at 6am, and never had to explain a short paycheck to somebody who trusted them.
I have. Akye is the system my own company runs on. It’s the one I needed.
The hardest part of this business isn’t the cleaning or the invoicing. It’s that somebody quit, somebody didn’t show, and Saturday has nobody on it.
So we built a list. People in your area who want cleaning work and asked to be shown to companies near them — their town, how they get around, how far they’ll travel, and whether they speak Spanish. You call them yourself.
It’s new, so it’s thin. We’d rather say that than pretend otherwise. But it costs nothing to look, and one good cleaner pays for a year of this.
Offices, daycares, gyms and clinics are what turn a cleaning job into a cleaning business — recurring, contracted, and they don’t cancel because they went on holiday.
Akye finds them near you and keeps the list moving: who you rang, what they said, what happens next and when it’s due. It opens on today — the four people to chase this morning, not two hundred rows in import order. Nobody falls through.
Changing plans changes capacity, never who owns your records. Nothing is ever deleted.
Where most cleaning companies land.
Multiple crews, multiple buildings.
You start on the top plan for fourteen days, and the fourteen days begin when you assign your first job — not when you sign up. No card, then or ever, unless you decide to pay. After that you drop to the free plan and keep everything you entered: five cleaners stay five, you just can’t add a sixth.
Some of them you pay in money and some in evenings, but you are paying for all four right now.
That is what I pay for one booked commercial walkthrough. One lead costs more than a month of this, and the prospect list is in the price.
That is Indeed’s floor per sponsored role, at roughly $5–8 an application for this kind of work. Here applicants interview themselves on video and you watch the ones worth watching.
Expenses go in as they happen. April stops being a shoebox and a weekend.
One broadcast, and the team claims the work. You assign a job only when you want a particular person on a particular house.
Replace any one of them and it has paid for itself. Most owners are paying for all four.
Neither are mine. If they can take a picture with their phone, they can use Akye.
Then the only question is whether it tells you which jobs make money and proves you showed up. If it does, keep it.
Bring your clients and your crew in a spreadsheet. Start with next week’s schedule, not your whole history.
Fourteen days on the top plan, no card. If it doesn’t fit, you drop to the free plan and keep your records. You have genuinely lost nothing.