Neil Parak
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So I am the creator of the brand.
I started this in 2013.
I was working in tech venture capital for a few years before doing this kind of as a side hustle.
So now I am running two corporate locations for this and we have two franchises as well.
So we just started the franchise operations a few months ago.
Cleaning services for vacation rental.
So there is kind of a gap in the market where a lot of short-term rentals have popped up, Airbnb's, VRBO's, things like that.
And they need a proper cleaning service, which could use a lot of tech, right?
Typically, a lot of cleaners are not very tech savvy, but these vacation rentals have quick turnovers.
They need someone to be able to sync with their calendars, to automatically see when guests are checking out, to be able to report low supplies, damages, things like that.
So we kind of help be the middleman between usually the low tech cleaners as well as the hosts, kind of automate the entire process for that.
There's a marketplace model here.
Exactly.
Yep.
So it is what I'd call like a local marketplace model, right?
Because we are a localized business.
And this one part I want to clarify with vacation rentals, Airbnb, any local model reviews are so king, right?
You can't just do like a...
The biggest competitor is called Handy, which is like an Uber-type service for cleaning.