Run a house cleaning business from Claude or ChatGPT

The office work of a cleaning company is repeating visits, a price the customer already agreed to, and an invoice that goes out when the clean is done. Doing Work keeps those, and Claude or ChatGPT works them once the assistant is connected at https://doingwork.work/mcp. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off.

Tuesday houses and the biweekly ones

Book the standing clean as a repeating visit. Weekly, every other week (weekly, every 2), or monthly all fit, up to 104 visits booked now. Cancel the series when the customer pauses, without deleting the history of cleans you already did. A maintenance plan is a different thing: it bills a term of 1 to 60 months and can say how many visits that term includes. Use the plan when you charge for the term. Use the repeating visit when you just need them on the calendar.

Doing Work will not sort the houses into a driving order. If you want a new order, your assistant reads the day's stops, uses a maps tool you pick, and saves the times and cleaners in one step. That ordering is the assistant's, not a Doing Work map.

The first clean, the checklist, and the money

A first deep clean and a weekly maintenance clean are two lines, or two options if the customer is choosing. The quote link is how they sign. They can pay a deposit on that page. Later visits can invoice from the signed quote, or you can write an invoice with no new quote. Card and bank go to your Stripe account. A customer who saved a card can be on autopay, which you turn on per customer.

Checklists are the part cleaners notice. Copy a template onto the visit: kitchen, baths, the oven they always forget. The visit cannot be marked done while a required item is open or a sign-off is missing. Notes you add stay inside the shop. The customer never sees them. What the customer sees is a recap, and only after a person whose role may send the recap says to send it.

Crews of two

Save a named crew, or put two people on the visit and ask for a time when both are free. Each cleaner can have a private calendar feed of their own visits for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook. The feed is read only, and you can turn the link off. There is no app for them to install. Tomorrow's kit list, if you ask for it, shows the address, the work from the quote, open checklist items, pinned notes, and the latest photos. A field worker sees only their own list.

Ask it like this

  • "Book Maria and Jen at the Keller house every other Tuesday at 9 for the next 26 visits. Warn me if either is off."
  • "Draft a quote with a deep clean option and a weekly option. Do not send it until I say."
  • "Put the move-out checklist on today's visit. Do not mark it done."
  • "Who has had no clean in 6 months? List them and do not email anyone yet."

That last one is the win-back list: customers with no visit in a while. The email still waits for a person. Read quickstart before the first real house, and AI for the shop you already run in chat.

Price

The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. A slow month with no payments through Doing Work costs nothing. Pricing. Cleaning shops usually compare Jobber, Housecall Pro, and software with no monthly fee.

Questions owners ask

Cleaning owners ask about the calendar and the invoice, not about parts.

What AI assistant handles quotes and invoices for a cleaning business?

Doing Work does, from ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok, after you connect it. The assistant drafts the recurring price and the invoice. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off. The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription.

Can I book a weekly clean for the next year?

You can book a repeating visit daily, weekly, or monthly, up to 104 visits at a time. Weekly for a year is inside that. Times repeat in the shop's time zone. If a cleaner is already booked or off, you get a warning, not a silent double book.

How do I stop a clean from being marked done when the oven was skipped?

Put a checklist on the visit. Required items block marking the visit done. The owner can override that only on a hosted page, with a reason. An assistant cannot override it.

Do cleaners get a login and a per-person fee?

They get an invite as office or field. There is no per-person price, and workers are unlimited. The terms also name a lead role. The invite screen offers office or field.

Can a new lead get a reply before I am back from a job?

If you turn lead replies on, Doing Work sends one first reply within a minute. A text goes only where the customer agreed to texts and your own number is approved for business texting. Otherwise it is an email. Leads from Thumbtack, Networx, Google, and Yelp get an email. After hours you can offer the first open time or hold the lead for the morning.