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MyClean

An employed-staff cleaning business with online booking and recurring household service. Its central promise is consistent cleaners and operational accountability.

United StatesVisit company websiteReviewed 19 Oct 2026, 19:03 CEST
Broad market already served
MyClean | Best Cleaning Service In NYC with Online Booking19 Oct 2026, 17:52 CEST

The business

Operating company
MyClean, Inc.
Customer
Urban households that buy cleaning regularly, alongside commercial cleaning customers described in the company's public profiles.
Problem
Finding a dependable cleaner, communicating household preferences and resolving poor work can consume the time the customer hoped to save.
Business model
The company sells cleaning visits and recurring schedules. It manages labour, quality control and customer support rather than selling only a software subscription.
Founders or team
Michael D. Scharf; Mike Russell; Justin Geller; Lee Finkel; Jordan Saxe

Product existence

Current commercial website, detailed service terms, a longstanding award record and public customer accounts support an operating cleaning business. The pilot did not book a cleaning, validate payroll or inspect corporate registration.

Evidence of success

Inc.'s own record confirms a historical 2015 ranking. Public reviews support actual transactions but include adverse recent accounts and older praise. Current revenue, profitability, retention and staffing were not independently verified. MyClean is a useful operational example, not established proof that its present quality or economics are strong.

Financial evidence

The homepage observed on 19 October 2026 lists starting prices of USD 92 per Standard visit, USD 140 per Standard Plus visit and USD 318 for Deep or Moving Clean. These are starting visit prices, not monthly subscriptions or revenue. Final scope, postcode, discounts, tax and checkout total were not tested. Historical directory revenue must not be treated as current sales.

Original directory revenue record

$750,000.00 in collector-normalized USD. self reported. Period: monthly rate.

Source update: 2017-03-27. Collection date and revenue period are different. The export omits a currency field. The original collector specification and storage schema label the values USD; settlement currency was not independently checked. The amount is not independent proof of current revenue.

Open directory entry

Evidence and findings

Success evidence

Observed

Inc.'s own profile confirms a number-494 ranking for 2015. That supports historical recognition rather than current revenue or healthy present economics.

The public profile does not supply a current audited financial series.

MyClean 2015 Inc. 5000 honoree profile

Customer experience

Observed

Public US reviewer accounts include recent complaints about incomplete work and support. Older favourable reports also appear. The company's quality promise warrants investigation instead of automatic acceptance.

These are selected self-reports, not verified incidents or representative satisfaction data. Possible namesake reviews from other countries were excluded from the interpretation.

Public MyClean customer accounts

Service recovery

Analysis

The published guarantee has reporting deadlines and excluded categories. A reliability-focused entrant would need to deliver a workable correction process as well as an attractive booking page.

The displayed terms date from January 2023. No conclusion about legal enforceability or any individual dispute was made.

MyClean terms of servicePublic MyClean customer accounts

Managed local substitute

Observed

Profi-Clean advertises stable teams, written cleaning plans and fixed recurring prices in Frankfurt. The reliability proposition already has a local managed-service competitor.

The vendor's actual capacity and ability to serve a chosen household segment remain untested.

Profi-Clean Frankfurt managed cleaning

Source validation

Observed

BOOK A TIGER's Frankfurt copy describes employed cleaners, but its current household booking links point to Helpling. Treating the copy alone as proof of a separate active offer would overstate competitor evidence.

The linked booking destinations were observed; present corporate ownership and every service line were not investigated.

BOOK A TIGER Frankfurt page and booking destinations

German transfer economics

Analysis

The published sector wage floor is only one cost input. A managed service must also cover travel, payroll costs, scheduling gaps, supervision and corrections before claiming sustainable pricing.

No German unit economics or customer price was estimated from the wage floor alone. Applicability needs checking for a specific business model.

German building-cleaning pay agreementsMyClean terms of service

Opportunity interpretation

Analysis

The pilot finds a crowded category. A compact premium service could still succeed through better delivery, but the research has not established an underserved Frankfurt customer segment.

Local customer interviews and dated supplier quotes would be needed to distinguish an actual service gap from ordinary competition.

Helpling Frankfurt household cleaningExtraSauber Frankfurt booking serviceProfi-Clean Frankfurt managed cleaningFrankfurt households by size, source CSV

Historical public social activity

Company claim

A bounded public X sample linked MyClean to cleaning-service promotions dated March 2018. It adds historical identity context, without establishing current trading performance.

A bounded public social sample is not an exhaustive history, a sentiment study or a verification of financial success.

MyClean public X sample

Public activity

These bounded samples preserve the displayed post text, canonical links and dates in the research database. A profile may surface pinned posts, reposts or truncated text. This is not a complete timeline or independent proof of commercial success.

myclean on X

9 public posts recorded. Observed 19 Oct 2026, 19:00 CEST.

Post dates in this sample: 21 Feb 2018, 20:14 CET to 15 Mar 2018, 20:26 CET.

German alternatives and substitutes

ExtraSauber

Cleaning booking portal with provider checks and fixed quotes

Overlaps with transparent booking, materials and repeat appointments. A managed entrant would have to prove better delivery rather than assume the online booking step is missing.

ExtraSauber Frankfurt booking service

Website captures

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MyClean | Best Cleaning Service In NYC with Online Booking19 Oct 2026, 17:52 CEST
myclean.com/terms-of-service19 Oct 2026, 17:52 CEST
Gebäudereinigung Frankfurt am main | Profi-clean Meisterbetrieb19 Oct 2026, 17:55 CEST
MyClean (@MyClean) / X19 Oct 2026, 18:04 CEST

Open questions

  • Which local households recently changed cleaners, and what concrete failure caused the switch?
  • Do existing managed firms have available recurring appointments in the chosen districts at an acceptable price?
  • What premium would customers pay for replacement capacity and measured correction times?
  • Can one compact service area support paid travel, stable workers and replacement cover?
  • What independent evidence supports MyClean's current retention, staff stability and financial performance?

Research limits

  • Research date is 19 October 2026 in Europe/Berlin. Prices and website claims are dated observations.
  • No cleaning was booked, no checkout was completed and no customer, supplier or employee was contacted.
  • The foreign company's current revenue and profitability remain unverified. Its review headline is a company claim.
  • Customer review posts are individual allegations or opinions. They do not prove fraud or establish representative service quality; likely namesake posts were excluded.
  • BOOK A TIGER's employee copy and current booking destinations differ. Its current independent household offering was not assumed.
  • Household counts describe the city and districts at 31 December 2025. They do not describe cleaning spend or willingness to pay.
  • Public X coverage was refreshed in the Mac browser on 19 October 2026. The bounded sample may include pinned posts, reposts and truncated displayed text; it is not an exhaustive timeline or independent financial verification.

Sources

Source publication dates and our capture dates are recorded separately. Company claims remain attributed to the company.

  1. MyClean presents employed cleaners, repeat assignments, app-based quality monitoring and human support as its operating model. It advertises Standard, Standard Plus, Deep and Moving visits with starting prices. The headline review total is self-published. The page establishes the current sales proposition, while actual staffing, quality and financial performance require separate evidence.

    companyPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:52 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. No booking or checkout occurred. Company operating and review claims were not audited.

  2. The terms identify MyClean, Inc. and describe service scope, supplied equipment, cancellation, damage reporting and a conditional reclean process. Some cleaning categories are excluded from the guarantee. The terms make the operational burden behind the promise visible. Their displayed update date is January 2023, so a customer's actual current agreement could differ.

    company16 Jan 2023Archived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:52 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. Page states last updated 16 January 2023. This pilot did not interpret enforceability or test the claims process.

  3. MyClean founder and team profilesMyClean and individual profile holders via Wellfound

    The public company profiles identify Michael D. Scharf, Mike Russell, Justin Geller, Lee Finkel and Jordan Saxe as founders. Profiles also describe earlier finance and other startup roles. These are self-supplied professional histories with unclear update dates. They help identify the founding group but do not establish current ownership, executives or staffing.

    socialPublication date not establishedDirect archive unavailable · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. Historical profile statements were used only for founder identity; directory employee and funding figures were excluded from current financial evidence.

  4. Public MyClean customer accountsIndividual reviewers via Trustpilot

    Visible US reviewer accounts include recent complaints about incomplete work and support, alongside older praise for cleaner quality and recurring bookings. These are customer allegations and opinions, not verified incident reports. Some posts refer to other countries and may concern namesakes. The page itself warns that recent reviews may not represent the customer base.

    customerPublication date not establishedDirect archive unavailable · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. Relevant examples include a 25 June 2025 US review and a 17 February 2026 US review. No aggregate satisfaction conclusion was drawn.

  5. The award issuer's own profile lists MyClean at number 494 for 2015. It identifies a New York business founded in 2009 and describes online booking and card payment for residential and commercial cleaning. This is a dated third-party record of historical recognition. It does not publish a verified current revenue or profitability measure.

    public dataPublication date not establishedDirect archive unavailable · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. The ranking refers to 2015. The profile's employee figure was not used as a current workforce count.

  6. Helpling offers selection and recurring booking of self-employed cleaners in Frankfurt, with individual prices and separate platform fees. Its page gives an indicative EUR 16.90 to EUR 20.40 hourly range, but contains conflicting service-fee text and references to Hamburg districts. The offer is a clear substitute; a precise local price requires a real dated quote.

    competitorPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. No postcode checkout, provider availability or final fee was tested. Stale or inconsistent copy was preserved as a limitation.

  7. ExtraSauber markets Frankfurt home and office cleaning with recurring scheduling, provider profiles, online administration and fixed quotes. It says it checks business documents and insurance, and includes cleaning materials in quoted work. This overlaps with convenience and accountability claims. The public page does not establish actual appointment availability or the quality of every provider.

    competitorPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. Verification and insurance statements are vendor claims; no booking or independent insurance check occurred.

  8. The Frankfurt page retains copy about trained employees and consistent cleaners. Its household booking links now point to Helpling, while business enquiries point to Tiger Facility Services. This is evidence of a changing offer rather than reliable proof of a separate active employed-cleaner household service. The destination links matter more than the older explanatory copy.

    competitorPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. Link targets were inspected in the fetched page. No independent active household operation was assumed.

  9. This local managed cleaning firm advertises household and commercial work in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main. Its proposition includes named regular teams, a site visit, a cleaning plan and fixed recurring prices. These claims directly overlap with a premium reliability proposition. They establish an existing local offer, while response times, capacity and customer outcomes remain untested.

    competitorPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:55 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. Vendor claims about history, teams and service were not independently verified. No enquiry was sent.

  10. Frankfurt households by size, dataset metadataStadt Frankfurt am Main, Bürgeramt, Statistik und Wahlen

    The city's dataset describes household sizes by district, with a register-based time series ending at 31 December 2025. Its metadata gives a 2 June 2026 update date and an attribution licence. It is useful for geographic customer-density context. Household size does not measure income, cleaning purchases or willingness to pay a premium for reliability.

    public data02 Jun 2026Archived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. The published_at field records the stated last-update date, not the survey reference date.

  11. Frankfurt households by size, source CSVStadt Frankfurt am Main, Bürgeramt, Statistik und Wahlen

    The 2025 row labelled insgesamt reports 426,293 households, including 230,521 one-person households. District rows appear alongside this city total and must not be added to it. For example, Westend-Süd has 11,829 households and Nordend-West 19,476. These counts support choosing a compact service area, not a conclusion about unmet purchasing demand.

    public dataPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Retrieved directly over HTTPS and parsed as semicolon-delimited CSV on 19 October 2026 after web rendering rejected the CSV content type. Figures refer to 31 December 2025 according to the metadata.

  12. German building-cleaning pay agreementsBundesinnungsverband des Gebäudereiniger-Handwerks

    The employers' association publishes the sector's wage agreements and states an entry-level sector minimum of EUR 15 per hour from 1 January 2026 for covered commercial cleaning employees. It also describes generally binding agreement rules. This is a labour-cost input, not a feasible customer price. Travel, employer costs, supervision and unfilled time still need a local operating model.

    public dataPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Opened publicly on 19 October 2026. This records the association's published agreement information. A proposed business would still need to establish which rules apply to its specific work.

  13. MyClean public company profileMyClean via LinkedIn

    The company's public profile describes a transition from an online booking engine founded in 2009 to a staffed cleaning operation. It lists New York headquarters and residential and commercial cleaning specialties. These statements support how the company defines itself. Profile employee ranges and follower counts are not a verified present workforce or customer measure.

    socialPublication date not establishedDirect archive unavailable · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    Public profile opened on 19 October 2026; a subsequent partial reopen failed. Only accessible profile text was used. No private employee information was collected.

  14. MyClean's current website links to this account. A public fetch first returned no readable timeline and a later request returned HTTP 403. This pilot therefore makes no social-post-based claims about recent launches, demand or company health. Failure to access the timeline is a coverage gap and says nothing about whether the account is active.

    socialPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 17:51 CEST

    The text tool could not read the timeline. A later Mac-browser visit exposed a bounded public sample, recorded separately.

  15. The website-linked account was readable in the Mac browser. Its visible public sample contained promotional posts dated March 2018 and linked back to MyClean. This provides historical identity context only. The limited logged-out view does not establish the date of the account’s latest activity, current performance or representative customer sentiment.

    companyPublication date not establishedArchived evidence · 19 Oct 2026, 18:04 CEST

    Public logged-out profile sample inspected in the Mac browser on 19 October 2026. The visible sample is bounded and may omit posts.

Research history

  1. Research update
    • Source context or research notes updated.
  2. Research update
    • Added finding: Historical public social activity
    • 1 new source reference.
  3. Initial investigation
    • 11 findings and 14 source references recorded.

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