Cleaning is a task we all know needs to get done but (naturally!) still resent the process. As a result, we procrastinate. What was once a hamper of laundry becomes a sinkful of dishes and an entire apartment to vacuum.
The neverending to-do list is a real thing. And it sucks!
We are all in a crunch for time and looking for ways to fill in the gaps and identify ways we can save time efficiently and inexpensively.
Well, of course. But Harry Potter, we are not. While we don’t have a literal wand, we do have an application with the same name. Enter Wand: a mobile app that connects house cleaners with customers in an empowering, but competitive environment.
Traditionally, mobile apps that give domestic workers the opportunity to find customers require them to adhere to a specific price schedule. With Wand, however, the cleaners are in complete control so have the ability to respond to consumer demand in the way they feel fit to their own business.
With that in mind, Wand aims to empower the service provider--not just provide consumers with an easy solution to their house cleaning woes.
Wand has already gathered enough consumer data to validate our application to a 97% positive response rate and we successfully closed our pre-seed funding round August 2018.
With your investment, you will enable us to have a successful app launch with a cutting edge marketing campaign and an onboarded support team to ensure both our cleaners’ and consumers’ needs are sufficiently met. This application is a user-friendly solution to a problem every person has and will enable freelance cleaners a new option to grow their business in a flexible and customized way.
Join us in improving lives, one household at a time, and with just one Wand.
When you invest you are betting the company’s future value will exceed $8.1M.
For details on the bonus, please see the Offering Summary below.
When we decided to work on this idea, we knew Wand would not be the only option for both cleaners and consumers to choose from. Our distinction is in how we support house cleaners in building their own businesses without taking an inflated percentage of their earnings.
We believe one of the biggest issues for freelance cleaners today is being able to build their own business in an environment that’s supportive yet still competitive. For cleaners who find employment with a major cleaning company, they are at the mercy of that company’s price schedule, as opposed to being able to set their own rates. On the flip side, for cleaners using a website like CraigsList, the assurance that their customer will pay them or that they will even be able to find the right customers is easier said than done.
Our app will give cleaners an effective platform to grow their businesses and consumers an easy, sophisticated way to find the most competitive and experienced cleaners in their neighborhoods.
During a regular brainstorming session, the founders found themselves lingering upon the success of specific service-based applications, it was after taking time to think on what industries were lacking a similar solution that they determined that the Residential Cleaning Industry was the perfect next candidate to integrate this successful model.
With both founders possessing a strong background in digital marketing, business development, and software experience, they knew they had the chops to take their idea forward.
A serial entrepreneur and digital strategist, Ben is bridging full time to Wand fresh out of a CMO position with WRIO Internet OS. Currently, Ben is a co-founder and owner of Wand USA Inc. Following his first exit via acquisition after 9 months in operation, Ben went on to accumulate an additional 5+ years of freelance and software experience working a variety of contracted and full-time positions. Ben is actively utilizing his experience in marketing, development, strategy, PR, campaign management, SEO and customer acquisition full-time through Wand.
As the co-founder and owner of Wand, Andrew has an extensive background in business operations and development. Andrew has built and sold several e-commerce retail stores, and owned and operated an exclusive consulting group local to Denver. (Wand is now the only company in which Andrew has ownership) Some of Andrew’s specialties include operations, strategy/mission execution, branding and vision development, product innovation and digital marketing.
We have created an app that is not only robust in terms of features and capability but also easy and fun to use.
Ability to Find Cleaners Nearby
With Wand, you will be able to find cleaners in your nearby area with the push of a finger. No more searching through Yelp, CraigsList, or dealing with price comparing on multiple sites. The cleaners will have clear profiles with defined price points, making your cleaner selection more seamless than ever before.
Perfect Match
Cleaners’ reviews will be easy to pull up for consumers to select their ideal cleaner.
Cleaners gain multiple advantages by being on Wand, starting with being able to grow their business by setting their own rates. Unfortunately, many other apps create set price points for cleaners to stick to, preventing them from having the flexibility to price up or down depending on consumer demand.
At Wand, our aim is to act more as a supportive median between cleaners and consumers, rather than dictate how cleaners interact and structure their businesses.
Features like our in-app messenger give cleaners and customers a channel to easily and securely communicate specifics of the job.
Cleaners are able to fully customize their profile including details such as prices, personal bio, experience, pictures, and their available supplies.
In developing Wand we’ve put major emphasis on structuring a platform that is not only consumer friendly but equally accommodating and easy to use for the service provider.
The Wand web app is currently in Closed Beta while we bug test our platform and build our network of freelance cleaning professionals. The mobile app is in MVP and we are planning to launch it in tandem w/ the web version when we have the cleaning professionals behind our platform to back demand in our launch territories. We are currently partnering with apartment complexes and other segmented territories to add users to our platform in a controlled manner in the meantime. Completed aspects and functionalities of the application include: UX/UI design, service provider onboarding process, home profiling framework, backend development, and FAQ/self-support tools. With the help of your investment, we will allocate funds towards operations, development and primarily marketing of our initial launch and phase 2 launch by the end of 2019. We are also planning to do a revamp of our platform based on initial data currently being gathered and to be gathered in the coming months as we expose more cleaners and consumers to Wand.
According to Statista, total revenue in the Household Cleaners segment in the United States amounts to US$5,610m in 2018. The market is expected to grow annually by 1.2% (CAGR 2018-2021).
These statistics do not assess how much of this revenue is being derived from cleaners using websites and apps like CraigsList and Task Rabbit.
We believe that one of the biggest issues that cleaners have with traditional companies and our competitors alike is the lack of flexibility. This is especially true in the way they can price their services.
Ultimately, we want our cleaners and consumers to have the freedom to make the best choices in terms of service pricing and service selection. Wand will be secure, but not restrictive. It is important to us to carefully vet onboarded cleaners for quality and experience, however, we want people to be empowered to launch cleaning services that perhaps they have not been able to do before on other websites! Likewise, we want our customers to feel like they have adequate options for cleaners to choose from and the data to make an informed decision when hiring a cleaner.
- Danielle Nguyen
Consumer Interest Survey Subject
-Brandi Odneal
Consumer Interest Survey Subject
With your investment, you will help us change the domestic cleaning landscape for the better. We believe that house cleaners have not yet had a platform to truly provide the most competitive rates to grow their cleaning businesses. We also believe that consumers are being relegated to a limited number of cleaners who have simply accepted rates provided by limiting applications, websites, and maid services.
We want to literally bridge this divide with our application. Your investment will enable us to have a successful launch that will lead to many happy cleaners and customers.
Are you ready for the magic of Wand?
CEO of WAND USA Inc, Andrew Schlack, will be stepping down from his position within the company for a small handful of circumstances including: Inability to dedicate time to the company as a founder and officer, Personal Relocation, Personal Finances, ect. Holding a position in a start-up is a full-time order and often doesn’t bare compensation for a number of years down the road. We are fortunate to have had the resources and knowledge at inception of the mentioned former co-founder, however, due to personal matters relating to the above, Andrew Schlack will be withdrawing his participation from the company and stepping down as director and CEO.
Plan for departure and restructure: Former CEO and Director will be stepping down from his position within the company amicably while opposite co-founder, COO and Director will be assuming the position of CEO as voted unanimously by the board. WAND USA Inc is still very much a start-up entity and this fluidity within the company will allow for a seamless transition as the intimate setting within the corporation has enabled all to be understanding, aware and ready to move forward from the restructure. The Wand team has grown and duties that were normally cross-pollinated by the 2 co-founders will now be taken on, delegated and overseen by new CEO, formerly COO, with the help of the company’s CTO.
Nowadays, the constant pursuit of professional achievements translates into needing different services to facilitate our daily lives and minimize the number of obligations, like maintaining our houses clean.
Receiving private cleaning services in our homes or offices is very common in this society of immediacy where life focuses on more important tasks such as job performance and constant improvement. Therefore, hiring cleaning services is something that we tend to do in the wrong way.
WAND USA Inc. is a startup broker that began its preliminary development in 2017 but was officially founded in The US in July of 2018 around their app-WAND. When we make the distinction of “startup” by its current common definition, we imply that is a new enterprise that stands out in the market sup
As the motto “Help, at your fingertips” implies on WAND’s homepage, through an App with geolocation, people can hire the closest cleaning services by a person with verified capacity according to their area.
According to the information provided by WAND through a press release published in early September, the company recently conducted a survey in downtown Denver (US) to cover and obtain consumer interest and the market needs. The data they gathered is very interesting since they report that 93% of the
Nowadays, the constant pursuit of professional achievements translates into needing different services to facilitate our daily lives and minimize the number of obligations, like maintaining our houses clean. Although the process of hiring a cleaning staff or worker is still not an utterly fluid task
It’s been so complicated to trust in cleaning services for the first time - until now! The WAND company is about to launch a mobile tool to hire your ideal cleaners based on innovative approaches that have already reshaped other sectors of the economy like the transportation and the purchase and...
WAND emulates the methods of companies such as Rover (pet care), LawnGuru (gardening) and the well-known Uber (transport) by opposing the processes of old cleaning corporations that refuse to evolve into the digital era. At the same time aims to compete with websites like Craigslist or Angie's list.
Nowadays, the constant pursuit of professional achievements translates into needing different services to facilitate our daily lives and minimize the number of obligations, like maintaining our houses clean. Although the process of hiring a cleaning staff or worker is still not an utterly fluid task
It’s been so complicated to trust in cleaning services for the first time - until now! The WAND company is about to launch a mobile tool to hire your ideal cleaners based on innovative approaches that have already reshaped other sectors of the economy like the transportation and the purchase and...
Smartphones continue to simplify and streamline our lives in numerous ways, and today, we have options for even the simplest tasks that we have to face on a daily basis.
Company | : | Wand USA Inc. |
Corporate Address | : | 1770 Chestnut Pl Apt 1019, Denver, CO 80202 |
Offering Minimum | : | $9,996.00 |
Offering Maximum | : | $106,995.28 |
Minimum Investment Amount(per investor) | : | $104.72 |
Offering Type | : | Equity |
Security Name | : | Common Stock |
Minimum Number of Shares Offered | : | 1,050 |
Maximum Number of Shares Offered | : | 11,239 |
Price per Share | : | $9.52 |
Pre-Money Valuation | : | $7,996,800.00 |
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Hey all! We've been live for over a month now and wanted to let you in on what we've learned and accomplished since launch!
Who's using WAND??
Since launch, we've had a variety of different users try WAND to alleviate their pain points when it comes to finding a housekeeper, however as mentioned in our last update, we're seeing an expected trend of increased usage by people who add multiple homes and request multiple services per month, showing that our focus on short term rental hosts is paying off! This week, we're kicking off some resident perks and mailers to partner buildings in our launch zones to capture more standard users as well.
We saw some awesome turnouts working the Denver scene last week, thank you to the handful of you that came out to say hi!
What's the Dev team Up to??
Right now, we're hooking up event tracking with Facebook so we can continue to monitor and optimize our Digital Ad sets to engage and acquire new users. We're also being kept very busy with miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements to continue making great 1st impressions for new users.
How can you help??
Download and Use WAND! If we aren't in your area yet and especially if we are, feedback goes a long way to improve our product and maximize your ROI! Drop us a line HERE, or if you're inclined, we encourage you to drop us 5 Stars in your device's app store HERE so we can rank higher for organic search.
Thank you again to our incredible investors who continue to make this progress possible! We're working diligently to maximize WAND's success, investments are being put towards new user acquisition and development, consider joining the team by investing in WAND today!
Best,
-The WAND Team
Happy Monday to our wonderful investors and supporters!
This week we're doing footwork in Denver to grow our user-base in this market. We've been seeing that some of our most enthusiastic initial users are short term rental hosts for platforms such as Airbnb and Home-away which we love because it was during Airbnb hosting here in Denver that we initially saw the problem-opportunity that kick-started our WAND journey.
We'll be hovering and soft pitching to hosts at a variety of meet-ups in the area all week and on Wednesday the 8th, we'll be presenting to the public at Denver's One Million Cups! If you're in the area, we'd love to meet you, you can RSVP and find additional event details HERE.
Presenting at House of Genius in St. Louis -- 2019
Have you used WAND yet?
As a tangible thanks to our investors and supporters in our launch zones, we've made a special Promo - "SESAVE20" - to enter on checkout for 20% any services booked on WAND. Don't worry, awesome cleaners like Stevie-Ann will still get their full payout! Also, if you have used WAND, be sure to tell us what you thought in our 5 question form HERE for $5 off your next service!
We're actively putting your investment dollars to use to scale this awesome product, now, we're all about momentum, momentum, momentum so we can make sure to honor your ROI. If you haven't yet, WAND is scaling into 2020, invest now to join our team of over 175 investors today!
Best,
-The WAND Team
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What a stellar year it's been!
At this time last year, we were an idea stage company and now as 2019 comes to a close, we are LIVE and growing as fast as we can handle and couldn't be more excited for what 2020 has in store. We also couldn't be more thankful to each and every one of you, who've supported WAND through 2019 and we look forward to growing with you on our team in 2020.
What we're up to -
Now that the holiday rush is behind us and the roll into 2020 is upon us, we've taken some time to begin setting up our automated email infrastructure so we have some standards in place such as sending out a message when a new user joins, a service is booked, reminders to leave a review and other common workflows within our app. Our awesome team has been handling some of these priority communications internally but we're already struggling to keep up(No Complaints here!) so this was a clear next step from a development standpoint.
Users inbound!
Heading into January to scale up our user acquisition, we'll be putting your investments to use on some crucial tactics like digital advertising and SEO as well as we're hounding new complexes and groups in our launch zones to partner with, offering WAND as a value to their residents and members!
An example of the early stage promotions we're doing to excite and acquire additional 1st users!
THANK YOU...once again to our incredible investors who've made this possible, and to our users as well who have helped us validate and refine our platform so we can best serve our industry. There's still time to join the team, if you haven't already(or even if you have), check out our campaign and consider an investment today!
Best,
-The WAND Team
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Hello!
As you might know, Wand has exceeded its minimum funding goal. When a company reaches its minimum on StartEngine, it's about to begin withdrawing funds. If you invested in Wand be on the lookout for an email that describes more about the disbursement process.
This campaign will continue to accept investments until its indicated closing date.
Thanks for funding the future.
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The WAND App has been live for 1 week!
It's been a super busy week internally but we've been waiting a long time to be at this stage so we'll take busy any day, every day! Thank you to our new investors who've added thousands to our campaign since our last update, and always to those who've been on our team and contributed to our present success.
Many of you who downloaded on day one may have noticed we've published 3 updates in the last week! The additional eyes we've had on WAND and the feedback we've received has been stellar for us to work off of. We've made some key adjustments, small tweaks and bug fixes based on what we've heard from many of you and other who are now actively using WAND.
Today, we submitted an update adding the ability to add promo codes on checkout that is already live on Android and should be by end of week on iOS. This feature will help us run unique specials based on geography, events, etc to accelerate our customer acquisition.
The new year will ring in an even newer WAND -
We're constantly experimenting and filtering feedback to make sure we're best achieving our goal to connect consumers with cleaners in the most secure, efficient and transparent way possible. With that goal in mind, we're moving forward with a more inviting and user friendly Interface to better achieve that goal.
The goal is to publish before or soon after the new year while continuing to put investments from this campaign to work on customer acquisition and R&D. Thank you again to those who've invested to make that possible! If you haven't already, WAND is planning to scale hard into 2020 and every additional dollar helps us better achieve that goal and maximize our team's success!
If we don't get out another update before hand, we want to take the present opportunity to wish each and everyone of you a wonderful holiday season!
Best,
-The WAND Team
Hey there and happy Wednesday to our awesome crowd!
In the last 24 hours, we've had our hands full with day one traction but couldn't wait to deliver not only the news and appreciation to those who made it possible but also a thank you to the 54 of you(that's right, we can track it, isn't technology fun), that downloaded the app on launch as well as the 11 that have already contacted us one way or another with feedback!
But only 1 rating on the iOS store? Let's kick that up guys and gals!
Some day 1 tweaks that are on our radar for an update by end of week:
FIXED: Some iOS users on newer devices had a keyboard drop issue on sign-up - This update has already been expedited and published so if you haven't already, update and get on in there!
Why are we telling you our bugs?
Because they're there and we want to stress how important it is to collect your input so we can continue to improve WAND and provide better first impressions for those to come in the future! We've made it super easy to drop input right through the app, just navigate to your profile and hit submit feedback to launch THIS FORM.
If you haven't already, download WAND now, celebrate with us as we begin our scale strategy and start putting your investment dollars to real work! Thank you again and if you haven't already, the present is the point of power, consider joining the ride with us and accelerating our growth with an investment today!
Best,
-The WAND Team
Happy Monday to our amazing investors and Supporters! Giving a long awaited update for the start of the week. The WAND app is finally live in both app stores! We've been live in stealth mode in Google since last Monday but we saw a few of you who were in the beta pool download the app on release and to the special 2 of you who already submitted feedback through our form on the profile tab, you know who you are, we say a huge thank you! We've made a few fixes and will be publishing an update later today.
Over the weekend, we resubmitted our fixed build to iOS after 2 denials through the week. While time consuming, we are grateful for the thorough review pipeline for our iOS release because it helped us produce a better day 1 product and encouraged us to make some very manageable tweaks before making more 1st impressions in the app store.
Thank you again to our incredible investors, supporters, users and cleaners! We're already seeing stellar engagement that is keeping our internal team very busy heading into the holidays and we are super glad we got our app published in both stores so we can all use it to clean up our holiday events! It's a great time to join the team, our campaign is as live as our app and we wouldn't have made it to this point without the investment and support of each and every backer!
Thank you 3000,
-The WAND Team
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Second, a short while ago you should have received a notice from StartEngine that we are doing our 2nd dispersal! We are immensely excited and thankful for the resources gained through this campaign that we will be taking advantage of after this second withdrawal in order to have working capital to cover a number of launch expenses on our horizon including marketing, insurance, platform hosting, and background checking providers to name a few of our action items!
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