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.
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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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Great day to our stellar investors and supporters, we hope you're 6 days into a awesome November as we are much in thanks to you! Welcome to the team and thank you to our new shareholders since our last update, and as always, thank you to those who've been with our project for some time, it's a team effort and it's because we have you on that team that we've reached this stage of success!
We've been continuing to operate under the guise of a 'closed beta' here in our first territories to help us continue to build our cleaning provider base in tandem with demand while scaling for quality over speed with the latter still at the forefront of our strategy. We're also fine tuning while we have the present opportunity to learn what's best practice for growth so we can avoid any costly corrections later when it comes to the architecture of our platform.
All that said, the reason we're pacing ourselves now is so we can sprint forward with ease in the coming months! We've been prospecting phase II candidates by monitoring our ad performance in dense geographic areas on our short list. For some must-go territories, we've even already had boots on the ground to get the lay of the land and determine our market penetration strategy in thanks to our partnership with The Arise Veteran's Foundation and Southwest to help out with travel needs.
Many of you have already asked when we're coming your way and we've been listening! If you haven't yet, we've made a form to collect more interest data HERE we encourage if you chime in if you think your area needs WAND next!
Thank you again to our users, investors and supporters! We are building this platform for you so we want to hear from you, and if you're inclined, we also want you on our team. There is still time to join WAND on the ground floor, consider an investment today and have a wonderful week!
Best,
-The WAND Team
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Happy mid October to our awesome investors and supporters! We've been operating in our mid-west markets for a few weeks now so wanted to give a formal update to all of our shareholders who've helped us achieve the level of success that we're now seeing. Before we dive into the numbers, we want to shout a THANK YOU and Welcome to the new investors who've backed WAND since our last update and the ever present THANK YOU to those who've been behind us for some time!
Cleaners-
We now have over 50 cleaners on-boarded and available for services in the STL area! We have over 80 applicants but are working to balance supply with demand in our launch territories while still taking the time to individually vet every new prospective provider who aims to grow their business on WAND.
Users-
We are still following our soft launch go-to-market strategy of partnering with apartment complexes to offer WAND as a premium to tenants and are now regularly servicing turnovers for ~900 units across our launch territories while offering residential services through our mobile platform to a small pool of 1st users on an invite basis. We are continuing to prepare our application for a scaled launch effort by taking in bug reports through this usage which will help us make an astounding 1st impression when we do a heavier push to market.
Thank you again to not only our investors, but our users and finally followers for helping us to refine our product and make each new customer acquisition a little easier. Our team is working daily to add new features to improve the WAND user experience & when the platform is ready for the masses, funds from this raise are being allocated to aid in our marketing efforts and continual refinement + improvement of the WAND platform. If you haven't already, there's no time like the present to join the team and grow with us today!
Best,
-The WAND Team
Hey there again to our super star investors and supporters! Between each update, our numbers continue to climb and our team continues to grow, if this isn't your first update, you know what's coming: A THANK YOU to those who've hopped on board and decided to scale with us by investing in this campaign and the ever present THANK YOU to all of our supporters who've been invested in and following our progress since launch!
We've continued to receive super insightful feedback through our mobile user testing launch and are now starting to take the best of that input back to base-camp to not only fix bugs you've helped point out, but also to improve our over all 'CX' so we can make even better 1st impressions when we launch to a broader market. What's CX? Customer Experience is the product of an interaction between an organization and a customer over the duration of their relationship. Through WAND, our goal is to develop a lasting relationship with our users, we view both the cleaning professional and the consumer as our 'Customers' and our driving motivator is to deliver something that leaves a lasting impression for everyone who interacts with WAND, emphasis on the term experience.
To help us execute on this vision, we've been working w/ an awesome company we've mentioned before - RNO1. Recently, they published a case study of their work w/ WAND which you can view HERE.
Why is all this important? Experience is what draws users back to a platform like ours and for us to grow, it's important that we focus on the elements of WAND that make customers stick with us, which is why we are so grateful for our early testers, many of whom have come from this campaign that have helped point out those elements so we can cultivate and develop them further, but more importantly, what isn't working so we can either fix or scrap it and move forward.
If you haven't already, you can take part in this testing period by chiming in HERE, and if you've had eyes on WAND, let us know what you thought so we can continue to improve HERE! Thank you again to our awesome investors, users and supporters! Funds from this raise are being used to continue to develop what's no longer our MVP(Minimum Viable Product) but our MVP(Most Valuable Product) in addition to a cutting edge strategy to market our expansion. Checkout our campaign and join the team today!
Best,
-The Wand Team
Happy first of October to our incredible Investors and Supporters! We’ve seen a significant uptick in investments since our last update and want to as always, start by welcoming our new shareholders who've backed our platform since our last update and saying thank you to all of our awesome supporters! With each passing week, we're continuing to put your investments to good use and can't express excitement and gratitude enough!
We know we've been baiting this one for a beat, but as of yesterday, we've officially been accepted into the iOS store and begun our testing launch on Apple to pair with our Android testing release!
It's been a long time coming but we are so fortunate and excited to be able to share what we've been working on with those who've helped bring WAND to life! If you'd like to get your hands on WAND, chime in HERE so we can show you what we've got in store! Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us, we are still a few weeks out from a full scale launch and feedback we receive during this trial period is being rapidly iterated through by our awesome developers to make our true launch version the best that it can be!
If you have had eyes on the App, please, let us know what you thought HERE!
Accounts and data stored during this period will all be wiped for compliance purposes prior to our full launch. Please enjoy the fake cleaner profiles in this staging version of the platform!
After this stage, we will move into a soft mobile launch with our production ready platform where we'll have real cleaners available for view and booking! We'd like to gather and improve based on these first thoughts for 2-4 weeks while we prepare for that stage and from then on out, releasing new versions of WAND will be as hassle free as finding a cleaner!
Thank you once more to our investors, users and supporters, and if you're yet to join the team, we'd love to have you! Check out our campaign to learn more and be a part of our journey today!
Best,
-The WAND Team
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Hey there again to our awesome investors and supporters! We'll start off by welcoming and saying THANK YOU to those who've joined the team since our last update and again, recognize and give thanks to those who've been in support of the project for some time! We are *Uber* thankful because, since our last update, for some, that support has been in the form of providing valuable feedback regarding our Mobile Platform!
We sent some copies of the app to a very small testing pool of Android users given we are still waiting on iOS approvals to launch a beta for Apple users. We anticipate passing this threshold optimistically by early next week. It's a tight funnel but it's encouraging us to make a better first impression and for that, we're thankful! So if you haven't got eyes on it yet, hold on tight, we're nearly there, and if you haven't already, chime in HERE to let us know you're up for some testing! Google Play users can register HERE to be notified when we release the full version 1.0!
Last week, we also had the pleasure of Presenting WAND to an eager crowd at the HIPAA Complete South Cyber-security Conference where our CTO told the audience about the awesome technology we've integrated into WAND to make it one of the most secure consumer applications in production!
Awesome things are happening at WAND and we've been busy keeping up with new users, new opportunities and improvements to make our platform the best it can be! We're again thankful to those who've invested in the project throughout our campaign to support this incredible growth and traction. If you haven't already, there will never again be a similar opportunity to join the team on the ground floor so 'Viva la Vida' and join us on the ride up!
Always the Best,
-The WAND Team
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This campaign will continue to accept investments until its indicated closing date.
Thanks for funding the future.
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We hope our investors and supporters are off to a great start to their September! We want to thank YOU for our great start due to your continued support and usage in launch territories, in addition to those new to the team who’ve invested since our last update. We’re incredibly fortunate and excited to have you and the Wand team is stronger by the person!
Speaking of numbers to the team, we’ve welcomed a handful of new cleaning providers to the platform as we continue to grow in our launch zones! We are in the initial stages of searching for providers in our phase II territories and look forward to opening the opportunity that Wand offers to the cleaning industry at scale.
Regarding our mobile app, we are continually iterating through bugs and tweaks for compliance in the app-stores. While we wait for some housekeeping items(pun intended), we've decided to bundle our app for launch through each store’s Alpha/Beta Program. More information to follow, but if you’d like to be included and toy with what we’ve got, please chime in HERE.
We are limited to 100 Users on Android and no limit on Apple devices, however we’re waiting on a D-U-N-S Number and apple users will need to interface through a beta testing app called TestFlight.
If you are opted into our beta, PLEASE, be vocal with us, tell us what you love but more importantly, tell us what you hate - or if you don’t hate anything, that’s great, but tell us what grinds your gears, what could be a smidge better or at the very least, what you had for breakfast.
If you’ve been testing with us already or are one of our first users, firstly, thank you, and let us know what you thought HERE!
We want to end again by saying THANK YOU, to our investors, to our users, and to anyone who's followed us just to know what we're up to. We would not be where we are without your investment and support, and if you haven’t already, there’s still time to join our team to grow with us and over 100 others on this mission to positively disrupt the cleaning space!
Best,
-The Wand Team
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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