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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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
Hello Again! We'll begin as usual with a huge welcome to our new investors and a THANK YOU to you and all of our investors and supporters! Some exciting news as of last week, we were officially given our Notice of Allowance towards our trademark application for the Word Mark, 'WAND'. We've been in the application process for just shy of a year, proving we have valid claims, and the effort has been well worth it. Ownership of 'WAND' will allow us to identify, build, and importantly, protect our brand.
Don't believe we got 'WAND', neither did we at first, but check it out on the official registry HERE!
Additionally, if you're at all as excited as we are to wrap mobile development, we know you're on the edge of your seats! We've been done with our full User Interface design for a few weeks and as of last week, completed functionality and back-end integration of the customer side of our platform which we've been diligently QA testing thereafter.
Currently, we're wrapping back-end integration of our cleaner side of the platform prior to moving forward w/ QA on this end as well prior to moving forward with our full mobile beta! We will begin our mobile launch in St. Louis, where we now have over 40 cleaners backing our platform, ready and excited to provide their services through WAND, while we gear up for marketing and expansion into our next 6 territories in the coming months.
Since launching this campaign and much so in the last week, we've received an out-pour of support in the form of direct check-ins, intro offers to parties who may help us somewhere along the way in addition to general help+guidance launching in your respective areas! We've made it a point to be as transparent as possible how we are putting what may be YOUR investment to use and again, we want to say thank you to YOU for helping us to reach this point in any small or large way.
If you haven't yet, our campaign is LIVE and funds from this round are being allocated to our phase 2 expansion as well as platform improvements we have the opportunity to make along the way.
Best,
-The Wand Team
We hope our incredible investors and supporters are off to the start of another awesome week! We certainly are and want to as always, start by saying thank you to those who've joined the team! The funds raised through this campaign have been diligently allocated to maximizing our product and our market exposure and we can't express enough how fortunate we are to grow with you on our side! In lieu of your involvement, we're excited to show some teases of our mobile app running on a real device.
At this point in development, the last 10% is often 90% of the work, we're doing our best to break what we've got and fix issues we'd never know we have and once we complete this stage, we will enter our much anticipated mobile beta to give others the opportunity to use Wand as it was always meant to be, a mobile first experience. Many of our first users may come across other niche bugs, but thanks to our incredible team, we plan to be diligent in taking in those reports and iterating to improve and perfect Wand.
Speaking of our incredible, expanded team, we'd like to formally welcome and introduce Marvin, Alexandru and Colten!
Marvin will be contributing his expertise as Wand's Software Architect to strategize and help develop the Wand Platform for modularity, scalability and performance.
Alexandru has joined the Wand arsenal as our front-end mobile guru to help us iterate and improve our mobile experience.
Colten will be lending his time and talents as Business Development Intern where he will be responsible for maintaining our digital presence and working on go-to-market strategy in our next territories.
Learn more about our awesome new team members by reading their full bios in the TEAM section of our Campaign.
Thank you again to everyone else who's joined our team since our launch on StartEngine! You're equally as crucial to our success, and if you haven't yet, we'd love all the help we can get! We are actively raising to continue to develop an amazing product as well as make astounding first impressions through our marketing efforts.
Have an amazing week,
-The Whole Team at WAND
Happy August to our wonderful investors and supporters! Since our last update, we’ve made substantial progress on the mobile application and are actively pushing the platform out of our development environment and into Staging! What this means is that the core application is complete and our next steps before pushing it to production will be to try our very hardest to break it! This stage of QA testing and bug fixing will be succeeded by our true open beta for the mobile application in the mid-west as we now have the cleaners to support our demand and the mobile platform we’ve been working towards to capture our greater B2C Market!
In light of this, as you may have seen in a separate update from StartEngine, we have decided to extend our campaign once more in order to have the opportunity to close on additional capital brought in through the exposure that will parallel our app launch!
Additionally, we took the opportunity in the same update to inform and publicly announce our most recent team adjustments. For a small handful of personal matters including time commitment and a relocation, our former CEO and Director will be stepping down from his position within the company and Wand's COO and Director will be transitioning into the role of CEO. We're 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.
Thankfully, and more excitingly, the Wand team has grown! ...and duties that were normally cross pollinated by the 2 co-founders will now be filtered, handled and in some cases delegated by new CEO, formerly COO, with the help of the company’s CTO regarding technical matters.
So that they have their own spotlight, in a future update we'll introduce you to our 3 new rock-stars helping to build and scale Wand as we continue to move forward, but in the meantime, you can meet Marvin, Alexandru and Colten under the Team heading on our Campaign.
We want to say THANK YOU again to all our amazing investors who've joined Wand to help us grow, adapt and scale as a company! Your investments are not only growing a business with returns but a team that will last a lifetime. If you haven't yet, we'd love for you to join that team and thankfully, as of today, the clock is renewed to do so!
Stay tuned for other regular updates on our Facebook HERE.
The Best,
-The Wand Team
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Good day to our incredible investors and supporters! We've been hard at work to scale through the summer months and wanted to chime in to keep our awesome shareholders in the loop on what we've been up to. First and foremost, we've officially surpassed 100 shareholders! We're so excited and fortunate to have each and every one of you backing this company and send a huge thank you your way for the trust in our ability to execute.
Since our last update we've continued to find new strategic partners to grow with through the summer months and as recently as last week, even had the opportunity to double our team for 10 days. We were so fortunate to work with a team of the brightest students from around the country, to teach problem solving and current technology as it pertains to business. For the next 10 months, a select few will be continuing to work with us as interns to lend a hand with our go-to-market in our next territories as well as get some hands on development experience working on our platform.
We are also hard at work on the final push to bring our long awaited mobile app to market to capture the greater B2C customer base we've always striven for. We've seen an awesome response already to our web-application which was integral to help us discover and fine tune our user experience and quantify traction so we can make the best first impressions possible when we go mobile.
For helping us to achieve this goal, checkout a sneak peak of our awesome User Interface developed in partnership with RNO1, a west coast branding titan that's worked with companies from Airbnb to Microsoft HERE!
We'd love to hear what YOU think! We are a agile company and are constantly taking in user input to better improve our platform. Feel free to comment in the link, or if you've been so great as to be one of our first users in the mid-west, let us know what you thought HERE.
A huge THANK YOU again to those who've backed us to achieve these awesome milestones and to not only continue to grow our company, but YOUR investment. If you're not on the team yet, we'd love to have you! The clock is ticking and never again will the elevator be open on the bottom floor to head up with us!
Best,
-The Wand Team
Hello again to our awesome investors and supporters! It’s been a great start to summer for us at Wand, as always, in direct thanks to your investments which have played a key role in supporting our initial marketing and final development to we can continue to make the best first impression possible on new users!
Today, we hit another important milestone, we’re 1 year old! In lieu of this achievement, we wanted to take the opportunity to pat ourselves on the back and highlight some milestones we're proud to have hit in our first year in operation but we couldn't have done it without you!
Opportunity:
We have 39 cleaners on-boarded and on our platform servicing users in our launch territories with many more applied and ready to grow with Wand! We've been very diligent in getting the right people behind our platform to make an astounding first impression to every new consumer on the platform. It's important however we highlight our providers first because they are the front lines in getting people to love and trust in the magic of Wand!
Scale:
Throughout our soft launch, we've partnered with 17 apartment buildings across 3 different property management groups to offer our platform as a premium to their tenants in addition to establishing ourselves as the preferred platform for finding cleaning professionals for their own unit turnover cleanings! This and our outreach across other marketing channels has translated to over 300 unique pre-users!
Development:
Much in thanks to being a recipient of the SafeT Grant, we've been able to develop our platform in record time, with unrivaled security and the workflow capability of SalesForce in our 1st Version! We want to take this opportunity to thank our in house developers in addition to those who's help we've brought in to help with the project along the way who are still diligently working to QA test, and iterate based on first users' feedback.
YOU:
Since launching this campaign, we've received over $56,000 in investment from 94 investors to help us achieve the above!
We want to wrap by welcoming our new investors who’ve joined since our last update and saying a huge THANK YOU to you and to all investors who’ve supported us through our launch and growth! If you’re still looking in as a supporter, we encourage you to join the team! This is our first and only raise allowing the community to join us at the ground floor, and to those that have, we can’t wait to bring you with us to the top!
To another year of incredible growth,
-The Wand Team
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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.
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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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