Roy Banwell

@CollinJHumphrey I think 30k/ mo and I’d never wish I had more money. Might grow more for the thrill of it tho

How many of you would be perfectly happy netting $250k-$350k a year consistently with steady growth each year for 20-30 years Small company. Good clients. Good work. Time for family. Freedom over your schedule No investors No board meetings No worrying about 25 employees feeding their families. No million dollar payroll. No constant fires. Or would you rather build the bigger machine? Which one and why? There is no wrong answer. Just tradeoffs

@Roy_Banwell LETS GO

$3000+ in revenue today on 10+ cleans. Hours and hours of headaches, all around cleaner hiring and quality. Major SOP upgrades happening this week, excited to fix this problem and move on to the next.

Closed a dashboard build with a company that has its own dev team. I asked why they didn't just build it. "It never hits the priority list. There's always 50 more important things." That gap is my whole business.

Audited my booking pipeline. 1 in 5 confirmed jobs never becomes a completed clean. About $25K a quarter I'd already counted, just gone. Most owners know their revenue. Almost none know this number.

@LoveladyLuke Me too

I created a 6-page SOP for how we handle Hoarder/Bio Hazard jobs/estimates awhile back. If anyone wants to see it or it might help just comment below and I'll share it with you🤝

Replaced 5 Zapier zaps with one webhook and about 280 lines of Python. Cut the bill 75%. The logic lives in version control now instead of buried in someone else's UI. Boring infra, real money.

@pontodotdev I’ve got a great accountant I can recommend

Finally trying to hire an actual CPA for cleaning biz Filled out three information forms, called one firm directly. No responses. Are these guys really so busy they don't have time to answer a lead form?

@pontodotdev I had a low cost VA working on something unrelated and after our call I’m going to move him to strictly hiring pipeline managaement. Monitor indeed, contact applicants, push them into online application, automated slack when one finishes the flow

I officially launched a new job ad on Indeed with a daily budget of $7/day Previous budget was $35/day, but I've heard you get higher quality applicants with lower budgets Will post results

@TheKingdomdad This is an AI not a human

@Roy_Banwell Philippines Va I’m guessing ?

Testing out an AI agent that I built. Not sold yet that it's the future, but pretty awesome seeing it close deals. Currently it triggers after our phone rings 10 seconds, so basically, the VA is about to miss the call and instead Sara the AI picks up.

@cyrusfba @bvujanov Interesting, you’re top of the map pack and top of the search pages for all important keywords?

@bvujanov @Roy_Banwell I don’t actively run SEO because we already rank at pretty much the top in my market

May was a very weird month for me in my cleaning business. Partly because it was the first month I had a good VA. 3 weeks of me being like "What is there for me to do?". I was handling everything after 4:30 PM, and on the weekends. That was it. Now I am about to hop into training with my 2nd VA, who will work 4:30-8:30 M-F, and 9-5 on Saturday & Sunday. If this hire goes well, once I'm done training her, I will actually have NOTHING to do.

Had an AI grading my VAs' sales calls. It scored them 4.5/10. They're actually 7+. It was counting calls where the customer never replied as failures. Default-low bias is real, and it quietly wrecks trust with your team.

@cyrusfba @bvujanov Start with marketing. How can you double your leads? Then, plenty will break downstream and you can dig in to create systems and processes so that you can double your leads again

@bvujanov Honestly been stuck with that. Had a few weekends of tedious work, but I’m just kinda sitting not knowing what to do. Do have some things I’m working on, but they don’t take a bunch of time so I just have been bored honestly

@sullevol @boringbillionz BK has a signature feature that the cleaners can ask the clients for before they clock out. Compliance is difficult but hypothetically it would solve this problem

@boringbillionz Fr it’s getting annoying asl. Thinking of also adding a signature at the bottom of the booking page

Waking up to see a dispute in your stripe balance has got to be the worst thing. smh.

My cost to acquire a cleaning customer was $120. Killed the dead markets and now it's $58. Same ads, half the price. The bad markets were starving the good ones.

@LoveladyLuke where do you generate the leads for these types of houses?

Booked em $4500💰

Cut ad spend 36% this month. Revenue up 50%. On track for a record $60K. We turned off 4 Texas markets that looked fine until I saw the margin. Growth was quietly making us poorer.

Claude Code wrote a Telegram bot, an n8n scraper, and a dashboard for me this month. I directed. It built. The boring code is just typing now.

@FrontierBDesign @FrontierBDesign I think you'll like this tella.tv/video/automate…

@FrontierBDesign ah yes - code sends you into hyperdrive because it builds its own connectors. anything with an API connects, you don't rely on Anthropic or an MCP, it will just build its own MCP for any app

The power of GHL automations. This lead called in on Jan 13, 2024. We captured his number and put him into our automations. Texted him monthly for years. Today, June 2026, he reached back out needing a move out clean for a 2750 sqft house.