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Checked October 26, 2026. Prices were read on each vendor's own pricing page. Some vendors (Workiz and Podium) do not publish a price; we say so. Prices change: re-check before you buy. Dooza Crew is our product and our top pick for the office side of a small cleaning company; we say why, and where the others fit better.
Our top pick for the office work around a small cleaning company is Dooza Crew: AI employees that draft replies to quote requests, chase unpaid invoices and answer the phone, $49 a month for the whole organization, and they ask before sending anything. If you want AI inside your scheduling software, look at Housecall Pro or Workiz. For a call-answering service, Smith.ai. For texts and reviews, Podium. For a website chat, Tidio. For your own writing, Claude has a free plan.
This guide is for owners with a few crews, residential or commercial. The cleaning itself is done by your people. AI helps with the part that eats your evenings: the missed call, the quote email, the invoice nobody paid, the new-hire training you explain again every time.
Fewer than the headlines suggest. The U.S. Census Bureau's survey found that "overall AI usage hovered between 17% and 20%" from December 2025 to May 2026. For the smallest firms: "Less than 20% of firms with four or fewer employees reported using AI."
That is every kind of business, not only cleaning, so read it as a rough guide. It does say one useful thing: most small companies are still early, so you do not need to feel behind. Pick one job, try it for a month, keep what works.
| Tool | What the AI does | Price (vendor page, Oct 26) | Free option |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dooza Crew (ours, top pick) | AI employees for quote replies, invoice chasing, forms and phone calls | $49/mo per organization, unlimited users and agents, AI usage included | 7 days free (card required) |
| Housecall Pro | Field-service software with an AI CSR that answers calls and books jobs | Basic $59/mo, billed annually | 14 days, no credit card |
| Workiz | Field-service software with Genius Answering add-on | Not published (request pricing) | 7-day free trial |
| Smith.ai | Call answering, AI and human receptionists | Starter $300/month for 30 calls | 30-day money-back guarantee |
| Podium | AI Employee for texts, scheduling and reviews | Not published (talk to sales) | None stated |
| Tidio | Website chat with the Lyro AI agent | Starter $24.17/mo | 7-day free trial |
| Zapier | Connects your apps, with AI steps | Professional from $19.99/month | Free plan, 100 tasks/month |
| Claude | Drafts messages, checklists and job posts | Pro $17/month billed annually, or $20 monthly | Free plan |
| Loom | Training videos with AI summaries | Business + AI $24 per user/month | Starter $0; 14-day trial of Business + AI |
| Notion | Checklists and procedures with AI | Plus $10, Business $20 per member/month | Free $0 plan |
Scheduling software tells your crews where to be. It does not write back to the person who emailed for a quote at 9 pm, remind the commercial client about an unpaid invoice, or pick up when you are in someone's kitchen. Crew gives your company AI employees, each with its own computer and browser and its own job. They work around the clock, work with your team in one chat, and pass work to each other. Before one sends an email or clicks Send, Submit or Pay, it asks you to Approve, Edit or Reject.
Example jobs you could give it: you could give one agent the job of drafting a reply to every new quote request using the details you set for what you clean and where; another the job of chasing unpaid invoices with a polite reminder for you to approve; another the job of answering the phone and taking a message when your crews are out; another the job of filling a fillable PDF, Word or Excel form you upload, such as a commercial client's vendor form.
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Housecall Pro lists "Home Cleaning" among its industries. Its navigation features an "AI CSR" that "Answers calls and books jobs 24/7 so you never miss an opportunity." The Basic plan lists online booking, invoices and payments, scheduling and dispatching, and quotes and proposals.
Workiz sells Genius Answering as an add-on: "Answer every call, email, and SMS instantly, 24/7 and never miss an opportunity again." It lists live transfers to your human team and answers for email, SMS and web forms.
Smith.ai describes "Professional call answering by real people" available 24/7, and the page offers a choice of AI-first, Hybrid or Human-first handling.
Podium says its AI Employee "sells, schedules, and communicates with customers day and night". It is built around text messaging and online reviews, which matter to local cleaning companies.
Tidio is a website chat tool whose Starter plan includes "50 Lyro AI Agent conversations (one-off)". It can answer visitors who ask what you clean and where, even when you are busy.
Zapier moves information between apps, for example from a web form into a spreadsheet, and its pages describe it this way: "Start automating with AI." Professional lists AI fields.
Claude is a general AI assistant. For a cleaning company it drafts a polite reply to a complaint, a checklist for a move-out clean, a job post, or a follow-up to a commercial prospect. You paste in the details and edit what comes back.
Loom records your screen and camera. Show a new cleaner how you want a kitchen done once, then share the link. The Business + AI plan adds "automatic video summaries and chapters".
Notion keeps your cleaning checklists, client notes and onboarding steps in one workspace. The Business plan lists "AI Meeting Notes", and the Free and Plus plans include "Trial AI capabilities like generating docs, or autofilling databases".
Our top pick for the office work around a small cleaning company is Dooza Crew (our product): AI employees that handle jobs such as drafting replies to quote requests, chasing unpaid invoices for you to approve, and answering the phone, for $49 a month for the whole organization after a 7-day free trial. It asks you to Approve, Edit or Reject before it sends anything. For field-service software with AI inside, look at Housecall Pro or Workiz. For a call-answering service, Smith.ai.
Yes, several tools do. Housecall Pro lists an AI CSR that "Answers calls and books jobs 24/7", Workiz sells Genius Answering as an add-on with a 7-day free trial of the platform, Smith.ai has plans from $300 a month for 30 calls, and Dooza Crew agents take phone calls too, included in the $49 a month plan. Only some of these publish a price, so compare the real monthly cost, not the headline.
Probably yes. Scheduling, dispatch and recurring-clean calendars live in field-service software. Dooza Crew is not integrated with any cleaning software and works only in web tools you log in to with a browser, so use it for the work around your scheduling tool, not as a replacement for it. Housecall Pro and Workiz bundle AI into their own software.
It can help you draft the quote email, but pricing stays with you. You know your crew time, travel and what a deep clean really takes. Dooza Crew does not decide prices and asks you to Approve, Edit or Reject before it sends anything.
Fewer than you might think. The U.S. Census Bureau said overall AI usage "hovered between 17% and 20%" from December 2025 to May 2026, and "Less than 20% of firms with four or fewer employees reported using AI." That is all businesses, not only cleaning.
Claude has a free plan, Zapier has a free plan with 100 tasks a month, Loom has a free Starter plan with 25 recordings, and Notion has a free plan with trial AI. Free trials: Housecall Pro 14 days with no credit card, Workiz 7 days, Tidio 7 days, Loom 14 days, and Dooza Crew 7 days (card required).
A lead AI agent plus helper agents that browse the web, write files and ask you before they send or pay. 7-day free trial (card required), then $49/month with AI usage included and a hard spending cap.
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Try Dooza Crew, AI agents that do your busywork: 7-day free trial (card required), then $49/month with AI usage included and a hard spending cap. Want a custom agent built for you instead? A Dooza engineer scopes it on a free 30-minute call and it starts as a refundable pilot. See pricing.
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Or start now: Dooza Crew, AI employees you chat with from web or phone, watching every step live in chat: free for 7 days, then $49 a month for your whole organization (unlimited users and agents, no per-seat fee) with AI usage included and a hard spending cap. Want it done for you instead? Dooza Managed, $200/month.