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Your AI general manager
There is a point in every growing cleaning business where the owner becomes the ceiling. The work is there. The demand is there. But every job still flows through one person, and that person is out of hours. The instinct is to hire a manager. Sometimes that is right. Often it is early.
The signs you have hit the ceiling
You turn down work because you cannot coordinate more of it. You have not taken a real day off in months. The business stops the moment you stop. If two or three of those are true, you do need to take work off your own plate. The question is how.
What a manager actually costs
A capable operations manager in the US runs $3,000 to $4,000 a month, before payroll taxes and the time it takes to hire and train one. For a business doing $30,000 to $60,000 a month, that is a real bet, made before you know it will pay off. Many owners make the hire, feel the cost immediately, and feel the relief much later.
The in-between option
Most of what a manager does in week one is not judgement. It is coordination: building the schedule, texting the team, sending invoices, chasing payments, keeping clients informed. That layer can be handled without a salary. Software that actually does the operating, not just stores it, gives you most of the relief at a fraction of the cost, and it does not quit.
What to delegate first
Start with the work that is high volume and low judgement: reminders, confirmations, invoicing, follow ups, daily dispatch. That is where your hours leak. Keep the judgement work, pricing, hiring, difficult clients, for yourself. When the coordination is off your plate and you are still capacity constrained, that is when a human manager is a clear yes.
Where Eva fits
Eva is built to be that in-between step: an AI general manager that runs the coordination layer of a cleaning business for less than a tank of gas a week. If the day comes that you hire a human manager too, Eva hands them a business that already runs. Either way, you stop being the bottleneck.