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Real numbers, real lessons, real breakdowns. Weekly notes from inside a $1M+ home service business. If it's useful, we publish it.

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How we took a cleaning business from $137K to $1M+ in 24 months.

The exact playbook. What we built, what we broke, and what we'd do differently. Includes a spreadsheet of the actual numbers month by month.

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