Mark NatthanHow we built a free global cleaning marketplace and opened 958 live public cleaning contracts across 55 countries into one feed.
Most people never think about who cleans the offices, schools, hospitals and shops they walk through every day. We did, and we found an industry worth hundreds of billions that still runs on word of mouth, paper and middlemen taking a cut from the people doing the actual work.
So we built CQD New Gen, a free global marketplace for the cleaning industry. Cleaners find verified work near them. Businesses hire trusted cleaners fast. Nobody pays a subscription, a commission or a posting fee, so cleaners keep 100 percent of what they earn.
This is a short write up of the interesting technical parts, and of one thing we opened up for free that we think is genuinely useful.
The SSR plus programmatic pages combination is what lets a brand new marketplace get discovered organically, without paying for ads. Every city and every market becomes its own landing page with real local content.
Public cleaning contracts are published by governments and public bodies all over the world, but they are scattered across dozens of portals, in different formats, in different languages. A small cleaning business has no realistic way to see them all.
So we aggregate them. Right now the platform tracks 958 live cleaning contracts across 55 countries, plus 400 live public tenders across 21 countries, de-duplicated and ranked into one clean feed. Anyone can browse it free at the contracts digest.
We also built a renewal radar that infers when existing contracts are coming up for re-tender, from the end dates in official award notices, so a cleaning business can prepare a bid before a contract goes back out to the market.
If you run or work in a cleaning business anywhere in the world, take a look and tell us what is missing: www.cqdnewgen.ai. We are building in public and we read everything.