It started with a question nobody in this industry likes answering.
"So... how much is it?"
Ask a cleaning company that question and watch what happens. A form appears. A callback gets scheduled. Someone wants to walk your home before they'll say a number. By the time a price finally shows up, it's been shaped by how your house looked, how your street looked, and how you sounded on the phone.
We've spent years inside the cleaning industry, and here's the uncomfortable truth: the mystery is the business model. Hidden pricing lets companies charge each customer whatever that customer will tolerate.
Blank Canvas Cleaning is what happens when you refuse to play. The full price table went on the website. The checklist behind every service went next to it, including what's not covered, which no one publishes. The guarantee got a real deadline instead of vague reassurance. And the work went to vetted, background-checked independent cleaning professionals who are exceptional at it, paid fairly for it, and matched to homes they'll return to again and again.
The name is the whole philosophy. A great cleaning gives you your home back the way a blank canvas gives a painter a fresh start: nothing hidden underneath, nothing to work around. That's what we sell. That's the only thing we sell.
We're a cleaning referral agency. Here's what that means for you.
Blank Canvas Cleaning is a cleaning referral agency. The people who clean your home or business are vetted, background-checked independent cleaning professionals who work with us, not employees of a big cleaning company. We do the parts they shouldn't have to: marketing, booking, published pricing, payment, scheduling, customer support and quality follow-through. They do the part they're exceptional at.
Why this model? Because it's better for everyone in the transaction. Pros keep more of the money than they would working for a traditional company, which is how we attract and keep the best ones. You get a consistent professional who learns your space instead of a rotating crew. And the company stays lean, which is exactly why our rates can be published and competitive instead of hidden and padded.
What doesn't change is accountability. We vet every professional, set the checklist, handle every issue ourselves, and back every cleaning with the 24-hour guarantee. You never have to negotiate with a cleaner about a problem; you talk to us.
Who's behind Blank Canvas
Bryan Griffin
Founder · Austin, Texas
I've spent the better part of a decade inside the residential cleaning industry, building and running cleaning operations across dozens of markets before starting this one. That's long enough to learn exactly where the industry hides its prices and why. Blank Canvas Cleaning is my answer to that: one company in my own city where the price table is public, the checklist is written down, and the people doing the work are paid fairly for it.
I run the business from our office on North Lamar in north-central Austin. Before cleaning, I was a software engineer, which is why this site has no phone tag, no "call for a quote," and no mystery. If something on it can be made clearer, it's on me to make it so.
Questions, feedback, or a price that surprised you? Tell us through the contact form and it reaches me.
Bryan on LinkedIn →Six commitments, in writing
- Every price published before anyone asks for your name
- Every service scoped by a written checklist, exclusions included
- Background-checked, experienced cleaning professionals only
- The same cleaner on recurring visits whenever possible
- A human reply when you have a question or a problem
- Anything not right, made right within 24 hours, free
See if we live up to it.
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