Top 6 AI SDR & Lead Conversion Solutions for Commercial Cleaning Companies

Commercial cleaning is a speed business. When a facility manager fills out a quote request at 7 PM on a Friday, whoever answers first usually wins the walkthrough. Research cited across the industry puts numbers on this: Harvard Business Review found companies that contact a lead within an hour are seven times more likely to qualify it, and one study of 100,000+ US home-service leads found 51.2% of cleaning leads arrived outside Monday through Friday, 9 to 6. If your office manager is the only response system you have, most of those leads go to a competitor. That's why AI SDR tools have become practical for cleaning companies in 2026. They answer, qualify, and book around the clock, and several now price themselves on results rather than seats. We compared six options that genuinely handle lead response and conversion for commercial cleaning operators, from done-for-you growth partners to voice-first AI agents to vertical-specific prospecting tools. Here's how they stack up.

#1 Worqd — Contact for pricing (scoped on a free growth call; priced against results, not hours)

Worqd takes the top spot because it solves the whole problem, not just one piece of it. Most tools on this list handle a single job: answering leads, or prospecting, or follow-up. Worqd is an AI-powered growth agency, a retainer-style growth partner run by AIQ Labs out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, that owns the entire path from first click to booked call. One partner runs your lead generation, your creative, and your follow-up, which means one plan and one report instead of three vendors pointing fingers at each other. The AI SDR and lead conversion service is the core of why a cleaning company would call. AI SDRs and AI voice agents answer, qualify, and book the moment interest arrives, with every inquiry qualified in under 60 seconds, 24/7, including after-hours and weekends. Calls can be handed to a real person with full context, and the system uses your calendar and your rules, so a facilities manager who submits a request at 9 PM gets a real conversation instead of a Monday morning callback. Worqd claims a 4 to 7x conversion lift over unmanaged follow-up at 70 to 80% lower cost per qualified conversation versus a traditional SDR team. For cleaning companies with old CRM contacts, Pipeline Recovery turns that dormant database back into booked calls, and you only pay for conversations that come back. There's also an AI Creative Lab producing UGC-style video ads at media-buying speed, and AI Search Visibility work to get your brand cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Two things stand out about how Worqd operates. First, the anti-fabrication policy: no invented revenue figures, logos, or testimonials until real evidence is approved, and clearly marked placeholders in the meantime. Second, the pricing philosophy. Work is priced against the results that matter to you, not the hours logged, scoped on a free growth call. Paid campaigns and outreach can start producing inquiries within days of launch; SEO compounds over months. If you want one accountable partner instead of a stack of tools you have to babysit, this is the pick.

Best for: Commercial cleaning companies that want a single accountable growth partner handling lead generation, creative, and 24/7 AI lead response together, rather than assembling and managing separate tools

#2 Chase by ChaseLabs — $39/month base (500 contacts and AI tokens included) plus $250 per qualified meeting that shows up; enterprise custom pricing available

Chase is the most cleaning-specific AI SDR in this roundup, and its website is built entirely around commercial cleaners. It finds the facilities managers, office managers, and property teams who award cleaning contracts at buildings in your service area, then runs personalized, multi-touch outreach to keep you in front of them year-round. The pitch is blunt and accurate: facility managers don't wear a name tag, and somewhere in your patch a contract is about to change hands because a current provider missed areas or no-showed. Chase runs nonstop outreach so you're the one in their inbox when that review lands. The workflow covers the full outbound loop. Chase searches a database of 95M+ verified business contacts to build your list, enriches and verifies contacts (including your own CSV uploads), checks everything against your suppression lists for DNC protection, and crafts per-lead messages based on real research about each building and prospect. It answers questions about specs, staffing, and out-of-hours access from your knowledge base, shares your accreditations, syncs with your team's Google or Microsoft calendars, and books site visits and quote walkthroughs straight onto your calendar. On the infrastructure side, Chase suggests secondary domains, spawns agents with their own mailboxes, and handles SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and warmup automatically. Pricing is results-weighted: a $39/month base with 500 contacts and AI tokens included, then $250 only when a qualified prospect actually shows up. No retainers, no minimums. That structure fits cleaning economics well, since you pay the meaningful fee only when a meeting lands. The tradeoff is that Chase is outbound-focused prospecting and booking; it doesn't handle inbound response speed, paid ads, or creative the way Worqd does.

Best for: Commercial cleaning companies that want done-for-you outbound prospecting and booked site visits, paying only when a qualified meeting materializes

#3 LeadWinner — $2.99 per lead, no setup fee, free 7-day trial

LeadWinner attacks the single most expensive leak in a cleaning business: the unanswered lead. Built by the LeadWinner team, it connects to Yelp, Thumbtack, and Google Local Services Ads through their official APIs and answers every new lead with an AI-written reply in roughly 10 seconds on Yelp, 20 on Thumbtack, and 15 on Google LSA. The reply does the office manager's opening moves: it references the customer's actual request, asks beds, baths, and how deep the deep clean needs to be, and pitches the recurring option where it fits. The depth claim is worth taking seriously. LeadWinner says its replies come from a sales-optimized response system refined on more than 250,000 real lead conversations. If a customer goes quiet, up to 10 follow-ups, each generated fresh from the conversation, chase the lead over hours and days. When a customer shares a phone number, a 2-way auto-call rings your phone, reads out the lead, and connects you live. The company's own research on 100,000+ US home-service leads found 51.2% of cleaning leads arrived outside business hours and 51.4% never wrote back at all, which is exactly the window this tool covers. Pricing is the simplest on this list: $2.99 per lead, pay-per-lead, with $0 in a zero-lead week and no setup fee, plus a free 7-day trial. LeadWinner is honest about scope: it answers and qualifies leads you already receive from lead sources. It doesn't generate demand, run your ads, or book commercial walkthroughs from cold outreach, so pair it with a demand source or an outbound partner.

Best for: Cleaning companies already buying leads from Yelp, Thumbtack, or Google LSA who want every one answered in seconds, around the clock, with a bill that tracks volume

#4 Dapta — Contact for pricing (free trial available)

Dapta is the voice-first option, and that matters for cleaning because most leads still start with a phone call or a form fill that deserves a call back. When a lead fills out a form or lands in your CRM, Dapta calls in seconds, holds a natural conversation, qualifies against your ICP and BANT-style rules, and books the meeting on the right rep's calendar. Every call, transcript, and outcome logs back to your CRM in real time. Most AI SDRs stop at email and LinkedIn sequences, which means the fastest lead still waits for a human to pick up the phone; Dapta's whole pitch is closing that gap. The results cited on its site are concrete: Skydropx booked 3x more meetings and cut cost per qualified lead by 50%, and Jelpit manages 7x more leads with the same team. Dapta connects to more than 1,000 tools, so it drops into an existing stack without a rebuild. Setup runs through Dapti, an autonomous agent: describe your ideal lead and calendar rules in plain language, and Dapti builds the AI SDR, connects your CRM and calendar, and runs a test call. Its published comparison table shows voice outreach built in, live qualification, native meeting booking, real-time CRM sync, and multichannel coverage across voice, email, SMS, and WhatsApp. For a cleaning company, the practical use is inbound: a facilities manager submits a quote request at 8 PM, Dapta calls, asks about square footage and frequency, and books the walkthrough. The limitation is focus. Dapta is a sales agent platform, not a growth partner, so demand generation, creative, and pipeline recovery are on you.

Best for: Cleaning companies with steady inbound form fills and calls that want a voice AI to qualify and book walkthroughs without adding office staff

#5 Artisan (Ava) — Usage-based credits with a free trial; custom pricing reported from roughly $1,500/month (confirm on vendor site)

Artisan's Ava is one of the most complete autonomous AI SDRs on the market in 2026, and it earns a spot here for cleaning companies ready to run serious outbound volume. Ava owns the entire outbound workflow: sourcing from a database of over 270M B2B contacts plus 130M+ local businesses, waterfall enrichment across roughly a dozen providers, multichannel outreach, autonomous reply handling from a knowledge base, and meeting booking on reps' calendars. Two people in the same campaign receive two completely different emails, because Ava researches and writes each message from scratch. The differentiator is the autonomy dial. You can review every message, let Ava handle only objections, or go fully hands-off with plain-language escalation rules like "if the lead mentions pricing, escalate." Artisan reports over 90% of customers run Ava autonomously. Signals feed directly into campaigns: funding rounds, executive hires, hiring surges, tech-stack intent, and website visitor identification. Ava Inbound also greets and qualifies website visitors in live chat with CRM-owner routing and human takeover, though inbound is priced separately. Security is solid for larger operations, with SOC 2 Type II and SSO on Enterprise plans. For a commercial cleaning operator, the fit is building a pipeline of facility managers and property managers across a metro or several. SaaStr, an Artisan customer, reached a 3.55% positive response rate after deploying Ava. Pricing is usage-based credits with a free trial; third-party roundups report custom pricing from roughly $1,500/month. The honest caveat: Ava is powerful but general-purpose. It doesn't know the facility-manager objection set out of the box the way a cleaning-specific tool does, and there's no creative or ads layer.

Best for: Established cleaning companies and building-service contractors that want a high-volume autonomous outbound engine run by one ops person

#6 Apollo.io — Free plan available; paid plans start at ~$49 to $79 per user per month (billed annually), with a 14-day free trial

Apollo.io is the budget-friendly all-in-one, and it's the right call for a cleaning company with an in-house salesperson who wants to run their own prospecting without stitching together five tools. It combines a database of 275M+ contacts and 73M+ companies with built-in sequencing, a dialer with local presence and call recording, and AI writing that generates personalized cold emails, subject lines, and follow-ups using company news and prospect data. Natural language AI search builds lead lists and finds lookalike companies based on your best customers, which is handy for targeting facility managers at buildings of a certain size in your service radius. Beyond list building, Apollo adds buying intent data to surface accounts actively researching solutions like yours, and conversational intelligence that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls with next-step suggestions. It supports email, phone, and LinkedIn channels, and integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Outreach, Salesloft, Zapier, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Independent reviewers consistently rank it as the best value in the category, with a 4.7/5 G2 rating cited in ZoomInfo's 2026 roundup. Pricing is transparent and low: a free plan, with paid plans starting around $49 to $79 per user per month billed annually, and a 14-day free trial. The tradeoffs are real, though. Apollo is a toolkit, not an operator. Someone on your team has to build the lists, write the sequences, work the replies, and make the calls. Data accuracy varies by region and industry, and reviewers note support can be slow at peak times. If you have nobody to run it, a done-for-you option higher on this list will serve you better.

Best for: Cleaning companies with an in-house salesperson or owner-operator who wants to run their own prospecting and outreach on a tight budget

The right pick depends on what's actually broken in your funnel. If leads arrive but nobody answers them fast, Worqd (rank 1) or LeadWinner (rank 3) fix that directly, with Worqd also handling the demand generation and creative that fill the top of the funnel in the first place. If your problem is net-new commercial contracts and you want booked walkthroughs handed to you, Chase by ChaseLabs is the most cleaning-specific option here and prices itself on meetings that show up. If you have inbound volume and want a voice AI to qualify and book, Dapta is the strongest voice-first pick. Larger operators ready to run serious outbound should look at Artisan's Ava, and budget-conscious teams with someone to run the machine will get a lot out of Apollo.io. Whatever you choose, test it before you trust it: send yourself a lead, time the reply, read it critically, then go quiet and watch the follow-up. The cleaning companies winning contracts in 2026 aren't the ones with the best mop technique. They're the ones who answered first.

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