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Premium laundry, collected and returned.

A service business with real vans, real deadlines and a fixed price. The operation that taught me the most about scheduling, routing and keeping a promise.

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What it is

Premium laundry, collected and returned.

You hand over your laundry, it comes back clean, folded and on the day you were told. That is the entire promise, and everything in the business exists to protect it.

Behind that promise is a routing problem, a capacity problem and a communications problem, all of which have to be solved before breakfast every day.

What running it taught me

A fixed price is a discipline. It means every inefficiency comes straight out of the margin, so you learn very quickly which parts of a day are actually earning.

It is also the business where I first put AI to work on scheduling messages, customer replies and route notes, and watched a two hour evening job become a fifteen minute one.

Matthew NtamaraMSc Data Science

Learn it

The course this one fed.

Everything I worked out running Do My Laundry is written down in the courses. Start with this one.