Where does the data come from?

Sources like BLS OEWS for wages, ISSA 447 for cleaning times, EPA for chemical guidance, and state agencies for rules. Each answer links to its source.

How current are the wage numbers?

They reflect BLS OEWS, which updates roughly once a year. A figure may lag a fast-moving local market, so treat it as a floor to verify.

Can I trust production time estimates for bidding?

Use them as a starting point. ISSA 447 gives a baseline; your real hours shift with floor mix, congestion, and detail level. Confirm on a walkthrough.

What if it does not have the answer?

It tells you rather than inventing one. No fabricated statistics or fake citations, which is the whole point of citing sources.

How is this different from Compliance Assistant?

Ask Opora is broad Q&A across wages, standards, and rules. Compliance Assistant focuses on licensing, OSHA, and labor law by state. Overlap exists; use whichever framing fits your question.

Can I use its answers directly in a proposal?

Use the numbers to inform a bid or scope, but verify the citation and adjust for your specific job before it goes to a client.

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Cleaning industry answers, cited like a memo

Type a question in plain English — get a written answer grounded in Field Guides, wage data, and operator corpus.

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How Ask works

Instead of digging through PDFs and government sites, ask the question and get a cited answer. It pulls from sources like BLS wage data, ISSA cleaning standards, EPA chemical guidance, and state rules. Every answer shows where it came from so you can check it.

Instruction

Type a specific question (market, wage, scope, license, or bid tactic).
Submit and read the cited answer — every statistic links to its source.
Read citations before you act. Open linked Field Guide or tool pages when the answer points there.
Save useful answers to your dashboard library. Use Browse starters on this desk for edge-case drafts — or open a dedicated tool when search points you there.

Worked example

You ask: 'What's the average janitor wage in Phoenix, and how long should it take to clean a 10,000 sqft office at night?'

It returns the BLS OEWS janitor wage for the Phoenix metro with a citation, and an ISSA 447-based production estimate of roughly 2.5 to 3 labor hours for a light nightly clean, noting the estimate shifts with floor mix and detail level.

What's under the hood

Wage answers draw on BLS OEWS data; production estimates use ISSA 447 cleaning times as the baseline.
It cites its sources inline so an answer is verifiable, not a confident guess.
It will not fabricate a statistic or a citation. If the data does not exist for your exact question, it says so.
Data has a vintage. BLS wages and standards update on a schedule, so a cited figure may lag the current market.

When this breaks

Quoting a national average wage into a local bid when the metro figure is what actually matters.
Asking a question with no location, so the answer defaults general and misses your market.
Treating a production-time estimate as a guarantee instead of a starting point you adjust for the real building.

Questions operators ask

Where does the data come from?: Sources like BLS OEWS for wages, ISSA 447 for cleaning times, EPA for chemical guidance, and state agencies for rules. Each answer links to its source.
How current are the wage numbers?: They reflect BLS OEWS, which updates roughly once a year. A figure may lag a fast-moving local market, so treat it as a floor to verify.
Can I trust production time estimates for bidding?: Use them as a starting point. ISSA 447 gives a baseline; your real hours shift with floor mix, congestion, and detail level. Confirm on a walkthrough.
What if it does not have the answer?: It tells you rather than inventing one. No fabricated statistics or fake citations, which is the whole point of citing sources.
How is this different from Compliance Assistant?: Ask Opora is broad Q&A across wages, standards, and rules. Compliance Assistant focuses on licensing, OSHA, and labor law by state. Overlap exists; use whichever framing fits your question.
Can I use its answers directly in a proposal?: Use the numbers to inform a bid or scope, but verify the citation and adjust for your specific job before it goes to a client.