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A Nordic home cleaning startup built technology that lets customers control everything from their phone — and grew faster than ever before.

A Nordic home cleaning startup built technology that lets customers control everything from their phone — and grew faster than ever before.

Freska's premise is simple: take a tedious household chore off people's plates, employ great people to do it, and pay them properly. What makes that simple idea complicated is the logistics — coordinating 600+ cleaners across Finland, Norway, and Sweden, managing schedules, travel time, workloads, and customer preferences at scale. We embedded with Freska's product team to help them build the digital layer that makes all of it work. That meant a customer-facing app for booking and managing services, an internal extranet for support staff coordinating thousands of accounts, and a web app for cleaners themselves to receive schedules, customer preferences, and instructions. Three products, one coherent experience. The tools worked. In 2019, Freska completed almost as many cleanings as in the entire rest of the company's history combined. The new customer app reached a 75% monthly adoption rate within a month of promotion. After 300,000 cleanings and one million cleaning hours, the service holds a 4.7/5 customer rating.

Year

2019

Industry

Home Services

Scope of work

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UX & Product Design

Timeline

2019

A Nordic home cleaning startup built technology that lets customers control everything from their phone — and grew faster than ever before.

Freska's premise is simple: take a tedious household chore off people's plates, employ great people to do it, and pay them properly. What makes that simple idea complicated is the logistics — coordinating 600+ cleaners across Finland, Norway, and Sweden, managing schedules, travel time, workloads, and customer preferences at scale. We embedded with Freska's product team to help them build the digital layer that makes all of it work. That meant a customer-facing app for booking and managing services, an internal extranet for support staff coordinating thousands of accounts, and a web app for cleaners themselves to receive schedules, customer preferences, and instructions. Three products, one coherent experience. The tools worked. In 2019, Freska completed almost as many cleanings as in the entire rest of the company's history combined. The new customer app reached a 75% monthly adoption rate within a month of promotion. After 300,000 cleanings and one million cleaning hours, the service holds a 4.7/5 customer rating.

Year

2019

Industry

Home Services

Scope of work

/

UX & Product Design

Timeline

2019

One experience across three audiences

The home services market had operated largely on manual, ad-hoc coordination. Freska saw an opportunity to do something genuinely different — but the technology needed to span three distinct user groups whose needs rarely overlap neatly. For customers, we built a booking platform that lets people customise their service fully: choose time, recurrence, access arrangements, preferences for pets and cleaning products. Changes, reschedules, ratings, and cleaner communication all happen in the app. The goal was to erase the friction between managing a service and just having it. For Freska's internal staff, we built a custom extranet that lets a small support team coordinate thousands of customers and hundreds of cleaners without drowning in manual work. For the cleaners themselves — Freska calls them superheroes — a separate web app delivers their daily schedule, customer preferences, and the specific details they need to do the job right. Where possible, the system maintains continuity between individual cleaners and customers, so knowledge of a home builds over time. The work started from actual customer needs, established through service design research embedded within Freska's product team. Every feature decision traced back to a real finding. That discipline kept the scope honest and the products usable.

"Freska has been able to achieve a whole new level of customer experience in our services and products that exceeds what the market has seen before, thanks to tight collaboration with Nordkapp." — Sebastian Heinrichs, Co-founder & Group CEO, Freska

A positive cycle

The system Freska and we built creates three simultaneous wins — which is harder than it sounds. Customers feel genuinely in control of their homes and connected to the people who clean them. Cleaners are supported by good tools, clear information, and a company that treats them as professionals. Freska's operations scale because the coordination work is distributed across digital systems rather than concentrated in a customer support team. That last point matters for growth. The previous model required expanding the support team in proportion to the customer base. The new model inverts that relationship: more customers, proportionally less coordination overhead. Freska entered new markets on the strength of a technical and operational foundation that actually scales. Our way of working here was not project-based consulting. We embedded directly with Freska's product team, worked on-site alongside their CTO and product organisation, and maintained continuity across the full arc of the work. The result was not a handoff — it was a functioning, evolving product that the team continues to own and develop.

75% of Freska's customer base adopted the new app within one month of promotion. 4.7/5 average cleaning rating across 300,000 cleanings. Largest home cleaning company in Finland.

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Matti Mölsä

Managing Director / Partner

Aarni Kaartokallio

Business Development Specialist

Teppo Kotirinta

Design Director / Partner

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Get in touch.

Have a project in mind? Reach out to us, and we’ll discuss the best way to move forward.

Matti Mölsä

Managing Director / Partner

Aarni Kaartokallio

Business Development Specialist

Teppo Kotirinta

Design Director / Partner

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Get in touch.

Have a project in mind? Reach out to us, and we’ll discuss the best way to move forward.

Matti Mölsä

Managing Director / Partner

Aarni Kaartokallio

Business Development Specialist

Teppo Kotirinta

Design Director / Partner

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