Recording professional cleaning for AI

What this work involves

Professional cleaning looks simple until you try to teach it to a machine. You pick a cloth, fold it into quarters, work a surface from top to bottom, steer a trolley through a doorway and empty a bin without spilling it, and every one of those moves depends on what your hands see. To record it, you clean as usual while a camera on a head strap or cap films the whole sequence from where you stand.

The category here is cleaning as paid work in a business: offices, hotel rooms, shops, clinics, schools or common areas. Cleaning your own home needs different permissions, so it has its own household chores page. The recording fits into your normal shift and doesn't set your hours, your checklist or how fast you clean. Each project spells out its tasks before you accept.

What a recording can show

Some examples of what cleaning footage can cover (none of them describes a current project):

• Wiping desks, counters, glass and door handles in the same order every time.
• Sweeping, mopping and drying a floor, moving chairs and setting out wet-floor signs.
• Cleaning sinks, toilets and mirrors, then restocking paper and soap.
• Stripping and making a hotel bed, changing towels and folding linens.
• Loading a trolley, diluting a product by its label and emptying bins.

The footage we can use most is steady and well lit, with both hands and the surface in view. For camera height and pace, see the guide on how to record first-person video.

Permission and privacy on a cleaning shift

The places you clean belong to someone else, so you need written permission from the owner or manager of the site before recording. Anyone identifiable in the footage, such as a guest, patient or office worker, needs to sign a release. If a room is occupied, record in another one.

On a cleaning round you see a lot of private things: papers on desks, screens left on, a guest's suitcase, patient files in a clinic. Turn the camera away from them, or do that part of the task in an empty room. The guide to privacy and consent at work explains releases and permissions in more detail.

How to join the pool

1. 01

   Apply once

   Fill in the short form on the collector page, and mention where you clean: offices, hotel rooms, a clinic or somewhere else.

2. 02

   Wait for a suitable project

   If a project fits what you do, we arrange it with you by email. You see its requirements, equipment and exact rate before you accept.

3. 03

   Record and send

   You record the agreed tasks; people and automated checks then review the footage.

4. 04

   Get paid

   We pay for accepted footage in USD, as described above.

The steps are the same for every kind of footage, and the overview of how recording works explains them.

Other types of recording work

The types of recording work directory has the full list. These five are closest to cleaning work:

• Farm work: plant care, sorting produce and hand tools.
• Professional kitchen: prep, plating and station cleanup.
• Warehouse and stock: picking, packing and shelving goods.
• Household chores: laundry, tidying and organizing at home.
• Home cooking: an everyday meal in your own kitchen.

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