Alfred, an on-demand personal concierge service in New York, allows busy office workers to hire an unseen servant to dispatch a number of tasks using the new app.
Marcela Sapone, who created the company in Boston with Jess Beck in 2013, said that since opening a New York office last year, the company has hired 75 'Alfreds' to work in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, 'New York Post' reported.
Alfred makes money by clustering at least three brief stops per building and charging for laundry and cleaning.
Alfred plans to expand to at least 10 US cities by 2017.
The service is available to New Yorkers at USD 99 per month.
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