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Alfred charges $32 a week for one visit and $58 for two visits. Today is Monika’s second weekly visit to this particular client’s home. Swiftly she transfers her client’s clothes from the wire hangers they were delivered on to her own and puts them into their appropriate spots. Monika gets right to work – disappearing in a walk-through closet (there is a bathroom on the other end) to put away dry cleaning we picked up from the building’s concierge. The studio looks ready for a photoshoot and I wonder whether my place would look as stylish if I had a butler of my own. “She is one of the tidiest people I know,” Monika says. She has been with this particular client for about a year, but has yet to meet her. “You feel like you have a connection with everyone. “You meet almost everyone,” Monika tells me, noting that sometimes people work from home or end up being sick. “It’s a different feeling to have a human being, who you trust, who you feel is taking care of you and when you come home, you have a feeling of relief and a connection with another human being,” says Marcela Sapone, one of Alfred’s co-founders. After all, once you’ve signed up online, downloaded the app and had your in-person consultation, you are handing over the keys to your house. The service is named after Batman’s trusty butler and focuses on building relationships between clients and Alfreds. But Alfred can.įounded by two women in their late 20s, Hello Alfred is supposed to be an accessible and affordable way to get the help you need to balance work and personal life. Can Siri let the plumber in to repair that leaky sink? Make your bed? Wait for the cable guy? No. Forget Siri and other so-called “intelligent” personal assistants.