Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ AZ
OpenWorks Franchise
A OpenWorks Holding Co brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1983. According to the 2024 FDD filing for OpenWorks, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $30K – $200K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 2,000
- Total locations · Large network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry openworks OpenWorks
OpenWorks needs $30K–$200K to open - an entry cost below the typical home services franchise.
- LO $30K
- HI $200K
- FEE $10K
- UNT 2,000
- I19 Silent
- INV# #209/223
- UNT# #57/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Coverall ($14K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for OpenWorks (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent OpenWorks's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.5% net unit growth (YoY) 48/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where OpenWorks's investment ranks nationally
OpenWorks's listed Item 7 low of $30K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
OpenWorks vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$30,000 Among the lowest lower than 95% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $10K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
50 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- commercial cleaning
- Founded
- 1983
- Franchising Since
- 1983
- Headquarters
- AZ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · OpenWorks
This OpenWorks page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for OpenWorks.
National footprint registry read for OpenWorks
Signature read: 2,000 locations · Item 7 low $30K
OpenWorks, a OpenWorks Holding Co franchise, has been franchising since 1983 , currently with 2,000 total locations (2,000 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in AZ. The registry records a total initial investment between $30K and $200K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $10K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
This registry summary does not carry royalty or ad-fund figures for this brand. OpenWorks has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
OpenWorks's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 2.5% net rate over the past year (100 openings, 50 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
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Related reading for OpenWorks: How to Evaluate a Franchise , OpenWorks has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How OpenWorks's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for OpenWorks , both outside HQ state AZ : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($30K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,000 here).
What to do with this
OpenWorks at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- OpenWorks scores 24/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $30K – $200K entry cost runs below the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #209 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Coverall sits at a comparable investment level ($14K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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