00Start Here & Launch Checklist
The roadmap, what to do first, and the phase-by-phase checklist with the “ready for a paying job” gate.
- 00-Start-Here-and-Launch-Checklist.pdf
Mobile Detailing LaunchBag
Start a mobile detailing business out of your own car: no shop, no van, no trailer.
Start with a menu you can deliver in a driveway, quote by vehicle and condition, and know which product never touches which surface before you are standing in front of the car.
Real pages from the bag. Open one to read it.
Introductory price $29. $39 starting Oct 25. Introductory price through October 24, 2026. From October 25, 2026, the price is $39. One purchase, yours to keep.
Checkout on Payhip. Your download link arrives by email right after payment. Refundable until you download, final after that (refund policy).
What’s in the bag
Numbered in the order you’ll use them. Guides that teach in order, spreadsheets that price and plan, field cards for the driveway, and paperwork that protects you. Two components include an editable Word version, which is why 10 components make 12 files.
01The Playbook
The business in real numbers, your setup decision, the gear, the work, the pricing logic and the repeat-business engine.
- 01-Playbook.pdf
02Startup Budget
Three setup tiers with dated estimates, an “already own it” column, category subtotals, operating costs and a runway calculator.
- 02-Startup-Budget.xlsx
03Pricing & Quote Builder
Menu Builder, a condition-aware Job Quote with an effective-hourly readout, Maintenance Plans, and a Job Log that signals when to raise prices.
- 03-Pricing-and-Quote-Builder.xlsx
04First Customers Plan + Scripts
The 30-day plan and every message you’ll send: quotes, reminders, review asks, the property-manager pitch, the graceful decline.
- 04-First-Customers-Plan.pdf
- 04-Booking-and-Outreach-Scripts.docx
05Products & Surfaces Guide
The minimal kit, the dilution habits, the towel system, and surface cards for what never touches what.
- 05-Products-and-Surfaces-Guide.pdf
06Where You Can Work
Wash-water rules, workspaces and permissions, sales-tax variance, and the three calls that answer it for your city, with a worksheet.
- 06-Where-You-Can-Work.pdf
07Job Day Cards + Paperwork Pack
The walk-around card, service routines with time targets, weather rules and close-out, plus the editable intake form, service agreement and quote.
- 07-Job-Day-Cards.pdf
- 07-Customer-Paperwork-Pack.docx
08Business Basics
Entity, licenses, bank, bookkeeping, taxes, and the customer’s-car insurance question with the six questions to ask an agent.
- 08-Business-Basics.pdf
09Sources
Where every number and rule came from, with links, so you can check anything yourself.
- 09-Sources.pdf
- 12files
- 85PDF pages
- 2spreadsheets
- 2Word files
- Researched August 2026
All 12 file names
- 00-Start-Here-and-Launch-Checklist.pdf
- 01-Playbook.pdf
- 02-Startup-Budget.xlsx
- 03-Pricing-and-Quote-Builder.xlsx
- 04-First-Customers-Plan.pdf
- 04-Booking-and-Outreach-Scripts.docx
- 05-Products-and-Surfaces-Guide.pdf
- 06-Where-You-Can-Work.pdf
- 07-Job-Day-Cards.pdf
- 07-Customer-Paperwork-Pack.docx
- 08-Business-Basics.pdf
- 09-Sources.pdf
All 12 files are in the ZIP; nothing is held back for an upsell.
A closer look inside
Pages and spreadsheet views from the files you download, not mockups. Open any one to read it.
What you’ll be able to do
Each one names the file that does it.
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Choose your version of the business
The three ways to run water and power, the four services to offer first, and the scope ladder: what you decline until you’re trained, and how to say it.
Playbook ch. 3 · Script 9
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Buy the kit beginners wish they’d bought first
A three-tier budget with the four documented overspends locked at quantity zero, low/typical/high prices, and a runway calculator.
Startup Budget
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Build a menu that pays your hourly
Your overhead and target income become a target rate, a minimum charge, and a price menu by service and vehicle size, with real market ranges beside every number.
Pricing & Quote Builder · Menu Builder tab
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Quote from photos and hold the price
Condition questions, three photos, and a LOW to HIGH range that widens when you haven’t seen the car. Confirmed at the walk-around, never renegotiated mid-job.
Pricing & Quote Builder · Job Quote tab · Script 2
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Run job days that protect you
The with-customer walk-around with photos, service routines with time targets, weather rules, and a close-out that gets you paid, reviewed and rebooked.
Job Day Cards + Paperwork Pack
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Book your first ten customers
A 30-day plan on the channels beginners report working, with every text, post and reply already written.
First Customers Plan + Scripts
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Turn one-time details into a route
The maintenance-plan pitch, the rates that make it work, and the job log that tells you when to raise prices.
Pricing & Quote Builder · Maintenance Plans and Job Log tabs
Who it’s for
- You want to start detailing from your own car or SUV: driveways first, no shop, no van required.
- You have a starting budget in the low four figures (less with gear you already own) and want to know exactly where it should and shouldn’t go.
- You’d rather follow a tested routine than piece one together yourself.
- You’re willing to text, quote, ask for reviews and offer maintenance plans, which is the selling half of the trade.
Who it’s not for
- You want to learn paint correction or ceramic coating.
- You’re opening a fixed-location shop with staff and a lease.
- You want an income promise. This bag reports real ranges, including the slow first months.
- You’re outside the US, since the legal, insurance and tax material is US-specific.
Eight phases, one gate
Start Here gives you the roadmap, and every file shows where you are on it. Phase 5 ends at the gate: you’re ready for a paying job.
Read the Playbook chapter for the phase, use the tool it points to, check off the list, move on. The reference files (Products & Surfaces, Where You Can Work, the Job Day Cards) ride along in the car and come out when a phase or a job calls for them.
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Understand the business
You know what it really pays, the odds, and who your customers are.
Playbook ch. 1–2 -
Choose your setup
Water model picked, service list set, not-yet list accepted.
Playbook ch. 3 · Startup Budget -
Get legitimate
Insured with the right questions asked, registered as required, the three local calls made.
Business Basics · Where You Can Work -
Gear up and practice
Kit bought without overspending; three practice cars done with the full routine.
Products & Surfaces · Playbook ch. 4–5 · Job Day Cards -
Price it
Your menu, your minimum and your condition policy are set.
Playbook ch. 6 · Pricing & Quote BuilderReady for a paying job -
Book your first ten
Ten jobs booked; reviews starting to land.
First Customers Plan + Scripts -
Run job days right
Walk-around, work, close-out, logged: every job, the same routine.
Job Day Cards + Paperwork Pack · Pricing & Quote Builder · Job Log tab -
Keep and grow
Repeat clients on a cadence, prices raised on data, a season plan ready.
Playbook ch. 7–8 · Pricing & Quote Builder · Maintenance Plans tab
What it doesn’t do
- It won’t teach machine polishing, ceramic coating, mold remediation or odor-machine work. It tells you why those wait, and what to say when a customer asks.
- Licensing, insurance, tax and water rules are described for the US, with a verify-locally path for everything that depends on where you work.
- It’s a bag of files, not a course or a subscription: one purchase, one download, yours to keep.
How it was made
- Researched in August 2026 across six areas: costs and equipment, services and pricing, technique and damage risks, legal and insurance, customer acquisition, and the beginner experience.
- Drawn from government and insurer pages, manufacturers’ guidance, detailers’ menus and policies in nine metros, and practitioner forums. They’re linked in the Sources file.
- The spreadsheets are generated from code, and every formula is tested against hand calculations, including blanks, zeros and text typed into number cells.
- Every number is sourced or labeled a dated estimate, anything jurisdiction-dependent says verify locally, and a separate review pass, done apart from the writing, checked it before release.
Made and supported by Frog Labs LLC, the company behind LaunchBag.
More on the process: how a LaunchBag is made.
Before you buy
The questions people ask about this bag. More on the support page.
What exactly do I get, and how?
A ZIP with 10 components in 12 files: 8 PDF guides (85 pages total), 2 spreadsheets (.xlsx) and 2 editable Word documents (.docx). Two components come as a pair: the First Customers Plan (PDF) with its Scripts (Word), and the Job Day Cards (PDF) with the Customer Paperwork Pack (Word). Checkout is on Payhip. The ZIP is on screen and in Payhip’s email right after payment; keep the email, and if you ever lose it we re-send the files free.
Do the spreadsheets work in Google Sheets?
Yes. They use standard formulas only, dropdowns backed by list sheets, and no macros, so they open in Excel and Google Sheets. Yellow cells are yours; gray cells calculate.
Isn’t this all on YouTube?
Much of the raw information is free, spread across hundreds of videos and threads that contradict each other. The most common beginner question in this trade is “what do I actually need?” This bag is that answer, in order: the shortlist, the sequence, the tools that calculate, and the paperwork.
Does it teach paint correction or ceramic coating?
Deliberately not. Machine polishing can burn through paint, and coatings lock in whatever’s underneath, so that’s skill training you take on later, on a path the Playbook lays out. This bag builds the wash-and-interior business that funds it, and gives you the words to decline those jobs professionally in the meantime.
How do I price a job when the car turns out to be filthy?
That’s the core of the bag: condition questions and three photos before quoting, a LOW to HIGH range from the Job Quote tab that widens when you haven’t seen the vehicle, and a walk-around confirmation before work starts. The tool also shows the effective hourly on every quote, so underpricing is visible before you hit send.
Can I detail at apartments or offices?
Often, with the property manager’s permission. The bag shows you the rinseless setup that usually turns a no into a yes (no hose, one or two gallons, no runoff), plus the message to send. Wash-water rules vary by city; Where You Can Work gives you the three calls that answer yours.
What’s the refund policy?
LaunchBags are digital downloads: a full refund if you haven’t downloaded anything, and all sales are final once you have, with four exceptions. We refund duplicate charges; if a file won’t open in the listed formats, or the product is materially different from what this page says, we fix it, or refund you if we can’t; and we refund where the law requires it. Change of mind isn’t refundable. Read the refund policy.
Will it be updated?
Prices, fees and rules change, so every figure is dated. We review the time-sensitive ones from time to time, and when something material changes we may send existing customers updated files.
Can I print it?
Yes. The PDFs are laid out for US Letter and read well in grayscale. The Job Day Cards and the surface cards are meant to be printed and used in the field.
Get the Mobile Detailing LaunchBag
12 files: 8 PDF guides (85 pages), 2 spreadsheets for Excel or Google Sheets, and 2 editable Word files. One download, yours to keep.
Introductory price $29. $39 starting Oct 25. Introductory price through October 24, 2026. From October 25, 2026, the price is $39.
By clicking “Get the bag” and completing checkout on Payhip, you agree to LaunchBag’s Terms and refund policy. This is a digital download: refundable until you download a file, and all sales are final after that, with the exceptions in the refund policy. Not legal, tax, insurance, or safety advice, and the templates are not a substitute for the advice of an attorney; no income promises.
Sold by Frog Labs LLC. To receive our legal name and business address by email, write to contact@froglabsllc.com.
- Pay on Payhip’s checkout page.
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- Unzip and open 00 Start Here & Launch Checklist. The files are numbered in reading order.