Your techs track materials on paper, hours on a clipboard, and overhead is allocated by gut feel. Job costing happens in a spreadsheet two weeks after the job closed — if it happens at all. Zero Double Entry means every cost is captured live so you always know your margin before the invoice goes out.
Key Finding: Independent workflow analysis indicates that unresolved job cost tracking issues in Cleaning & Janitorial operations hinder efficiency. Research shows that Mid-sized contracting operations lose up to 18% of budgeted margins due to post-completion cost reconciliation lags [1].
Commercial cleaning, janitorial services, and specialty cleaning (carpet, window, post-construction).
875,000+
US Companies
$250K–$2M
Avg. Revenue
10–50 cleaners
Field Crew Size
6% annually
Growth Rate
Commercial cleaning operates on thin margins with high turnover. When checklists, inspection reports, and time logs are on paper, quality verification is impossible and client complaints become he-said-she-said disputes.
Objective third-party statistics and research benchmarks relative to job cost tracking and cleaning & janitorial workflows.
A commercial cleaning company completes a post-construction cleanup for a GC. Three cleaners worked variable hours across two days. Supplies were pulled from the van without tracking. The invoice goes out at a flat rate — and the owner later realizes the actual cost was 30% higher than the quoted price.
Flat-rate quoting without real-time job costing leaves cleaning companies systematically underpricing labor-intensive jobs. Untracked supply cost alone averages 8–15% of job revenue.
On average, field service contractors underestimate job costs by 15–20%. On a $200K/month revenue base, that blindness costs $30K–$40K in unrecovered margin per year.
These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the job cost tracking gap. That's what we build.
We study exactly where job cost tracking happens in your cleaning & janitorial operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.
Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A real, functional prototype that eliminates the pain point and works with your existing tools.
You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the job cost tracking problem, you don't pay.
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A practical walkthrough of exactly how to eliminate this problem in your operation.
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