You're probably comparing  a few cleaning companies right now.

Cleaning companies come in two flavors. The experienced ones have decades in the industry — they know buildings, chemicals, and crews — but they run on phone calls, paper checklists, and a binder in someone's truck. The startup ones have slick software and no idea how long it actually takes to properly clean a bathroom.

Slate is the combination the industry doesn't usually produce: deep cleaning operations experience, and technology we built ourselves — because nothing off the shelf understood the job of managing small teams across hundreds of small locations.

What that means for you: you never have to ask "did the cleaners come last night?" Every visit, every issue, every invoice is in one place you can check from anywhere — not scattered across text threads with a crew chief.

Almost every commercial cleaning company is designed around the big facility: one address, one crew, one supervisor walking the floor. Their whole operation — staffing, scheduling, supervision — assumes the work is in one place.

Ours assumes the opposite. Everything about Slate is designed for spaces measured in hundreds of square feet, scattered across cities: how we recruit locally, how we schedule short after-hours visits, how we supervise a team nobody's standing next to. It's the harder version of the problem, and it's the only version we do.

What that means for you: no location is too small or too far to get the full standard. Opening location twelve works exactly like opening location two — and you never have to find another vendor again.

Here's how most cleaning relationships begin: the contract gets signed, cleaners show up, and everyone hopes for the best.

And here's how most of them end. Things are good for a while. Then quality starts to slide — slowly enough that no single week feels worth a confrontation. You get busier. Chasing your cleaning company becomes a part-time job you never applied for. Eventually you say the words every cleaning company should fear: let's just switch.

If you're reading this page, there's a decent chance you're somewhere on that curve right now.

That decay isn't bad luck. It's what happens when nobody writes down what "good" means — because then the only quality control system is you noticing. And you have a business to run.

So we never start by just sending cleaners. Every new client begins with a discovery phase: time spent understanding your spaces, your problems, and your opportunities. From that, we build a cleaning plan — a team suited to your exact type of cleaning, the schedule, and a quality control plan that says what we're going to do and how we'll know we did it. We set the expectations in writing. Then we hold ourselves accountable to them — so you don't have to.

What that means for you: quality that holds in month eighteen, not just month one. And when something does slip, we catch it before you do — because catching it is our system's job, not yours.