Industries — Cleaning & Facilities

Automation for cleaning & facilities businesses.

Contract cleaning and facilities management businesses operate with high staff turnover, complex multi-site rotas and compliance requirements that don't forgive lapses. We build the systems that make scale manageable.

The challenge

High turnover makes manual onboarding unsustainable.

Constant new starter admin

Cleaning businesses can onboard hundreds of staff per year. Contracts, right-to-work checks, DBS applications, uniform allocation — every one handled manually by an overstretched admin team.

Compliance gaps are a liability

Right-to-work checks missed. DBS renewals not tracked. Insurance certificates lapsed. In regulated environments, a compliance gap is a contract-ending event.

Client reporting is labour-intensive

Monthly reports compiled manually for each contract. Attendance records, quality audit scores, incident logs — all gathered from different places, formatted differently each time.

Rota changes create chaos

Last-minute absence on a cleaning contract. Manager scrambling to find cover, calling down a list, updating the rota manually. A process that happens multiple times a week, every week.

What we build

Systems built for facilities operations.

Every engagement is specific to your operation. These are the systems we most commonly build for cleaning and facilities clients.

01

Self-serve onboarding flow

New starters complete contracts, right-to-work uploads and personal details through a single link. Data lands in BreatheHR automatically. Works at volume — 10 starters or 100, the process is the same.

02

Compliance tracking and alerts

Right-to-work expiry dates, DBS renewal dates and certification deadlines tracked automatically. Alerts sent to HR before they lapse — not discovered after a client audit.

03

Automated client reporting

Monthly contract reports generated automatically from attendance, audit and incident data. Consistent format across every contract, delivered on schedule without an admin team compiling them manually.

04

WhatsApp absence and cover management

Staff report absence via WhatsApp. The system logs it, notifies the site manager and triggers a cover request to available staff — automatically, without a manager working the phones.

What changes

Outcomes within weeks, not quarters.

Zero
Compliance gaps from missed expiry dates
Scalable
Onboarding process that handles 10 or 100 starters
Automated
Client reports delivered on schedule every month
Faster
Absence reported and cover found without manager calls
Tools we use
BreatheHR Xero Payroll Make.com WhatsApp Business API Google Sheets Looker Studio

Running a cleaning or facilities business?

Book a 20-minute discovery call. We'll identify where admin is costing you most and what to fix first.