Updated October 2026
License your janitorial company's records to AI buyers
There are 13,393 US janitorial companies with 10 or more employees, and 4,573 of them have 30 or more.1
A commercial cleaning company wins and keeps accounts in writing. The bid starts with a walkthrough, square footage by floor type and a production rate per hour, then turns into a scope of work that says what gets done nightly, weekly and quarterly. After that comes the steady record: inspection scores from the area manager, the facility manager's email about a restroom that was missed, the supply order, the callout covered at 10pm by moving a cleaner from another building, and the corrective plan sent before the contract renewal.
No buyer we track names janitorial work, so the fit comes from what they do list. Polyshares has a Home and field services category, Nyne names jobs, dispatch, calendars and support tickets, and micro1 asks for SOPs and workflows employees repeat every day. No buyer we track has published a janitorial deal, so a price comes only from an offer on your own records.
Two parts of the record need care. Employee files in a high-turnover business are large and personal, and building access details come from your clients, so in our reading most of the value sits in bids, inspections, scopes and complaint threads instead. Take the quiz to see which buyers take a company your size.
Worth
What a company's data may be worth
Set for a typical company, 60 staff and 8 years of records. Move the sliders to match yours. Our estimate, not an offer.
Buyers
Which buyers want this data
Buyers whose own published rules fit commercial cleaning and janitorial companies. We can introduce you to the ones we work with.
Featured partners
micro1
Asks for SOPs, playbooks and workflows employees repeat; a cleaning scope and an inspection checklist are written that way.11,12
- $100K to $2M+, micro1 says5
Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.13
Polyshares
Its closest intake category, by our mapping, is Home and field services, and it asks for work orders, job tickets and site records from field tools.14,15
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says9
- None, Polyshares says16
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days17
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.18,19
Grepped
States no headcount minimum and reads only the systems you approve, so employee files can stay out entirely.24,25
Watch out for: Its own site code calls its estimator "deliberately optimistic", so treat any estimate as an indication.26,27
Everyone else we reviewed
By score, with full reviews. We have no referral agreement with these companies, so we do not link out to them.
Who wants this
Do buyers want commercial cleaning and janitorial companies?
No buyer publishes prices by industry, but their own intake forms show which industries they rate higher.
- Troveo puts logistics, field service or supply chain (our closest match) in its second of four demand tiers: "Your industry carries above-average buyer demand."28
- Polyshares takes home and field services (our closest match), without marking it premium.29
Which buyers take a company your size
Shown for 60 staff, a typical company. Ask whether contractors and part-time staff count.
micro1
Polyshares
No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more32
Mode
20+ full-time US office staff (accounting firms 10+, law firms 6+)33
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years; by industry, from 10+ (healthcare) to 50+ (manufacturing, finance)34,35,36
Grepped
No headcount minimum stated24
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records37
Mercor
None stated38
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2039
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years21
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees40
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years41
What buyers value
What in a company's records buyers value
What buyers look for in your records, and what to talk through with your buyer before anything leaves your systems.
| Data | Where it lives | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bids and production-rate worksheets | Spreadsheets or bidding software | Square footage, floor types, frequencies and labor hours turned into a price, with the won and lost bids side by side. | Client names and pricing tied to named buildings. |
| Scopes of work and cleaning schedules | Word documents, shared drive | What gets done in each area and how often, the written standard every crew is held to. | Nothing specific |
| Quality inspection reports | Inspection apps (Swept, CleanTelligent, Janitorial Manager) | Scores by area with notes and corrective actions, a long record of checking work against a standard. | Nothing specific |
| Facility manager requests and complaint threads | Email, work order portals | A problem reported, a fix promised and a follow-up sent, the moments that keep or lose an account. | Tenant and facility staff names in the threads. |
| Coverage and callout logs | Scheduling app, text threads | How a night with callouts still gets every building cleaned. | Cleaner names, phone numbers and pay details. |
| Training and chemical safety material | Shared drive, training binders | The method the company wrote for itself on floors, restrooms and chemical handling. | Nothing specific |
A week of records
A week of data at a company
- Monday: the area manager inspects several buildings and logs scores, with a corrective note for one breakroom.
- Tuesday: a facility manager emails about a missed trash pickup, and the reply sets a fix and a check-back.
- Wednesday: the estimator walks a medical office for a bid and builds the production-rate worksheet that night.
- Thursday: cleaners call out sick, and the night supervisor moves staff across sites to cover.
- Friday: supply orders go out against each building's usage, and payroll hours are checked against the schedule.
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so.
micro1
- Internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project management workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, task histories11
- 30 to 200 employees31
- $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data5
- PII removed "when relevant"13
- The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release42
- Not published
Polyshares
Selling or closing
Selling or closing your company? License its data first
When a janitorial company is sold, its contracts are, in our reading, what the acquirer is paying for. The bids, inspections and scopes behind those contracts are a different set of records, and whether a license of them could come first is a question to talk through with the buyer you're working with. Pewter takes companies that are operating, winding down or closed with 20+ people now or at their peak. Ask each buyer how a license is shown to the acquirer before you sign either deal.2,3
FAQ
Commercial cleaning and janitorial companies: questions, answered
Bids with their production rates, the scopes of work and the inspection results that check crews against them. micro1 says it looks for well defined workflows that employees execute repeatedly, and in our reading an inspection checklist run every week is exactly that.12
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Questions to talk through with your buyer
Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.
Questions for this kind of business
- How are building access codes, alarm details and tenant names removed before release?
- Are employee records, including immigration and payroll files, kept out by default?
- Do government or healthcare facility accounts carry confidentiality terms for our work records?
- How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
- How are employee data, union contracts and NLRA questions handled?
- Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
Questions for any buyer
- Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
- Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
- Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
- How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
- What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
- Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
- Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?