Swept and Janitorial Manager, where they split.

Pick Swept if your pain is in the field: running routes and proving the clean to a client with timestamped inspections. Pick Janitorial Manager if your pain is in the office: estimators pricing the same building three different ways, and bids you want loaded against one consistent model. Both sit in the wider market on the all-in-one platform guide next to BrightGo and WinTeam.

Swept is built for cleaning from the ground up. The inspections module produces timestamped photos and quality scores a client can read, sitting next to scheduling, GPS clock-in, and crew messaging so a supervisor runs the route from one place. For a company whose hardest problem is field execution, that focus is most of what the operation needs.

Janitorial Manager earns its reputation at the bid. The work-loading calculator lets several estimators price jobs the same way against one set of loaded settings, with inspections, scheduling, and timekeeping around it. For a growing company that wants consistent estimating and back-office structure in one cleaning-specific suite, it is a sound, affordable answer.

Each is built once and configured for every cleaning company. That holds until your edge lives in something neither models, like a labor-burden rule specific to your market or a renewal-risk signal that reads inspection trends per client against the renewal date. When the platform almost fits, the gap becomes a spreadsheet the owner maintains by hand, and the data on one account ends up split between the app and that sheet.

Neither vendor will rebuild itself around one company, which is the correct call for a product serving thousands. It also means the workflow that is uniquely yours stays a manual workaround for as long as you run on the packaged set.

Colby builds the missing piece around your operation and wires it into what you already run, so you keep Swept or Janitorial Manager or whatever suite works and add only the workflow it cannot cover. You can see the operations side of that on the work-order routing use case, and how a build compares to each platform on the Swept and Janitorial Manager pages.

Start with where the work hurts. If supervisors are losing the route and clients want proof the building was cleaned, Swept is the sound pick. If estimators price inconsistently and the owner wants every bid loaded against one model, Janitorial Manager is built for that.

The signal for a custom build is different. It shows up when the thing that wins your accounts is the thing no packaged product covers, or when the owner has become the integration between tools. Colby starts with a three-week discovery that maps how work moves through your company, then hands you a readout of build options to choose from. You own what gets built, and Colby hosts and maintains it. The quickest read on where you stand is to score your operation or start a quote.