Run your quality program on an inspection platform built for many cleaning companies, or have software built around how your company already inspects, scores, and reports. OrangeQC is a real, credible product, and for many operators it is the right call. Colby is the other path: custom systems you own, built after a three-week discovery, then hosted and maintained by us.
Why operators go looking
A growing janitorial company wants to prove cleaning quality to clients and catch problems before the client does. OrangeQC handles that inspection loop well: mobile QC scores and client-facing quality reports, with a work order kicked off whenever an item fails.
The catch shows up at the edges of the inspection. The inspection score is clean, but the quote that won the account still takes three days to leave Excel. Payroll eats six hours every Friday. And prospecting depends on whoever remembers to follow up. Quality control is one workflow in an operation that has four or five that drag.
An operator looking at OrangeQC is often asking a bigger question. Which of my workflows should software own, and do I want to fit them to a platform or build them around how I already run?
Platform vs. custom, honestly
OrangeQC, along with other cleaning-quality platforms, is built once and configured for many companies. That has real advantages: fast adoption, an inspection product proven across the industry, and a vendor whose whole business is the software. Custom trades some of that speed for fit and ownership. This compares the two approaches at a high level rather than auditing every feature of any single product.
If an inspection platform fits how you run quality, adopt it. That is the faster path, and we will tell you so on the call. The custom path is for operators whose quality program is one piece of a system that also has to quote, staff, and bill.
What Colby builds for janitorial companies
AI is the tool. Every build removes one specific operational bottleneck, quality inspections included, and every one ships with hosting and maintenance.
Quote turnaround: walkthrough notes to a priced proposal without re-keying. RFP intake and first-draft response. Pricing logic encoded so it stops depending on one manager.
QC inspections and client quality reports wired into the same system that runs scheduling, time reconciliation, payroll prep, and job-level margin. Account lifecycle from contract start through staffing changes and renewal.
Prospect sourcing and enrichment, so reps stop spending mornings sourcing instead of selling. Follow-up that does not depend on memory.
Colby hosts and maintains every system it builds. You own the software; we keep it running, patched, and current as your operation changes.
How an engagement works
Discovery & Prioritization comes first: three weeks at a fixed discovery fee. We map how work actually moves through your company, from intake and quoting to inspections, scheduling, payroll, and billing, and find where the handoffs break.
Discovery ends with a readout: a prioritized menu of builds, each scoped and priced on its own. You pick what gets built and in what order. We never quote build prices before discovery, because pricing software nobody has scoped is how projects go sideways.
Three weeks of discovery. Then build by build, each scoped and priced on its own. After each build ships, Colby hosts and maintains it. You own the system, and we keep it running.
Tell us what you are evaluating. We will reply within one business day and walk you through what the custom path would look like for your operation, including whether a discovery is worth it before you commit to a platform.
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