CleanSlate AI vs CleanGuru

CleanGuru built its reputation on bidding. If you have ever sat down to price a 40,000 square foot office and wanted production rates and a proposal template rather than a blank spreadsheet, that is the problem CleanGuru set out to solve, and it solves it well.

It has since added scheduling, timekeeping, invoicing, and inspections around that core. So the comparison to CleanSlate AI is fair to make — but the two products are built from opposite ends of the business.

Two different starting points

CleanGuru starts at the bid. The center of gravity is winning work: estimate the job, produce the proposal, send it, track it.

CleanSlate AI starts at the operation. The center of gravity is running the work that already exists without the owner in the middle of it — shifts confirmed, call-outs covered, invoices sent and chased, clients updated, leads answered.

Both eventually touch the other end. Where a product started still shows in how deep it goes.

Where CleanGuru is stronger

Bidding depth. Production-rate estimating with an established library of task times is CleanGuru's strength. If your business is won or lost on bid accuracy, that focus is worth something.

Proposal templates. Mature and specific to janitorial work.

Lower entry price. CleanGuru's published entry pricing starts below CleanSlate's, scaling with cleaner count. If cost is the binding constraint and bidding is your main need, that matters — check both against your actual headcount before deciding.

Where CleanSlate AI is different

The operation runs itself. Every platform in this category will let you build a schedule. The question is what happens at 9 PM when someone cannot make their shift. In CleanSlate, Ace texts qualified available crew in order, takes the first confirmation, updates the schedule, and tells the client. Nobody opens a laptop.

Crews never log in. SMS in the crew member's own language. No app, no password, no onboarding friction every time you hire.

Collections are automatic and terms-aware. Invoices go out on schedule and follow up on a cadence tied to that client's payment terms — so a NET 30 client is not chased on day 10 as though they are late.

You run it by text. Ask it anything about your business and get an answer, day or night.

Every feature in every band. Pricing scales on crew count only: $99/month up to 9 crew, $199 for 10–29, $349 for 30–59, $549 for 60–99, custom above. There is no tier where a feature you need sits behind an upgrade.

Where CleanSlate is genuinely behind

CleanSlate has a bid calculator with production-rate estimating and market comparison, and it is free to use on the site. But CleanGuru has been refining bidding for longer, and if estimating precision is the single thing your business runs on, that is a real difference. Worth saying plainly.

Which one fits

Choose CleanGuru if your bottleneck is winning work. If you are losing bids you should win, or pricing jobs you later regret, sharpen that first.

Choose CleanSlate AI if your bottleneck is you. If you have plenty of work and cannot take more because every schedule change, call-out, invoice, and inbound lead routes through your phone, better estimating does not help. The operation has to run without you.

A practical test

Look at last week. Count the hours you spent on work that had a right answer — confirming shifts, chasing a payment, texting for coverage, answering a lead. Then count the hours you spent on work that needed your judgment.

If the first number is bigger, that is the problem to fix, and it is not a bidding problem.