Run it, grow it, and one day sell it.
Most software for this trade helps you get through tonight. taskforse is built for the longer thing: taking a janitorial company from one that only works because you are in it, to one somebody else would want to buy.
We asked, and the gap was obvious
Every company that joins the waitlist is asked how many cleaners they run and what makes the job hard. 801 have joined, 770 have answered, and the same picture comes back every time: quoting and call-off coverage in a dead heat at roughly 65% each, with proof of work third and climbing.
What nobody has is one place for all of it. Operators run the quoting in a spreadsheet, the coverage on a phone at nine at night, the hours in one app, the proof in another, and the invoicing somewhere else again. There is still no tool that runs the whole company.
Read the findingsThe goal is that you stop being the bottleneck
In most janitorial companies the owner is the system. The pricing is in their head, the good cleaners answer their phone, and the client trusts them personally. That works, right up until it is the thing holding the company at the size it is.
Stability is what happens when the work no longer runs through one person. The quoting follows a method instead of an instinct, the coverage happens whether or not anyone is awake, the follow-ups chase themselves, and every building has a record that outlives whoever opened it. That is what the automations and the pipelines are for. Not busywork removed, but a company that keeps running when you are not in the room.
And that is the same thing a buyer is paying for. A company that only works because the owner is in it is a job, and it sells like one. A company where the scope, the schedule, the crews, the history and the numbers are all written down is a business, and it can change hands without falling over. Run, grow and sell are not three products. They are the same work, done early enough to be worth something later.
Thirty years on both sides of the contract.
Neil Lathangue spent three decades in commercial property management, running $3.5 billion in real estate assets and Canada’s largest office tower at over three million square feet. He was the person who hired cleaning companies, read the monthly report and decided at renewal.
He then ran one. As CEO of Omni Facility Services, Canada’s largest janitorial company, he inherited negative EBITDA, lost market share and a bruised reputation, and rebuilt it. He sold it in the largest janitorial transaction this country has seen, then co-founded GDI Integrated Facility Services and ran it as President and board director: $250 million a year, a national platform, and one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies.
He has run a janitorial company from three employees to seven thousand. taskforse is what he wished the companies he hired had been running.
“Taskforse was designed to make a difference. A difference by developing janitorial companies beyond today, being better tomorrow. The most delivered service every night is ready to evolve. Taskforse ensures that. Practically and with the hindsight and foresight of experienced operators. Designed for jancos, by jancos.”
Who is building it
Three people, so far. taskforse is a Portico AI Solutions product.
Ludovic Martin
Designs the product and the brand, and sets pricing and go-to-market. Runs the beta cohort and its automations, the newsletter, partnerships and outreach.
lmartin@taskforse.comNeil Lathangue
Thirty years on both sides of the contract, as told above. Every production rate, margin and pricing decision in the product is his.
nlathangue@taskforse.comMathias Delage
Built the AI voice receptionist and owns the platform build: the beta the first cohort will use, and the roadmap their feedback writes.
mdelage@taskforse.comBe there when the door opens.
First trial invitations, the findings as they land, and the free bid calculator today.