NORTHN FOR COMMERCIAL CLEANING & PROPERTY SERVICES
The job is judged after you leave.
Prove it before you do.
Built for make-ready turns, final cleans, monthly contracts and city cleanup orders. Your crew photographs or videos the finished work before leaving the property, the client signs off from their phone, and payment follows the sign-off instead of the AP calendar.
Launching Texas-first, with a small founding group.
MAKE-READY TURNS — BLDG 4, 12 UNITS — $9,600
FUNDED PER BATCHBatch 1 — Units 401–404 turned
APPROVED · RELEASED
Batch 2 — Units 405–408 turned
PHOTOS IN · AWAITING SIGN-OFF
Batch 3 — Units 409–412 turned
CREW ON SITE · PHOTOS PENDING
Close-out — Common areas + dumpster haul
RELEASES ON PM WALK
WHY THIS EXISTS
Paid last, blamed first
A make-ready gets inspected days after your crew left, by someone who wasn't there. A city won't close a cleanup order without disposal receipts and restoration photos. And whatever the job, the invoice waits on someone else's calendar. The work got done. What's missing is proof from the minute it was finished.
The 'it wasn't cleaned' call
By the time anyone looks, a leasing agent, a maintenance tech and a new tenant have walked through. Time-stamped photos of every room, before and after, settle whose mess it is.
Net-45 on work already done
A recurring contract floats a month of payroll on the client's AP cycle. When the client's sign-off is what releases the payment, the invoice stops waiting in an inbox.
THE FIX
Guesswork and net-45, replaced
A walkthrough three weeks later, from memory
Before-and-after photos per room, time-stamped while the crew is still in the unit
Invoice into the property manager's inbox, then wait
The property manager approves the visit the day it's done, and that approval is what pays you
Disposal receipts in a truck's glovebox
Weight tickets and dump receipts captured at the gate and attached to the order
A review you have to ask for as a favor
After approval, the client is asked for a rating only the person who paid can leave. It goes on your public track record
Same crews, same route, same supply closet. What changes is the close-out: the client sees the finished work while your crew is still on the property, and renewal starts from a year of approved visits instead of a price-only rebid.
THE EVIDENCE MOMENTS
Captured before the next person walks in
Cleaning evidence has a short life; the next person through the door erases it. The app asks for the photos, or a short walkthrough video, while the crew is still on site.
Pre-clean walk
Wide photos per room as found: the damage, the trash, the state of the appliances. The baseline that separates your scope from the last tenant's.
Room by room, after
Kitchen, baths, floors, windows. One after photo per room, checked off against the make-ready list the property manager agreed to.
Disposal & haul
Dumpster fill, weight tickets, dump receipts, captured at the gate for the city's file or the property manager's compliance folder.
Sign-off
The final wide photo or a walkthrough video, then the client's approval: one tap, with a short undo window. The review ask follows on the same screen.
WHAT THE PROTECTION COVERS
The contract stays yours. The record is what gets it renewed.
| Job | Typical ticket | What the record protects |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly office contract | $4,800 / month | Every visit approved before the month closes |
| Make-ready batch (12 units) | $9,600 | Before-and-after per unit, paid on approval |
| Post-construction final clean | $6,500 | Approved before the GC's punch walk |
| Municipal cleanup order | $22,000 | Receipts and restoration in one packet the city accepts |
When the client funds a batch, a month or an order up front, their approval releases the payment and the job ends with a payment-verified review. When they don't, you still hold the record: every visit approved, time-stamped, and yours to carry to the next bid.
BEYOND PAYMENTS
An AI supervisor on every route
The checklist runs itself
The app knows each unit's make-ready list and prompts the photos room by room, in English or Spanish. A missed bathroom pings the lead before the crew leaves, not the property manager after the tenant moves in.
Surprises become add-ons
Hoarder unit, biohazard, an appliance that has to go? Photo it, flag it, and it reaches the office as a priced add-on, approved before the crew spends the afternoon on it.
CREW RECORDS
Scorecards per crew, measured from sealed evidence.
BUILT FOR WHAT YOU RUN
Designed to sit beside the property-management or field system your office already runs: work orders and schedules in, approved visits back. No double entry. Founding-group integrations ship first. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners, listed to describe interoperability — not affiliation or endorsement.
Built in Dallas–Fort Worth — the founding group walks its first jobs in the Metroplex, with us on site. Texas first.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
The questions you're already asking
We're paid monthly, not per job.
That works. A monthly contract is one engagement; each visit, or each week of visits, is a milestone the property manager approves as it happens. The month closes with every visit proven, and the invoice carries the approvals instead of asking for them.
Our property managers won't fund up front.
Then don't ask them to yet. The manager still approves each visit, the approval is sealed, and you invoice the way you do today with the proof attached. Funding up front is what turns the approval into the payment and unlocks the verified review, so start with the one manager who already trusts you.
Can we use the photos and video for marketing?
When the client says yes. On the sign-off screen, right after approval, the client is asked whether you may use the footage in your marketing, and the answer is recorded with the approval. The sealed original never changes; your before-and-after reel is cut from a copy. Nothing is used without that yes.
Does it help with city and municipal work?
Cleanup orders need disposal receipts, restoration photos and dates nobody can argue with. Northn captures them at the gate and exports the packet the city asks for: one record, not a folder of phone photos. The inspector's approval closes the order.
Is this a lead site or a marketplace?
No. Northn sells no leads and lists no directory. You bring the contracts you already have; Northn makes each visit provable and, where the client funds it, gets you paid on approval.
Do the work once.
Never argue about it twice.
Founding spots are few, and we set each one up in person. Bring one contract or one make-ready batch and we'll walk the first close-out with your crew, on site.
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