How to automate your cleaning team
Liam Jones
Founder of Pilla
Date Modified
3 June 2026
AI Summary
I'm Liam Jones, founder of Pilla and a qualified management consultant. I've helped hundreds of cleaning businesses set up their routines on Pilla, and in this article I'll walk you through 12 real workflows that automate a commercial cleaning team's week, from winning a new contract and inducting the crew through to the daily rounds, the specialist jobs, and the weekly quality audit. You can open up each template in our workflow builder playground as a starting point and experiment for yourself. If you have any suggestions or you need some help, you can email me directly.
Article Content
A cleaning team gets through a lot in a shift. This page pulls together the workflows a cleaning team runs most, grouped by when you use them, so you can find the one you need and set it up in minutes.
Every workflow below is one you can build on Pilla and hand to your team to run on their phones. Open any one to see four versions, from a simple checklist up to a signed, photo-backed record, and pick the level that fits how you work.