Built from the cleaner up.
CleanReports was founded by a cleaning operative. That matters.
The compliance gaps in UK residential building management are not, in most cases, caused by bad intentions. They are caused by absent systems. Nobody captured the observation. Nobody generated the record. Nobody started the clock.
The problem we saw
Patrick Jordan is a cleaning operative. For years, he has walked through the communal areas of residential blocks across the south of England — stairwells, entrance lobbies, corridors, bin stores — and observed things that never got recorded. A damp patch spreading on a ceiling. A fire door that would not close properly. A sensor battery that had not been changed in months.
He is not unique. Every cleaning operative working communal areas sees this. The problem is that when the operative walks out of the building, the observation leaves with them. There is no system. There is no record. There is no starting point for the compliance clock that the law now requires.
Awaab's Law requires social landlords to investigate damp and mould hazards within 10 working days of notification. The Building Safety Act 2022 demands a continuous Golden Thread of occupation-phase evidence. The Regulator of Social Housing is inspecting every registered provider. The compliance clock is running in every building in the country.
The question is whether anyone is generating the evidence to show it started when it should have.
"The cleaning operative is the most present contractor in your building. CleanReports turns every visit into a sealed compliance record."
What we built
CleanReports is an occupation-phase compliance platform for UK residential block management. Every time a cleaning operative enters a building's communal areas, CleanReports generates a timestamped, SHA-256 sealed inspection record — photo evidence, area-by-area observations, and a regulatory cascade that routes each finding to the appropriate statutory framework.
The record is immutable. It cannot be edited or deleted after submission. It is a legally standing document that shows what the operative observed, when they observed it, and what escalation — if any — followed.
When a damp patch is first observed, the 10-working-day Awaab's Law investigation clock starts from that record — not from the date a vulnerable tenant found the courage to complain. When a fire door defect is logged, the responsible person receives a structured notification with the regulatory basis for action. When a building's condition changes over time, the audit trail shows it.
Where we are
CleanReports Ltd (Company No. 17132967) is currently in active consultation with managing agents, contractors, and regulators. We are not in commercial sale. We are building the right product, for the right people, based on what we hear before we sell.
We are working toward our first pilot at Guildhall Apartments in Southampton — a nine-storey block that appears on the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service list of buildings with potentially dangerous cladding. It is not a convenient pilot site. It is the right one.
CleanReports is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under reference ZC121439. We hold professional indemnity cover of £2 million and cyber insurance of £250,000.
Our principle
"Built from the cleaner up" is not a tagline. It is a constraint on every decision we make. The product must work for the person in the stairwell, on their phone, in a building they visit twice a week. If it does not work for them, it does not work. The compliance value flows from the operative. Everything else is downstream.
We are not selling trust. We are building the record that earns it.