This is the same model we use in a walkthrough — labor displacement, fleet sizing, ownership cost, and payback. Change any input and the whole model recalculates.
We don’t publish list pricing. The range above assumes typical U.S. pricing for this class of robot, and shifts with configuration, service terms, and volume. Add your quote on the left to see your exact numbers.
Estimates only. Based on published robot throughput and U.S. janitorial wage benchmarks. Actual results vary with floor type, layout, traffic, and shift structure. Not a quotation.
Four steps, all auditable. Nothing hidden in a black box — you can reproduce every number by hand.
Recruiting and turnover cost, workers' comp premium reductions, chemical and water savings, and the revenue from taking on additional contracts. Every one of those is real, and every one is excluded — so the payback you see is the conservative case.
Cleanable square footage × passes per day ÷ practical throughput, where practical throughput is the spec-sheet coverage (all-covered mode) × 85% for turns, obstacles, and refills. Each unit gets 6 productive hours a day.
This is where most calculators cheat. We price the work at the pace a crew actually works — 2,800 sq ft/h mopping by default, 8,000 on a walk-behind, 14,000 on a ride-on — then credit those hours to the robot. A robot that finishes in 40 minutes what a cleaner takes 90 minutes on frees 90 minutes, not 40.
Floor passes are roughly two-thirds of janitorial labor. Displaced hours can never exceed that share — the model won't promise you savings you can't staff.
You pay for the unit once, then service and maintenance each year. Payback = what the fleet costs ÷ what it puts back per month (savings minus service). No depreciation games, no discounted-cash-flow theatre — just the month the cash crosses zero. Use the range shown when you haven’t got a quote yet, and drop your quoted numbers into the fields to lock the exact month.
Productive cleaning hours per robot per day, after charge and refill cycles.
Real-world throughput versus rated coverage — turns, obstacles, and refills included.
Share of janitorial hours that are floor passes. The rest — edges, restrooms, trash — stays with your crew.
Equipment life for the long-run view. Payback itself is pure cash — what you pay divided by what it returns each month.
We turn down projects. Here's when.
At typical U.S. janitorial wages, one unit usually takes longer than three years to pay back below that size — the floor simply does not generate enough labor hours to displace. We'll usually recommend SH1 or a conventional walk-behind instead, and tell you so. Run your own number above before you take our word for it.
Scrubbers need hard, flat surfaces. Carpet-heavy sites should look at MT1 Vac for vacuuming, not scrubbing. Thresholds over 2 cm and heavy grating break coverage.
Robots earn their keep on long runs. If most of your area is individual offices under 200 sq ft, the route time eats the benefit — compact units help, but the math gets thin.
This is the real failure mode. Someone on your side needs 30 minutes a week to check dashboards and swap a brush. Without that, any robot — ours or a competitor's — ends up in a closet.
Twenty minutes, one walkthrough, and a written coverage plan with modeled payback — no obligation, no pressure.