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description: How Lisa Macqueen's CleanCorp runs 600 cleaners with a 22-person management team — a deliberately lean, eight-figure commercial cleaning operation.
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Success Story

# Inside CleanCorp: 600 cleaners, a 22-person management team, and a deliberately lean growth story

Nearly 30 years in, Lisa Macqueen’s eight-figure commercial cleaning business runs super lean on culture, trust — and systems. CleanCorp has been part of the Swept family since 2017.

Commercial Cleaning Australia 600 field team · ~22 managers

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600Field team members, managed by a team of just 20–22

~22People on the entire management team — every position has to pay for itself

~30 yrsIn business — an eight-figure company on its way to nine

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About the business

## CleanCorp

Industry Commercial Cleaning

Based in Australia

Scale ~600 field team members · 20–22 management team

Swept customer since 2017

Services offered

Commercial cleaning

The Challenge

## Thirteen years of growth, then a plateau

Hamish Macqueen built CleanCorp on sheer dedication — growth upon growth upon growth for its first 13 years. Then it stalled. “I feel like we’ve plateaued,” he told his wife Lisa, “and I don’t know how to move us forward.”

Lisa was thriving in sales and marketing for a large hotel chain, and joining meant putting the family’s entire financial future in one place. She made the leap anyway — freeing Hamish to go deeper on operations while she went all-in on sales and marketing. Year 13: huge growth. Year 14: huge growth. Then a trip to the US, a major award, and the business took off from strength to strength.

The Swept Difference

## Running super lean, on purpose

The discipline behind CleanCorp’s growth is ruthless clarity about positions, not people: is this position going to move the business forward? Generate revenue? Pay for itself? If the answer is no, rethink it. The result is roughly 600 field team members managed by just 20 to 22 people.

Running that lean takes real systems and real trust. CleanCorp has run on Swept since 2017 — purpose-built software for growing janitorial businesses, part of the toolkit behind the operation — while a culture Lisa describes as operating at “the speed of trust” does the rest. It’s not words on a wall: the team protects that culture so fiercely that a poor fit, Lisa says, wouldn’t make it through probation.

> You have to be constantly… striving to be better, and that’s when you push your business forward — you get that growth.
> 
> **Lisa Macqueen**, CEO, CleanCorp

The Results

## Strength to strength

Today CleanCorp is an eight-figure business on its way to nine figures. Lisa’s job as CEO is eyes on the future: the vision, and the foresight to have what larger clients will want already in place.

Her engine for growth hasn’t changed: to be the best, you have to constantly strive to be better — and the growth follows.

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