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Flat-fee audit · Cintas · UniFirst · Vestis · Alsco

Stop Overpaying Cintas, UniFirst, and Vestis. Recover Your Overcharges in 7 Days.

Keep 100% of your savings — pay a flat fee, not 50% of everything we find. We forensically audit your uniform contract and invoices to deliver an itemized, credit-ready dispute memo.

100% Fee-Back Guarantee: If we don't find at least $1,500 in discrepancies across your records, your audit fee is 100% refunded.
  • 7-day turnaround
  • Every overcharge documented
  • We never contact your supplier
  • Built for 15–150-wearer accounts

Sample reconciliation

Example account · 140 wearers · 3-yr lookback

Illustrative
  • §2.1Work pant, industrial cotton (Class 4)

    allowed $0.4820/wk · billed $0.6350/wk · 280 units · 156 wks

    +$6,683.04
  • §2.2Automatic loss replacement

    14 wearers · $4,212.60 charged vs $986.40 expected

    +$3,226.20
  • §2.3Environmental / energy surcharge

    billed 6.2% vs 3.0% contractual cap · avg invoice $2,940 · 96 wks

    +$9,031.68
  • §2.1Work shirt, long sleeve (Class 2)

    allowed $0.4410/wk · billed $0.5275/wk · 280 units · 156 wks

    +$3,778.32
  • §2.4Inventory rent on separated wearers

    23 garments · avg $1.06/wk · avg 71 wks past separation

    +$1,730.98

Potential overcharges identified

—Completed illustrative example: $24,450.22 in potential overcharges identified across five findings.

Worked example of the audit methodology on a representative account. Not a projection of your result. Identified variances are potential contractual discrepancies for you to dispute — not guaranteed credits.

Four places your uniform rental invoice quietly stops matching your contract

Uniform rental billing is not one number — it is fifty moving variables, and the drift compounds every week. Whether your supplier is Cintas, UniFirst, Vestis, or Alsco, every one of them is checkable against the agreement you signed.

Rate increases above what your contract allows

Your agreement caps annual rate increases. We rebuild the allowed rate for every garment class from your signed base rate forward, then compare it line-by-line against what you were actually billed.

Check 1 of 4

Automatic loss & damage replacement

Lost-garment charges are billed automatically at replacement value. We score each wearer's loss frequency against the expected baseline and flag the accounts charging far beyond statistical norm.

Check 2 of 4

Uncapped environmental & energy surcharges

Surcharges compound quietly as a percentage of a growing invoice. We test each period's surcharge against the cap your contract actually specifies — where one is specified at all.

Check 3 of 4

Ghost inventory on inactive wearers

Departed employees keep renting garments. We reconcile billed inventory against your justified headcount and change-of-wearer history to surface weekly rent on garments nobody wears.

Check 4 of 4

In one sentence: a UniformProof audit checks four overcharge patterns — base-rate increases above the contract's escalation cap (the limit on annual increases), automatic loss-and-damage replacement charges above statistical baseline, environmental and energy surcharges above the contractual cap, and ghost inventory, weekly rent billed for employees who have left.

This is not hypothetical

Billing disputes like this reach federal court. In April 2025, a federal court granted final approval to a class-action settlement providing up to $45 million in cash payments in City of Laurel, Mississippi v. Cintas Corp. No. 2. The suit alleged Cintas billed public agencies more than their agreements authorized. Cintas denied the allegations and settled with no finding of wrongdoing. That class covered public agencies on cooperative-purchasing agreements — not private accounts like yours — but the billing gap it describes is exactly what a line-by-line audit checks your invoices for.

Keep your savings. Pay a flat fee, not half of everything we find.

Uniform contract auditing has always been sold on contingency — auditors commonly keep around half of what they find, often for 12–60 months. UniformProof charges a flat $500, once, and you keep 100% of any savings.

What you pay

Contingency:A share of everything found — commonly around half

UniformProof:A flat $500, once

How long they collect

Contingency:Often 12–60 months of your realized savings

UniformProof:Never — there is nothing to collect

On the illustrative $24,450 example at the top of this page

Contingency:You keep roughly $12,225

UniformProof:You keep $23,950

Engagement required

Contingency:A multi-year contingency agreement

UniformProof:None. Buy one audit and walk away

Contact with your supplier

Contingency:They negotiate as your agent

UniformProof:We never contact them. You control the conversation

Three steps. About twenty minutes of your time.

The only work on your side is finding the paperwork. We do the rest.

  1. 01

    Pay the flat $500 fee

    One-time, card, through Stripe. No subscription is created and nothing auto-renews. You get your secure upload portal the moment payment clears.

  2. 02

    Upload your contract and invoices

    Your signed service agreement plus 4–8 weeks of recent invoices — the same records a contingency auditor asks for. Encrypted, private, and never shared with your supplier.

  3. 03

    Get your dispute memo in 7 days

    Your dispute memo: every overcharge itemized with the contract clause and invoice line that proves it, plus a plain-English summary written so you can send it to your account rep as-is. You decide what to dispute and what to leave.

Audit Fee Guarantee

If our forensic audit does not uncover at least $1,500 in verifiable contractual billing discrepancies and rate drift across your uploaded records, we refund your $500 audit fee in full.

We are betting our fee on the audit, not your money on our findings.

Who reads your contract

UniformProof is a one-person operation run by its founder — I'm Evan, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. I built the reconciliation methodology and I personally review every audit before it ships. You are not uploading your contract to a faceless portal — you can email me directly at support@uniformproof.com, and I'm the one who answers.

One audit. One price. No percentage of anything.

One Complete Audit

$500one time

7-day turnaround · no subscription · no auto-renewal

On the illustrative finding above, a typical 50% contingency split would cost $12,225. This costs $500 — once.

  • Full reconciliation of your signed contract against every uploaded invoice
  • Base rate drift analysis for every garment class on your account
  • Loss & damage replacement anomaly scoring, wearer by wearer
  • Environmental, energy, and service surcharge cap testing
  • Ghost inventory reconciliation against your active headcount
  • An itemized dispute memo — every finding cited to the contract clause and invoice line, written to send to your rep as-is

Audit Fee Guarantee — how it's judged

“Verifiable” means we can point to the exact clause in your signed agreement and the exact invoice line it contradicts — every finding cites both. Below $1,500, your $500 goes back to your original payment method within 10 business days. Full guarantee terms.

100% Fee-Back Guarantee

You will need your signed service agreement and 4–8 weeks of recent invoices.

Documents go to an encrypted private store, wearer names are replaced with codes, and everything is deleted 90 days after delivery — or immediately on request. How we handle documents.

Straight answers

About the audit

What is UniformProof?

UniformProof is a flat-fee forensic audit of uniform rental contracts and invoices from Cintas, UniFirst, Vestis (formerly Aramark), and Alsco. The audit costs $500 one time, takes 7 days from a complete document upload, and delivers an itemized Dispute Credit Log you can send to your supplier. UniformProof is independent and takes no percentage of anything it finds.

Will you contact my uniform supplier?

No — never. UniformProof is not a negotiating agent and does not represent you to your supplier. We hand you the findings; you decide what to send, to whom, and when. Your route service is not disrupted and your rep does not learn you ran an audit unless you tell them.

Do you guarantee I will get money back?

No, and be skeptical of anyone who does. Whether your supplier issues a credit is entirely their decision and outside our control. What we guarantee is our own work: if we do not identify at least $1,500 in verifiable contractual billing discrepancies, you pay nothing.

Is this a subscription?

No. This is a single $500 charge for one audit. Nothing recurs, nothing auto-renews, and no card is kept on file for future billing.

Can I ask a question before paying?

Yes. Email support@uniformproof.com with anything — whether your supplier is covered, whether your document set is enough, how the guarantee works. A human answers, typically within one business day.

Who decides whether you found $1,500?

The standard is written down, not discretionary: a finding counts as verifiable only when it traces to a specific clause in your signed agreement and a specific line on an invoice you supplied — and every finding in your memo cites both, so you can check each one yourself. Below $1,500, the $500 refund goes to your original payment method within 10 business days. The full guarantee terms are in our Terms of Service.

What exactly do I need to upload?

Your signed service agreement — including any pricing sheets, addenda, or renewal riders — plus at least 4 weeks of recent invoices. More invoice history produces a stronger audit. If you are missing something, upload what you have and we will tell you whether it is enough before the clock starts.

What if the audit takes longer than 7 days?

The 7-day clock starts when your document set is complete, not when you pay. If your upload is missing something material we will tell you within one business day. If we are late for any reason of our own, we refund the $500.

Which suppliers do you cover?

Cintas, UniFirst, Vestis (formerly Aramark), and Alsco. These four use stable, well-documented contract and invoice formats, which is exactly what makes a rigorous line-by-line audit possible. If you are with a regional supplier, contact us before purchasing.

How do you handle my employee data?

Invoices list wearer names. Uploads go to an encrypted private store that is never publicly accessible, and we replace wearer names with codes by default — the loss-rate math needs counts, not names. You can request export or deletion of your entire document set at any time.

Is this legal advice?

No. UniformProof produces mathematical reconciliations and decision-support documents. We are not a law firm, not your attorney, and not a certified public accountant. Nothing we deliver is a legal opinion or an accounting attestation. For contract termination or litigation questions, talk to your own counsel.

About your uniform contract

Is my uniform supplier allowed to raise prices mid-contract?

It depends entirely on what you signed. Some negotiated agreements cap annual increases at CPI or a stated percentage. Most standard small-business contracts instead let the supplier raise prices on written notice — sometimes notice “in the form of an invoice” — with a short window, often around ten days, for you to object in writing. Very few owners catch that window. The audit reconstructs the maximum rate your contract actually permits, class by class, and shows you exactly where billing exceeded it.

What is the “environmental charge” or “service charge” on my invoice?

Suppliers describe these as covering energy, fuel, environmental compliance, and other operating costs. Whether they are capped, fixed, or freely adjustable depends on your specific agreement — and on many standard small-business contracts they are adjustable on notice. Because they are billed as a percentage of a growing invoice, they compound quietly. We test every period's surcharge against whatever your contract actually specifies, and flag fee-on-fee compounding.

My headcount went down but my bill didn't. Is that normal?

It is common, and it is one of the four things we audit. Garments assigned to departed employees typically keep billing weekly rent until they are formally returned or bought back at replacement value, and minimum-charge clauses can lock in a floor even after you shrink service. We reconcile the inventory you are billed for against the headcount that justifies it and put a weekly dollar figure on the gap.

Can the audit help with cancellation or the buyout penalty (liquidated damages)?

The audit is not a cancellation service, and whether or how to exit a contract is a question for you and your own attorney — we will not advise on it. What the audit gives you is the accurate arithmetic: a line-item reconciliation of what you were billed versus what your signed terms permit. One fact worth knowing: liquidated-damages formulas in this industry are typically calculated from your average weekly invoice, so knowing your contract-compliant number — rather than your drifted one — matters whatever you decide to do.

What does the Cintas–UniFirst merger mean for my contract?

Cintas agreed in March 2026 to acquire UniFirst; the deal is under FTC antitrust review with a targeted close in late 2026. Nobody — including us — can tell you today what the combined company will do with pricing or service. What we can tell you is that supplier transitions historically bring new invoice formats, new item codes, and pushes to sign new paperwork at renewal, and that your signed agreement remains the reference for all of it. An audit today freezes that baseline in writing before anything changes.

Those charges have been compounding for years. The audit takes a week.

Find out what your uniform supplier has actually been billing you — and get it in writing, line by line.

100% Fee-Back Guarantee

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