Where this is going

I’m Jamie, and this is the honest version. What works today, what I’m building next, and what I will never build. It is free while we get it right, so you should know what you are actually signing up to.

Working today

Weekly logging — seven numbers, about a minute
Chair utilisation — how full your week actually was
Revenue per hour and per appointment
What your empty appointments cost, weekly and over a year
The shop's cut — rent or commission, so you see what you keep
Tips, tracked separately so they never distort your pricing
Mates' rates — the gap between your list price and what you actually average
Trends by week and by month, with a 46-week income projection
What-if scenarios for a price change or filling more gaps
Free calculators, no sign-up needed

What I am building next

Export and backup — your numbers as a file you keep. This is next, because right now everything lives on your phone and nowhere else. That keeps it private and it also means I cannot get it back for you if the phone goes in the sink.
A Sunday summary — what changed, your quietest day, and one thing worth doing about it. I want something that makes me look forward to the week rather than a telling-off about the last one.
An income goal — set what you want to earn and see every week measured against it
Fixed costs — rent, insurance, products entered once, so you see profit rather than takings
A tax pot — you pick the percentage, we do the arithmetic. What you choose to set aside, never a claim about what you owe.

Further out

Service-level pricing — which cuts actually earn their chair time
Monthly summaries you can hand to an accountant
Busy and quiet periods — needs a full year of your weeks before it means anything, and we will not pretend otherwise
Anonymous regional benchmarks — opt in, never a league table, and only once enough barbers are logging for it to be signal rather than noise
Hairdressers, tattoo artists and beauty therapists — the same maths, different words. Barbering first, and properly, before anything else.

Things I will never build

Your clients’ names, numbers or bookings. I do not want them and I will not ask.
Booking or payments. Plenty of companies do that already and take a cut for it. I am not adding to the pile.
League tables, or anything a shop owner could use to rank you by name. Owners will get their own view one day. It will never be a window into yours.
Selling your data. Everyone is always trying to sell barbers something. Not here.

This page changes as things ship. If something here matters to you more than the order I have put it in, tell me. There are few enough of us right now that what founding members ask for is what gets built next. Email hello@knowyourchair.com and it comes to me.

Free while we build it. Log one week and see where you stand.

Know Your Chair logs seven numbers a week and turns them into utilisation, revenue per hour, and what your gaps are costing you — tracked over time instead of worked out once.

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Free while we build it. No card.