About
Jarrett co-founded OneChair after spending years watching the same painful cycle repeat itself in traditional software development: clients waited months for progress, paid hourly with no certainty about the final cost, and received status reports instead of working software. He built OneChair to fix exactly that.
As CEO, Jarrett drives the fixed-price model that defines how OneChair works — no hourly billing, no surprises, no scope creep charges. Every project begins with a clear fixed price and ends with exactly what was agreed. He leads the client relationships and project scoping process, ensuring that requirements are understood completely before a single line of code is written.
His obsession is transparency. Every client gets a dedicated staging URL from day two of their project, where they can watch real progress happen in real time. Not status reports. Not wireframes. Working software, shipping continuously. Jarrett believes this level of visibility should be the baseline expectation in software development, not a differentiator.
On this blog, Jarrett writes about the business side of software development: how to evaluate vendors, how fixed-price models actually work, what non-technical founders need to know before they start building, and how to think about software investment as a business decision rather than a technical one.
Areas of Focus
Product Strategy
Client Relations
Fixed-Price Model
Project Scoping
Startup Advisory
Articles by Jarrett
Business
Why Fixed-Price Software Development Actually Works
The common objection to fixed-price development is that scope always changes. Here is why that argument misunderstands what fixed-price means, and why the model is better for clients at every stage of a project.
Guides
How to Evaluate an MVP Development Company (Checklist)
A practical checklist for evaluating software development partners before you sign anything. What questions to ask, what red flags to watch for, and how to compare proposals that are structured very differently from each other.
Guides
The Non-Technical Founder's Guide to Getting Software Built
What every non-technical founder needs to understand before hiring a developer or development company. How to write a brief, how to validate before you build, how to protect yourself contractually, and how to know when something is done.