Razored is the operating system for grooming and beauty businesses — born inside a real franchise, built for the chair, owned by the people who use it.
The grooming and beauty industry generates over $130 billion a year in the U.S. alone. Most shops run on five disconnected apps, an Excel sheet, and a group chat.
Every product we tried solved a slice. None of them ran a real shop. None of them came from people who’d ever stood behind a chair on a Saturday afternoon.
So we started building Razored alongside No Grease — a 15-shop barbershop franchise spanning six cities (Charlotte, Columbia, Lawrenceville, Hanover, Buford, and Houston), founded by operators with 40+ years in the industry. They’re not just a customer. They’re the reason the platform exists, and they hold equity in Razored to keep us aligned.
We’re not a tech company that decided to chase a vertical. We’re an operator-led platform that happens to be a tech company. The difference shows up in every screen.
U.S. grooming & beauty industry, annually.
Disconnected tools the average shop runs on.
Operating system Razored is replacing them with.
Pre-launch, on purpose. We’d rather get it right with our own shops than ship to thousands of operators on a half-built platform.
Incorporated in partnership with No Grease, with the operational thesis that grooming software needed to be built from inside the industry, not pitched at it.
Built the foundations — front desk, calendar, Razored Pay, provider portal, and the multi-location data model — using No Grease’s operational complexity as the spec.
Razored is live in select No Grease locations across Charlotte and Houston, with rollout continuing into Columbia, Lawrenceville, Hanover, and Buford. Barbers Inc has joined as an external design partner from Charleston, SC. The mobile client app and multi-location dashboard are in active development.
Opening to additional design-partner operators as the platform stabilizes. No public launch date yet — we’re letting product readiness drive timing, not the calendar.
Six operating principles that shape what we build, what we don’t, and how we talk about it.
Every feature ships with an operator’s name on it. We don’t guess what shops need. We ask, then build, then put it on a real floor before anyone else sees it.
Glue is where shops lose money. Razored replaces the integrations with a single ledger, a single calendar, and a single source of truth. Less surface area, fewer ways to bleed.
Each shop operates as an independent unit. Calendar, waitlist, POS — all stay shop-scoped. Only reporting and brand management aggregate. This is how multi-location actually works in practice.
Most shop appointments are walk-in or admin-added. We build for the way real shops fill chairs — not the way booking apps assume they do.
Public roadmap. Honest about what’s shipped, what’s in development, and what’s still on paper. No marketing-led launches. No claiming features we don’t have.
Razored FCU exists because operators have been shut out of credit and capital. We’re chartering a credit union purpose-built for grooming and beauty — but we’re not selling it as a feature today. It’s a long road, and we’ll talk about it honestly along the way. Visit Razored FCU →
Headquartered in Charlotte, with 15 anchor shops across six No Grease cities and an external design partner in Charleston. The platform is shaped by the operational realities of seven markets — not by assumptions made in one.
Where Razored is incorporated, where the engineering team is based, and where No Grease is headquartered. Multiple shops here run on the platform every day — the daily operational pressure-testing that shapes every release.
Active No Grease deployment market. Multiple locations here validate that the platform works across markets — not just inside the city it was built in.
No Grease shops in rollout.
No Grease shops in rollout.
No Grease shops in rollout.
No Grease shops in rollout.
It would be easy to put fabricated revenue numbers, made-up customer logos, and inflated language on this page. A lot of early-stage companies do. We’ve decided not to.
Razored is a real platform, with real partners, building toward real launch. We have a 15-shop anchor franchise, an external design partner, two cities of active deployment, a public roadmap, and a clear point of view on what software for this industry should look like. That’s what we have.
If you’re an operator who’s tired of generic salon software pretending to understand the floor, talk to us. We’re picking the next cohort of design partners now.
When this page lists 100 customers, every one of them will be real. When it shows revenue numbers, every dollar will be ours. Until then, this is what’s true. — The founders