New post: Value, Not Hours
Part 2 of the Time and Tokens series - what to charge when the project that took six months now takes two weeks.
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Christopher Marr
By day I build - a product studio and a foundation. In the margins I write fiction about the choices that remake us. This is home base for all of it: the two organizations I pour myself into, and the books and essays that come out the other side.
What's new
Recent news
New post: Time and Tokens
Part 1 of a three-part series - AI collapsed the cost of building software, and what that does to buy-versus-build.
New post: Why I Chose to Start a Nonprofit
The three reasons behind Gairm's nonprofit structure - stakeholders, transparency, and trust.
What I'm building
A studio and a foundation
For-profit
txp-labs
A product studio building software for real-world problems - from idea to design to launch.
Learn more about txp-labs → Non-profitGairm
Gairm - a calling. A non-profit turning overlooked talent - veterans and people with significant disabilities - into skilled careers.
Learn more about Gairm →Foldpair Saga · 1Forge Lightning
Coming soon · Foldpair Saga
Forge Lightning
Book One of the Foldpair Saga
A sister who calls down lightning, a brother who feels her at the edge of his mind, and a Council that's spent forty years learning to break a foldpair like theirs.
From the desk
Recent writing
Value, Not Hours: Pricing Services When the Work Takes Two Weeks
AI compressed a six-month, two-million-dollar project into two weeks, and every old way of pricing it now screams at somebody. T&M is dead twice over - the escape is outcome-based pricing done with discipline, so you finally get paid for judgment.
Time and Tokens: When Software Stops Being Something You Buy
Buying software and bending your process to fit it was the right answer for decades. AI collapsed the cost of building - but the team that keeps bespoke software running still costs what it always did.
Why I Chose to Start a Nonprofit
The three reasons I structured Gairm as a nonprofit - stakeholders, transparency, and trust - and the one thread underneath all three: servant leadership.
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