Our mission is to give independent businesses access to enterprise level tools to compete with the big guys

Our Story

Most fitness studio software sucks. It's clunky, expensive, and built by people who've never run a class or managed memberships. We're Chris and Kerry, and we got tired of watching good studios fail because of bad technology.

Chris: From Sales Floors to Studio Floors

Chris spent years at HubSpot selling to small businesses, including tons of fitness studios. Same story every time: great instructors, loyal members, terrible booking systems that made everything harder than it needed to be.

Chris is also a registered yoga teacher, trains BJJ, and has completed multiple Ironman races. He's been on both sides—the frustrated member dealing with broken booking links, and the instructor trying to manage classes while the system crashes.

After helping build two successful startups (Vendr raised $216M, Visor raised $3M), Chris knew exactly what kind of technology could solve these problems. The fitness industry just never got it.

Kerry: Ultramarathons and Ultra-Efficient Code

Kerry builds enterprise software by day and runs 50+ mile races for fun. He's the guy who can architect systems that handle millions of users, then go and crush a 3 hour bike trainer ride.

At Microsoft, Kerry led engineering teams building Azure portal features. At Lumeris, he architected cloud platforms for healthcare companies. But his favorite gym still had a booking system from 2010 that crashed every time they launched a new program.

Kerry started coding as a kid and believes technology should make hard things easy, not make easy things impossible.

The Problem We're Solving

Fitness studios are competing against Peloton's app experience and ClassPass's booking flow, but they're stuck with booking software that looks like it was designed by accountants in 1999.

Meanwhile, studios that should be thriving are spending 20+ hours a week on administrative bullshit instead of teaching and growing their business.

What We Built

Zipper is end-to-end booking and growth software built specifically for fitness and wellness studios. Professional websites, automated scheduling, payment processing, member management, and marketing tools that actually work together.

We didn't take generic business software and slap "fitness" on it. We built this from scratch for how studios actually operate.

Real results from real studios:

• The Lab BJJ: 4,967% ROI in 3 months, 50+ new leads, 35+ new members
• CS Fit Pilates: 10x increase in website traffic, 100+ leads in 3 months, 10 hrs of admin time saved per week

Why We're Different

We actually train at gyms and studios. We know what it's like when the booking system crashes during peak hours, when payment processing fails, when your website looks terrible compared to the corporate chain down the street.

Chris brings the business side—he's sold to hundreds of fitness businesses and understands what actually drives growth and retention.

Kerry brings the technical side—he can build systems that scale and don't break when you need them most.

The Bottom Line

Good studios shouldn't fail because of bad software. If you're changing lives through fitness, you deserve technology that helps you succeed, not systems that hold you back.

Join us on our mission to help fitness and wellness businesses compete with the big guys. Get a demo here.