See it
Keston Pulse
Capital readiness and business performance in one portal. Evidence-backed. Board-ready. Investment and Business lead, with specialist depth when required.
About Keston
See clearly. Decide. Improve. Create value.
One commercial business: Pulse, Advisory, and a restrained Ventures home for what we build. Vendor-neutral. Senior-led. Board language for Chairs, Investment Committees and leadership teams.
- PulseThe picture
- AdvisoryThe judgement
- VenturesWhat we build, restrained
What we deliver
Portal first. Judgement when required.
Pulse is a secure client portal: scores, signals, priorities and a 90-day agenda, published when you say so. Advisory is senior challenge in the room that uses that same picture. You are not buying another PDF graveyard or a self-serve tool alone.
Improve it
Keston Advisory
Human expertise and intervention. We do not stop at the dashboard. Owners and timing leave with the room.
Build it
Keston Ventures
Selected products we build. Not a conglomerate story. Restrained on purpose.
Most rooms do not need more information. They need to see what actually matters.
Who leads the work
Independent. Senior-led. Institutional.
Founded by Ryan Dercksen in London, drawing on executive technology, security and transformation experience. The work is institutional: a platform plus senior judgement, not a personality brand with a dashboard.
We sit with Private Equity, Boards and leadership teams who need capital readiness and business performance in one executive language, without Big 4 theatre or tool-vendor feature lists.
Senior Advisory is a person in the room: Ryan, challenging the pack and the Pulse picture. It is not a bench of unnamed consultants, and not a personality brand with a dashboard beside it.
What you can expect
- A living portalPublished Board and readiness views your team can reopen between meetings.
- Modest claimsEmpty cells stay empty. Examples are anonymised engagement patterns.
- Vendor-neutralNo stack to push. Judgement when the room needs it.
- Clear next stepTwenty minutes to say whether Pulse, Advisory, or both fit.
How the work runs
A short path. A published picture.
01
See the shape
Watch the public Investment Pulse walkthrough, or take the five-minute Pulse Check. Neither is a client assessment.
02
Twenty minutes
We say whether Investment Pulse, Business Pulse, Advisory, or a specialist lens fits, and what does not.
03
Evidence, then publish
We work from evidence the organisation already holds. The portal shows the published view. Drafts stay with Keston until you say otherwise.
Why Keston
One picture, then judgement.
Most rooms already have the packs. They do not have one picture capital and leadership can share, or a senior challenge of that picture before the meeting commits. Pulse keeps the picture. Advisory enters when judgement has to.
What this is not
- Not a Big 4 substituteNo army, no framework tour, no theatre.
- Not a tool vendorNo stack to sell. Vendor-neutral on purpose.
- Not a maturity surveyThe Pulse Check is a public lead hook. A client Pulse is evidence, owners and a published view.
- Not ValarIQAI Pulse is the Board view. ValarIQ is a separate control product.
Next
Ready when the room is.
Tell us what the Board or Investment Committee needs to see.