Capital
Investment Pulse™
Eight diligence dimensions from Screen to Exit. One readiness view for PE, raise and exit: narrative, gaps and owners the committee can run. Live public demo.
Keston Pulse™ · For PE · For the Board
Capital readiness. Business performance. One executive picture.
Investment Pulse™ for Screen to Exit. Business Pulse™ for the operating picture leadership runs between meetings. Senior Advisory when judgement must enter the room.
What the room leaves withA secure portal view · Published priorities and a 90-day agenda · Named owners · Optional senior challenge
Keston Pulse Check™
See your score in five minutes.
Twenty questions. An indicative read across Business, Technology, Cyber and AI. The boards above are samples. This score is yours. Leave your details and the result comes through as a lead. It is a public diagnostic, not a formal Pulse assessment.
Start the Pulse Check
Around five minutes · Instant score · Your details stay with Keston
The room
IC packs and Board packs pile up. The decision still waits.
Diligence arrives as annexes. The business arrives as specialist reports. Capital and leadership both need one picture: what is performing, where value is at risk, and what needs an owner before the next meeting.
- 01Is this investment ready for the committee, or still a stack of packs?
- 02What is performing in the business, and what is quietly deteriorating?
- 03Where are risk and value, with a name against the next move?
Two leads · One firm
Sell the story. Run the business. Decide in the room.
Built for Chairs, Investment Committees and leadership teams who cannot afford another pack. Pulse keeps the picture live. Advisory closes when judgement must enter.
Operate
Business Pulse™
Strategy, performance, financial, operations and people: the Board picture between meetings. Performance, risk and value with a 90-day agenda. Foundation lens, labelled honestly.
Decide
Executive Advisory
Senior counsel in the room. Challenge the pack, and the Pulse picture itself, so leadership leaves with owners, timing and a path they can run.
Specialist depth
When the Board question is Technology, Cyber or AI.
Specialist lenses sit under the same executive standard. They deepen the picture. They do not replace Investment Pulse or Business Pulse on the homepage.
Technology
Technology Pulse™
Six domains. One Board View. Strategy through Leadership, published when you say so. Live in the client portal.
Cyber
Cyber Pulse™
Material residual exposure with a named owner. Board language, not a control catalogue or a SIEM export.
AI
AI Pulse™
Adoption, governance and decision rights. Not ValarIQ. No invented financial return.
Portfolio
Portfolio Pulse™
Where to intervene across companies you are authorised to see. Membership is explicit. Other clients stay invisible.
In the room
How strategic work actually shows up.
Anonymised engagement patterns from PE, portfolio Boards and raise or exit rooms. No logo wall. No invented named clients.
Private equity · Pre-IC
From annex stack to one readiness view
Commercial, cyber and people arrived as separate packs. Investment Pulse put thesis, risk and owners on one page before committee.
Portfolio Board
From six priorities to two the room owned
Technology, cyber and AI competed for airtime. The Board left with a published view and a 90-day agenda with names.
Raise / exit
Challenge in the room, picture kept live
Advisory pressed the assumptions. Pulse stayed in the portal after the meeting so leadership could reopen the same story.
Trust
Discipline over theatre.
Vendor-neutral. Evidence-backed where captured. Empty cells stay empty. Certificates are not held. The standards investment rooms ask about are on the Trust page.
Secure portalYour Board or deal team reopens the same picture between meetings.
Publish gateClients see published views only. Drafts stay with Keston.
Honest empty cellsIf it is not evidenced, it stays blank. No invented automation.
Human closeAdvisory when judgement must enter the room.
The firm
Independent. Senior-led. Board language.
Founded by Ryan Dercksen in London. Platform plus judgement. We are not a Big 4 substitute and not a tool vendor.
Most rooms do not need more information. They need to see what actually matters.
How an engagement starts
See the product. Confirm fit. Publish with discipline.
Built for senior rooms, not self-serve theatre. Watch the public walkthrough, agree the lead in twenty minutes, then evidence in and drafts private until you publish.
- 01 · SeePublic Investment Pulse walkthrough. No login.
- 02 · FitWe say Pulse, Advisory, or both, and what does not fit.
- 03 · PublishEvidence in, drafts private, portal live when you approve.
Insights
How boards lose the plot, and how to get it back.
Short essays on the questions Pulse is built to answer. The writing is public. The scoring method is not.
SIGNAL
Exposure vs opportunity: risk pressure and value unlock
Boards need both signals on the table (where harm could crystallise, and where the next unlock sits), not a single green/red story.
LEADERSHIP
Independent challenge without theatre
The best advisory work creates better decisions, not dependency, complexity or performative transformation.
BOARD
Ask the Board: questions that change the room
The right Board question turns a reporting session into a decision. Here is how Pulse frames the conversation script.
Next step
Ready when the room is.
Tell us what the Board or Investment Committee needs to see. We will say quickly whether Pulse, Advisory, or both fit, and what does not.