Partnership, properly defined
Partnership goes beyond a contract.
The founding team at Blackstone& has built and scaled an award-winning technology consultancy before. That experience taught us something simple but often overlooked: the greatest impact and value is created when you stop optimising for contracts and start acting as a genuine partner.
Four principles we do not trade away.
Do the basics brilliantly.
Most transformation failures aren't caused by technology. They're caused by misaligned objectives, poor process, and skipped foundations. We fix the fundamentals first.
Choose the right thing over the profitable thing.
Partnership is a long term investment. That means giving the advice the customer needs, not the advice that will make us more profit.
Be human, despite the tech.
We leverage AI, cloud, and modern engineering. But we know that transformation is ultimately a people challenge. The intangible, undefined nuances of change are what we navigate best.
Give our customers freedom.
Always reduce dependencies, constraints and lock-ins for our customers. Partnership is a choice.
Kieran Blackstone
Founder & Managing Director
Kieran is a founder, operator, and investor with deep experience building and scaling technology businesses.
He built his first business from two people and zero revenue into a 240-person, £40m+ turnover award-winning consultancy over nearly a decade — featuring twice in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 and the FT1000, achieving strategic supplier status with UK central government bodies including HMRC, and culminating in a successful equity exit. Along the way, Kieran personally contributed over £100m in sales.
Blackstone& was founded to bring that experience to clients — focused on long-term partnership, delivery quality, and commercial agility, and bringing together the best of the people and expertise Kieran has worked with throughout his career.
Alongside Blackstone&, Kieran owns and runs a Data & AI consultancy in the UAE, is an angel investor in UK technology companies, and acts as an advisor to scale-up SMEs navigating growth, complexity, and change.
"When the focus shifts to outcomes rather than transactions, everything else follows. Teams rally behind a shared mission. Clients trust you with harder problems and bigger opportunities. Delivery improves, relationships deepen, and scale becomes a by-product rather than the objective."
Kieran Blackstone
The culture we’re building.
Our principles are how we work with clients. These are the four things we select for, reward, and try to be with each other. Where all four meet is us.
01Be curious.
We learn new things on purpose and challenge the way it has always been done. The next good question usually beats the last good answer.
02Be bold.
Take the risk. Speak up. Go out on a limb. The safe answer is rarely the one that moves things forward.
03Be humble.
Every day is a school day. The world moves fast, so we stay ready to learn, and ready to be wrong. No egos, no divas.
04Be accountable.
Pick up the problem in front of you and carry it to the finish. Own the outcome, not just the task. No passengers.
Join the team
We're building a team of exceptional people who share our values in London & the UAE. Interested?