About KeystoneOps
Built by a Head of IT in a UK MAT.
KeystoneOps was started by a Head of IT working in a UK multi-academy trust who'd evaluated every commercially-available product on the market and concluded that none of them covered enough of the trust's day-to-day work without a six-figure annual SaaS bill. So they started building one — first as a side project, now as a proper product, opening up to other trusts that hit the same gap.
Why we built it
A trust isn't an enterprise.
Every commercial ITSM, GRC, asset management, and SCR product evaluated was either built for a 5,000-employee enterprise (ServiceNow), a single-school standalone (most school SaaS), or a heritage LA-shaped operation (Civica). None of them spoke the language of a trust running 5–20 academies with shared central services and academy-local autonomy.
So we built the thing that didn't exist. Self-hosted, or fully managed by us — your choice, depending on whether you have the infrastructure and the appetite to run it yourself. Perpetual licence by design — because per-seat pricing penalises growth and trusts don't budget that way. MAT-shaped by default — because Academy / DSL / KCSIE / Ofsted are first-class concepts, not custom field labels.
Two years in, we have eight products, 580 backend tests, 86 browser tests, and a platform running real day-to-day operations. We're now opening it up to the other trusts who've told us the gap is the same.
Position
Built in the UK. Owned by trusts. Stays that way.
We're a UK-registered company with no external investors and no plans to take any. Trusts who buy a perpetual licence keep that licence — including any future change of ownership. We're betting the business on long-term relationships, not exit-driven growth.
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Most early conversations happen over email — it suits the procurement pace and means you can forward threads to colleagues without rewriting them. Use the contact form for a structured intro, or email us directly: hello@keystoneops.education.
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