Founding Trust Programme
Shape the platform. Keep the discount.
A limited number of trusts join as founding partners: 20% off any tier for the first three years, priority support and guided migration — in exchange for running KeystoneOps for real and telling us, bluntly, where it falls short. Early trusts carry more risk on a new vendor; the programme is how we pay for that honestly.
What you get
The founding side of the deal.
20% off for three years
On any tier, either path — self-hosted or managed. Locked in when you join, applied from your first invoice.
A real say in the roadmap
Founding trusts sit closest to the build. What you need next quarter genuinely shapes what gets built next quarter — that's the point of the programme.
Priority support
A direct line to the people who wrote the code, not a ticket queue. Same-day responses during UK school hours.
Migration, shoulder to shoulder
We run your first dry-run imports with you — FreshService, Every, Civica, spreadsheets — until your history lands clean.
What we ask
Ours — said up front.
Run it for real
The programme only works if the platform is doing your actual day-to-day — not sitting in a pilot sandbox.
Tell us where it hurts
A regular feedback rhythm — a call each half-term and honesty in between. Bugs, gaps, workflow friction: we want the unvarnished version.
Be referenceable — once it's earned
When (and only when) you're happy, we'll ask for a quote, a logo, or a reference call for a trust like yours. Never before.
No logo walls until they're real — that's a promise the rest of this site already makes.
How it works
Four steps, none of them a webinar.
1
Apply
The contact form, with "Founding Trust Programme" as your interest. Tell us your size and your current stack.
2
A real call
Half an hour with the founder — your setup, what you'd replace first, whether the fit is honest. No deck.
3
Private eval
A 7-day instance on your academy structure, your branding, populated for your team to break.
4
Decide
If it's a yes, the discount locks and migration planning starts. If it's a no, you keep the eval findings — no hard feelings.
The places are limited on purpose.
Founding trusts get real attention from a small team — that only works at a small number. If the fit isn't right we'll say so early, and you'll still keep everything you learned from the eval.