Who We Are

Your next board cycle
needs fewer bets.

Black Rock Capital exists for the point where the roadmap is full, the team is busy, and the board still needs a clear answer on what product is doing for revenue.

Principal & Founder
Kostantin
Stambolov
Product Strategy · Remote
Board-Ready Strategy Reset

15 years in product leadership across fintech, media tech, and SaaS – from Series A to 100M+ users. The work is built for CEOs who can feel strategy drifting before the numbers make it undeniable. The roadmap exists. The team is executing. But the bets are not explicit enough, and every function is filling the gap with its own version of the plan.

"The problem is not a lack of work. It is a lack of explicit choices."

The Board-Ready Strategy Reset is designed to force those choices into the open: which 3–4 bets matter, what stops, who owns each decision, and how the story connects to revenue before the next board cycle.

Every engagement is direct with the CEO because the outcome depends on authority, not facilitation. The goal is not a deck, a methodology, or another advisory dependency. The goal is a leadership team that can say what matters, what does not, and why now.

If the company is already aligned, you do not need this. If every planning cycle adds more initiatives than it removes, the reset is cheaper before the board meeting turns defensive.

How This Works

Why the diagnosis
comes before the reset.

01
The reset has to earn its place.
No proposal matters until the drift is visible. The first job is to find whether the leadership team is making the same bets, using the same definitions, and cutting the same work.
02
The CEO is the decision point.
Product strategy drift is not fixed by facilitation alone. The work needs the person who can choose what matters, stop what does not, and hold leaders to the same trade-off.
03
Choices beat frameworks.
The output is not a methodology document. It is a set of explicit choices: what gets invested in, what gets cut, who owns what, and how those choices show up in the board narrative.
04
Clean exit reduces dependency risk.
The point is not to create an advisor-shaped dependency. The point is to leave the leadership team with explicit bets, decision rights, and a plan they can operate without Black Rock Capital.
Next Step

If this resonates – a 30-minute conversation is the right place to start.

No pitch. No proposal. A direct conversation to see whether the drift is real enough to diagnose.

Book the 30-minute Drift Call