Who We Are

Strategy work
for the board cycle.

Black Rock Capital helps Series A–B SaaS CEOs turn initiative overload into a board-ready product strategy in 8 weeks. Every engagement is led by Kostantin Stambolov and designed to leave the organisation with explicit bets, a stop list, decision rights, and no operational dependency.

Principal & Founder
Kostantin
Stambolov
Product Strategy & Leadership
Sofia, Bulgaria · Remote
Operating since 2020

Black Rock Capital is led by Kostantin Stambolov — a product strategy leader with over a decade operating inside growth-stage SaaS and mobile companies across Europe. The primary engagement is a Board-Ready Strategy Reset: a time-bound intervention for CEOs who need to reduce initiative overload, reconnect product direction to revenue, and walk into the next board meeting with a clearer strategic narrative.

"The roadmap exists. Nobody disagrees with it. But ask each leader independently what the company is betting on — and you get five different answers."

That observation is the foundation of Black Rock Capital. Not a methodology borrowed from a framework. A pattern seen repeatedly, from the inside, across companies at different stages and in different markets.

Kostantin has led product teams ranging from 6 to 50 people at Experian (global enterprise, 7 regions, $5M portfolio migrations), MobiSystems (P&L ownership across 5 consumer products, $1.5M ad spend, direct partnerships with Apple and Google), Juicer (B2B SaaS, direct revenue involvement — demos, contract negotiation, unblocking stalled enterprise deals), and Trading 212 (early-growth fintech, now €30B+ in client assets).

The through-line across all of it: every company that hit a ceiling hit it at the same place. Not at execution. At the point where strategy stopped being explicit, the initiative list kept growing, and everyone started filling the gap with their own version.

Black Rock Capital exists to fix that before the next board cycle — in a defined time window, with a clean exit, and no dependency created.

Track Record

A decade of operating
from the inside.

Experian
2021 – 2023 · Global
Global Product Manager · Decision Analytics & AI
Led migration of a $5M enterprise client portfolio from on-premise to cloud BI across banks, telecoms, and government organisations in 7 global regions. Directed a cross-functional team of 50 including 5 product owners. Embedded AI and ML models into Experian's enterprise decision workflows globally.
Juicer
2023 – 2025 · Remote
Head of Product
Led product strategy and team at a B2B SaaS platform. Restructured the roadmap around core revenue drivers and rebuilt alignment between product and commercial. Actively involved in revenue — ran customer demos, negotiated B2B contracts, and rewrote commercial terms to unblock stalled enterprise deals.
MobiSystems
2015 – 2020 · Sofia
Head of Product Growth & Marketing Director
Built a 10-person product growth team from scratch with full P&L responsibility across iOS, Android, Windows, and web. Managed $1.5M annual ad spend. Ran monetisation strategy across 5 products. Partnered directly with Apple and Google on distribution. Led a cross-functional team of 50 to deliver OfficeSuite — 10x growth in user base and revenue on iOS.
Trading 212
2012 – 2015 · Sofia
Product & Technology Leadership
Product and technology delivery during Trading 212's early growth phase — now one of Europe's leading investment platforms with €30B+ in client assets and 4.5M users. Led a team of 10 developers to rebuild the core platform. Delivered campaigns and features reaching 1M+ customers in a regulated fintech environment.
Economedia
2008 – 2012 · Sofia
Chief Design Officer · Web & Mobile
Bulgaria's largest business media publisher — home to Capital and Dnevnik, reaching 1.5M monthly readers. Led the transition from print to digital. Designed and launched the company's first web products and mobile applications — among the earliest in the Bulgarian media industry. Bulgarian Web Awards 2011, 2012.
How This Works

Four things that
don't change across
every Strategy Reset.

01
Diagnostic before recommendations.
No proposals before the full picture is clear. Every engagement starts with structured interviews across the leadership team — not just the CEO. Strategy breaks at the intersection of people, goals, and structure. All three need to be mapped before anything is recommended.
02
The CEO is the client. Always.
BRC does not work through the VP Product or the COO. Every engagement is with the founder or CEO directly. Strategic decisions cannot be made by proxy, and this work requires the person with actual authority in the room.
03
Trade-offs, not frameworks.
The output of every engagement is not a new framework or a methodology document. It is a set of explicit choices: what gets invested in, what gets cut, who owns what. Choices that the leadership team has committed to — not just discussed.
04
Clean exit is the only measure of success.
Every engagement ends with a handover. Everything documented, everything transferred. The organisation operates without BRC from day one after exit. If the client needs ongoing advisory to maintain the outcome — the engagement has not succeeded.
Next Step

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

No pitch. No proposal. A direct conversation to assess whether a Strategy Reset fits the moment.

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