Kept

What Kept does

Kept is an independent network of audit and consulting firms headquartered in Moscow, operating across 11 offices in Russia and Belarus with 3,500 professionals. The firm was part of the international KPMG network until 8 June 2022, when it became fully independent under the Kept brand and reorganized into five legal entities (AO Kept plus four operating subsidiaries covering tax/legal, digital products, verification, and general operations).

Kept delivers a full-suit professional services portfolio organized into seven practices: Audit, Consulting, Tax & Legal, Investments and Capital Markets (Deal Advisory), Technology, Kept Engineering, and Kept Private (family office services). Service delivery spans 12 industry verticals, with dedicated sector teams for oil & gas, metals & mining, financial services, automotive, agribusiness, healthcare, infrastructure, real estate, consumer and retail, TMT, transport and logistics, and energy/utilities. The firm is ranked #1 audit organization in Russia by RAEX (2010–2026), largest consulting firm, and top-3 in tax/legal and valuation, supported by ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certifications and inclusion in Federal Treasury and Bank of Russia audit registries.

The technology layer includes proprietary digital products such as the Kept Audit Platform, Tax Monitoring Platform (integrated with the Russian Federal Tax Service), Track & Trace (product marking and traceability), Kept Risk Radar (due diligence automation), Dynamic Discount Platform, and the INSIGHT BI business intelligence platform delivered in partnership with Goodt. Kept also maintains an AI Services practice and a Quantum Technology Center of Expertise. Revenue is generated via project-based professional services engagements priced on scope and complexity, supplemented by digital product and platform monetization, with no disclosed public funding or external ownership.

Name

Kept

Legal name

AO «Кэпт»

Website

https://kept.ru

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Kept is an independent network of audit and consulting firms operating 11 offices across Russia and Belarus with 3,500 professionals, delivering audit, consulting, tax, deal advisory, technology, engineering, and private client services to enterprise clients across 12 industry verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Moscow

HQ country

Russia

HQ region

Europe

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Audit Services: Financial statement audits in accordance with RSBO, IFRS, US GAAP, providing independent verification and assurance.
2. Consulting Services: Strategic and operational consulting including process improvement, risk management, and business transformation.
3. Tax and Legal Advisory: Comprehensive tax and legal consulting services including transfer pricing, tax monitoring, dispute resolution, and international tax planning.
4. Deal Advisory: M&A advisory, business valuation, financing strategy, and transaction support services.
5. Technology Services: Digital transformation, IT consulting, cybersecurity, and proprietary digital product development.
6. Engineering Services: Engineering consulting across asset lifecycle including feasibility studies, design support, and operational optimization.
7. Private Client Services: Services for high-net-worth individuals and family offices including tax planning, immigration support, and investment advisory.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Kept is a network of audit and consulting firms operating in Russia and Belarus that delivers financial statement audits (RSBO, IFRS, US GAAP), strategic and operational consulting, tax and legal advisory, M&A and capital markets advisory (deal advisory), digital transformation and IT consulting, engineering consulting across physical asset lifecycles, and private client services for high-net-worth individuals and family offices. The firm develops proprietary digital products including audit software, tax monitoring, traceability, due diligence and dynamic discounting platforms.

Product overview

Kept operates as a network of audit and consulting firms offering a comprehensive portfolio of professional services organized into distinct practices: Audit, Consulting, Tax & Legal, Deal Advisory (Investments and Capital Markets), Technology, Kept Engineering, and Kept Private. The company develops and offers proprietary digital products including a Tax Monitoring Platform for automated FNS interaction, Track & Trace for product labeling, Kept Risk Radar for due diligence automation, a Dynamic Discount Platform, and an INSIGHT BI platform (via partnership with Goodt). Kept's own software product is used internally for conducting and documenting audits. The service model is organized by practice areas rather than a unified platform architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kept Academy: Knowledge base, methodologies, and practical experience platform for professional development and training programs.
• Kept Engineering
• Kept Private
• Kept Academy
• Kept Chinese Desk

Products and services

• Audit Services Financial statement audits in accordance with Russian accounting standards (RSBO), IFRS, and US GAAP, providing independent verification and assurance to publicly traded companies, financial institutions, and other organizations required to be audited.
• Consulting Services Strategic and operational consulting including process improvement, performance management, operational effectiveness, and business transformation for enterprise clients across industry verticals.
• Tax and Legal Advisory Comprehensive tax and legal consulting services including transfer pricing, tax monitoring, dispute resolution, international tax planning, corporate tax, and legal advisory for clients with regulatory and cross-border needs.
• Deal Advisory M&A advisory, business valuation, financing strategy, and transaction support services covering equity and debt capital markets, due diligence, and investment advisory for corporate transactions.
• Technology Services Digital transformation, IT consulting, cybersecurity, digital forensics and eDiscovery, quantum technology expertise, and proprietary digital product development for enterprise clients.
• Kept Engineering Engineering consulting across the full lifecycle of physical assets including feasibility studies, design support, construction support, and operational optimization for industrial and infrastructure clients.
• Kept Private Private client and family office services for high-net-worth individuals including tax planning, investment advisory, immigration support, and family office structuring.
• Tax Monitoring Platform IT platform enabling automated interaction with the Federal Tax Service of Russia within the tax monitoring regime, providing real-time data exchange and tax compliance automation for large taxpayers.
• Track and Trace IT solution for product labeling, marking, and traceability to support compliance with marking regulations and supply chain visibility for goods-moving enterprises.
• Kept Risk Radar Platform for automating third-party verification and due diligence procedures including counterparty risk assessment and ongoing monitoring of business partners.
• Dynamic Discount Platform Platform enabling beneficial interaction between buyers and their suppliers through dynamic discounting programs that optimize working capital for both parties.
• Kept Audit Software Proprietary software product for conducting and documenting audits, utilizing modern programming technologies, managing audit processes with access to methodology, guides, and specific knowledge, integrated with other Kept information resources.
• INSIGHT BI Platform Business intelligence platform delivered in partnership with Goodt for enterprise data analytics, financial reporting analytics, and structured data analysis.
• Digital Forensics and eDiscovery Cybersecurity and digital forensics services including computer forensics, eDiscovery, and data analytics for investigations, litigation support, and incident response.

Quantifiable outcome

• 35 years of market presence in Russia
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments12 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ShineWing CPAcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 May 2024ShineWing CPA is one of the top 10 audit and advisory firms in China with over 9,000 employees across 30 branches in mainland China and headquarters in Beijing. The cooperation agreement enables Kept and ShineWing CPA to provide a wide range of services and effectively use joint resources to solve client business problems in both countries.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• McKinsey & Company: Global management consulting incumbent. Comparable strategic and operational consulting practice for large Russian enterprises, particularly in oil & gas and metals where Kept also competes for transformation mandates.
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu: Global Big Four firm that exited its Russian practice (now DRT). Comparable audit, consulting, tax, and risk services at global scale; benchmark for service breadth, methodology, and enterprise client expectations.
• PwC International: Global Big Four firm that exited Russia (now Technologies of Trust). Comparable audit, consulting, and tax offerings; competing brand that multinational clients with Russia exposure may still prefer over local successors.
• KPMG International: Kept's former global network parent until June 2022. Broad incumbent operating globally across the same service lines; sets the methodology and quality standards Kept still inherits while continuing to compete for international mandates Kept cannot serve.
• Ernst & Young (EY): Global Big Four firm that exited Russia (now B1). Comparable full-service professional services portfolio — audit, consulting, tax, deal advisory — and the benchmark Kept competes against for cross-border mandates.
• Accenture: Global technology and management consulting incumbent. Comparable technology consulting, digital transformation, and large-scale systems integration services that overlap with Kept's Technology practice.

Direct peers

• Технологии Доверия (formerly PwC Russia): Former PwC Russia practice, now operating as Technologies of Trust. Directly comparable Big Four successor offering audit, consulting, and tax services to the same enterprise client base in Russia.
• ДРТ (DRT, formerly Deloitte Russia): Former Deloitte CIS practice, rebranded as DRT after 2022. Competes head-to-head with Kept in audit, consulting, and risk advisory for Russian large-caps and financial institutions.
• ФБК (FBK): One of the largest non-Big-Four Russian audit and consulting firms. Comparable across audit, valuation, and consulting services, particularly for mid-market and large Russian enterprises outside the Big Four successor orbit.
• Б1 (B1, formerly EY Russia): Former EY Russia member firm, now operating independently following the 2022 Big Four exit. Direct competitor across audit, tax, consulting, and deal advisory for large Russian enterprises across the same verticals as Kept.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kept-business

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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