Founded 2020
Leo Martin and Adrian Blanco founded Kingsman while studying at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton — not to replicate the traditional consulting model, but to dismantle it.
Our Philosophy
These aren't values on a wall — they're the structural choices behind every session, strategy call, and essay.
Admissions readers can feel when an application is a genuine expression of a person and when it's constructed. We invest in the student first — their profile, their achievements, their narrative — because a strong candidate produces a strong application naturally. The reverse is rarely true.
What works at Harvard is not what works at Yale. What moves a Penn reader leaves a Princeton reader cold. We built a network of former admissions officers from every elite institution specifically because school-specific knowledge is not transferable — and guessing on a decision this important is not acceptable.
Most students want to be told their essay is great. The ones who get in are the ones who heard the truth, rewrote it, and submitted something they were genuinely proud of. We don't tell students what they want to hear. We tell them what they need to hear — and we stay in the room while they do the hard work.
