What Threeframes (Pty) Ltd does

Threeframes (Pty) Ltd is a privately held boutique consulting firm incorporated in South Africa in 2016 (registration number 2016/002210/07), headquartered at Suite C, Mezzanine Floor, Eco Court, 340 Witch-Hazel Ave, Centurion. The firm provides professional consulting services to government and corporate clients, with primary specialisation in the South African Department of Defence (DOD) and the multi-decade Defence Enterprise Information Systems (DEIS) Master Plan — a sovereign-borders modernisation programme covering all defence information systems within South Africa. The service portfolio comprises eight distinct offerings: Modernisation Consulting, Strategy Consulting, Defence Consulting, Programme and Project Management Services, Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Business Process Design/Improvement/Re-Engineering, Business Optimisation, and Product Development. All engagements follow a structured ANALYSE-DESIGN-IMPLEMENT delivery methodology and the firm is positioned as product, technology, and framework agnostic.

The firm's technical stack draws on established enterprise architecture frameworks — TOGAF, MoDAF, DoDAF — and project management methodologies including Prince2, PMBOK, and Agile, without proprietary technology stack lock-in. Leadership combines an engineering mindset with military experience, and team members participated in the first implementations of the DEIS Master Plan, providing the firm with deep, hard-to-replicate domain context. Revenue is generated through bespoke consulting engagements delivered predominantly on-site at client premises, with pricing conducted via annual reviews (new prices effective 1 September each year), pass-through of exchange rate and Service Provider cost changes, and a 25% placement fee for direct retention of consultants within 12 months of engagement termination. The firm operates from a single Centurion office, services a Southern African market, and sits in the 11-50 employee band. No funding rounds, ownership structure beyond founder-ownership indications, institutional investors, parent company, subsidiaries, awards, patents, or strategic partnerships are disclosed in the available source material.

Name

Threeframes (Pty) Ltd

Legal name

Threeframes (Pty) Ltd

Website

https://threefram.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Threeframes (Pty) Ltd is a South African boutique consulting firm providing modernisation, strategy, defence, enterprise architecture, and programme management services to government and corporate clients, with primary specialisation in the Department of Defence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Centurion

HQ country

South Africa

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Threeframes generates revenue through professional consulting services, providing expertise in modernization consulting, strategy consulting, defence consulting, programme and project management, enterprise architecture consulting, business process design and re-engineering, business optimisation, and product development. Services are delivered through engagements with government and corporate clients, following a methodology of analyse, design and implement.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Threeframes is a boutique consulting firm that helps government and corporate clients modernize their operations through a structured Analyse-Design-Implement methodology. The company delivers professional consulting services across modernisation, strategy, defence sector, programme and project management, enterprise architecture, business process design and re-engineering, business optimisation, and bespoke product development.

Product overview

Threeframes is a boutique consulting firm offering a portfolio of professional services rather than a unified software product. The company provides eight distinct consulting service offerings: Modernisation Consulting (analyzing, designing, and implementing organizational modernization initiatives), Strategy Consulting (optimizing strategic direction), Defence Consulting (leveraging military and DEIS Master Plan experience), Programme and Project Management Services (using Prince2, PMBOK, Agile methodologies), Enterprise Architecture Consulting (working with TOGAF, MoDAF, DoDAF frameworks), Business Process Design/Improvement/Re-Engineering, Business Optimisation (assessing ICT capabilities), and Product Development (creating custom solutions). These services follow a consistent ANALYSE-DESIGN-IMPLEMENT methodology and share a core value proposition of being product, technology, and framework agnostic.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Modernisation Consulting

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Recent moves4 records

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Direct peers

• BearingPoint: European management and technology consultancy with strong public-sector and defence transformation practices, including enterprise architecture, programme management, and business process re-engineering. Closely mirrors Threeframes' ANALYSE-DESIGN-IMPLEMENT style of modernisation delivery.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: US-headquartered management and technology consulting firm with a heavy focus on US Department of Defence and federal government modernisation. Directly comparable to Threeframes' defence enterprise architecture, programme management, and modernisation mandate, though at vastly larger scale.
• PA Consulting: Global boutique innovation and transformation consultancy with defence, government, and enterprise architecture practices. Comparable to Threeframes in being a high-touch, expertise-led firm combining engineering rigour with strategy and modernisation work for defence and public-sector clients.

Broad incumbents

• PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Advisory: Global professional services firm with public-sector and defence advisory capabilities spanning strategy, operations, and technology-enabled transformation. Overlaps with Threeframes in enterprise architecture and modernisation consulting.
• Deloitte (Government & Public Services): Big Four advisory practice with deep government and defence consulting offerings in strategy, modernisation, enterprise architecture, and programme management. A typical broad incumbent peer competing for the same public-sector modernisation budgets.
• Accenture Federal Services: Federal/defence arm of Accenture delivering large-scale modernisation, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation programmes. Represents the kind of global incumbent that competes with boutique firms like Threeframes on defence modernisation contracts.
• Leidos: US defence, intelligence, and homeland security consultancy and systems integrator. Comparable in that it delivers enterprise information systems and modernisation programmes for defence ministries, similar in spirit to the DEIS work Threeframes supports.
• CGI Group: Large IT and business consulting firm with a significant defence and government practice, including enterprise systems integration and modernisation. Like Threeframes, it works on long-cycle defence programmes but operates at much greater scale and geographic breadth.
• Kearney: Global management consulting firm with strong operations and strategy practices, including public-sector and industrial transformation work. Comparable to Threeframes in the strategy and modernisation portion of its portfolio, though operating at a much larger scale.

Emerging players

• Mace (Mace Consult / MACE Group): International consultancy with growing programme management and transformation practice. Less directly comparable but illustrative of the kind of mid-sized consultancy competing for enterprise transformation and programme management mandates in adjacent markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/threeframes-pty-ltd

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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