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Expert Business Plan Consulting Services in South Africa, Africa and Worldwide.
JTB Consulting is a South Africa-based business plan consultancy providing professionally structured, investor-ready business plans since 2006.
We support startups, SMEs, and established companies with business planning, financial modelling, valuations, feasibility studies, and strategic advisory services aligned with bank, investor, and funding institution requirements.
Proven Business Plan Consulting Services.
Company Valuations ● Financial Models ● Feasibility Studies ● Market Research ● Pitch Decks ● Business Consulting ● Business Analysis.
JTB Consulting has been recognised as a top business plan consulting firm in South Africa over multiple years, working exclusively to support client success.
Since 2006, we have delivered bankable business plans across more than 25 countries and 125+ industries, helping clients secure funding, guide strategic decisions, and scale sustainably.
Frequently Asked Questions about our Business Plan Consulting Services.
1. What are the top business consulting services available in South Africa?
The top business consulting services in South Africa typically include strategic planning, feasibility studies, financial modelling, business plans, market research, and business advisory. At JTB Consulting, we specialise in investor-ready documentation and strategic consulting that helps businesses scale sustainably.
High-quality business consulting services also include funding readiness support and competitive market positioning. South African companies increasingly seek consultants who deliver evidence-based insights and practical recommendations that improve performance, reduce risk, and support long-term strategy execution.
2. How can I hire a business consultant to improve my SME’s operations?
To hire a business consultant for SME operational improvement, begin by defining your challenges clearly. Review consulting firms that provide business consulting services tailored to SMEs, ensuring they offer diagnostic assessments, process optimisation, and financial analysis.
JTB Consulting supports SMEs by identifying bottlenecks, improving operational structures, strengthening financial management, and designing scalable growth strategies. Choose a consultant with proven experience, transparent processes, and sector-relevant knowledge. The right partner will deliver measurable improvements rather than theoretical recommendations.
3. What business consulting services help with market entry strategies?
Market entry strategy consulting typically includes market research, competitor benchmarking, customer segmentation, pricing strategy development, and feasibility evaluation. These business consulting services help companies understand local demand, risk factors, and regulatory requirements before entering new markets.
At JTB Consulting, we provide structured market-entry guidance for startups and corporates looking to expand within South Africa or into broader African markets. Our approach identifies viable opportunities, highlights competitive gaps, and ensures financial and operational models align with market realities.
4. Where can I find affordable business consulting packages for startups?
Affordable business consulting services for startups can be found through specialised consulting firms that understand early-stage challenges. JTB Consulting provides tailored startup support, including business plans, financial models, feasibility studies, and market research—designed to meet the needs of entrepreneurs seeking funding or validation.
When evaluating affordability, assess the value offered rather than just price. High-quality consulting improves investor readiness, market understanding, and long-term scalability. Choose a consultant who demonstrates transparency, offers fixed-fee packages, and has a strong track record assisting South African startups.
5. How do business consultants assist with financial planning for small businesses?
Business consultants assist small businesses with financial planning by analysing cash flow, forecasting revenue, optimising cost structures, and developing realistic financial models. These business consulting services help SMEs understand funding requirements, profitability potential, and financial risks.
At JTB Consulting, we create tailored financial frameworks that support decision-making, enhance investor confidence, and guide sustainable growth. Consultants also help establish budgeting processes, break-even analysis, performance metrics, and financial controls. Effective financial planning improves stability, supports expansion, and ensures the business can withstand market fluctuations common in South Africa’s economic environment.
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World-Class Business Plans Built to withstand Scrutiny.
A professionally prepared business plan is more than a funding requirement—it is a decision-making framework that must withstand scrutiny from banks, investors, development finance institutions, regulators, and internal management teams. At JTB Consulting, business plans are developed as analytical, evidence-based documents designed to support real capital decisions rather than marketing narratives.
Each business plan is structured to align with formal funding criteria, incorporating financial modelling, market research, strategic positioning, and operational logic that funders expect. Whether you are launching a startup, scaling an existing business, restructuring operations, or preparing for acquisition or expansion, a business plan must demonstrate commercial viability, risk awareness, and execution capability.
Since 2006, JTB Consulting has prepared business plans across more than 125 industries and market segments, supporting clients in South Africa, across Africa, and internationally. These plans have been used for debt and equity funding applications, shareholder decision-making, immigration and visa applications, feasibility assessments, and long-term strategic planning.
Our approach avoids generic templates and one-size-fits-all formats. Every engagement is treated as a standalone assignment, structured around the client’s industry, funding objective, market context, and risk profile. Financial forecasts are integrated with strategy; market demand is evidenced through research; and assumptions are clearly documented to ensure transparency and credibility.
Business plans prepared by JTB Consulting are designed to serve multiple purposes: securing funding, guiding management decisions, supporting negotiations, and providing a clear roadmap for execution.
This ensures the business plans remain relevant long after submission to funders.
With an established track record since 2006, a consistently high client recommendation rate, and verified feedback accumulated over two decades, JTB Consulting continues to support entrepreneurs, SMEs, and established companies that require bankable, investor-ready business plans grounded in commercial reality rather than promise-driven projections.
This is How We Manage Your Business Plan Project.
Our process is structured, transparent, and designed to align with funding and execution requirements.
If you wish to partner with JTB Consulting, you can ACCEPT our Proposal before the Proposal Expiration Date. You can do this by sending us your written confirmation via email (accounts@jtbconsulting.co.za) or accepting the Proposal via our Online Electronic Platform.
Kindly note that we request a 50% deposit to initiate your Project. Once we receive your proof of payment and after the deposit is confirmed as received by our bank, your assigned Business Plan Consultant will send you a list of company and personal documentation we require to start with the writing of your Business Plan.
We will also send our Client Questionnaire requesting initial information from you regarding the strategy and finances of your business venture.
You are more than welcome to contact your Business Plan Consultant should you have any questions throughout your Project’s management. Once we receive the completed Client Questionnaire and all supporting documentation from you, your dedicated Business Plan Consultant will review the information within three (3) to five (5) working days.
Once we have received and reviewed all the requested information, your Business Plan Consultant will schedule a Strategic Consultation (Briefing) Session with you. The purpose would be to further explore the details of your business venture, strategy and also analyse and discuss the information received from you.
The Briefing Session will be held via Telephone or Videoconference .
Your Business Plan Consultant conducts Secondary (Desktop) Market Research, design a unique Financial Projections Model and writes your Business Plan. You will receive regular updates via or email on the progress of your Project.
Moreover, should you have any questions, you are more than welcome to contact us via email, WhatsApp, Telegram, and telephone during the duration that our team manages your Project.
We confirm your Professional Business Plan completion (which will be completed within the agreed project completion date). Upon receipt of the final payment, which is required within no more than seven (7) days following formal notification of completion, the Business Plan is submitted to you via email, in editable Microsoft Word format.
As part of our Customer Satisfaction Guarantee, you have 14 days from the date of completing your Business Plan to contact our team to discuss any aspects of your Business Plan. During these two weeks, you may also request minor changes, which our team will incorporate for free.
This proposition is part of our Post-Project Guarantee Policy (The two week period starts from the date you receive formal notification from JTB Consulting that your Business Plan has been completed).
JTB Consulting (and its team of Business Plan Consultants) is an approved Business Plan Writing Services supplier to the government and is registered to provide services nationally.
Government representatives and departments are welcome to contact us and request our services or invite us to tender for upcoming projects.
Our supplier number on the South African Government Central Supplier Database (CSD) is MAAA0885860.
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Business Plan Consulting Services provided by JTB.
Business Plans Designed for Funding, Decision-Making, and Long-Term Execution.
A professional business plan serves a different purpose depending on context. For funders, it is a risk assessment and capital allocation document. For founders and management teams, it is a decision-making framework that tests commercial logic, financial viability, and execution readiness. When used correctly, a business plan is not written to persuade, but to withstand scrutiny from banks, investors, and internal stakeholders evaluating real capital decisions.
In the South African and broader African funding environment, business plans are typically required to demonstrate market validation, defensible assumptions, realistic financial forecasts, and a clear execution pathway. Poorly structured plans, generic templates, or narrative-led documents often fail not because the idea lacks merit, but because they do not align with how funding institutions assess risk, return, and sustainability.
JTB Consulting approaches business planning as a structured analytical process rather than a writing exercise. Each plan is developed to support specific outcomes, including funding applications, internal approvals, acquisitions, expansions, regulatory submissions, and long-term strategic execution. The objective is clarity, credibility, and alignment—ensuring that the business plan functions as a practical tool long after submission, not a one-off document.
JTB's StartSmart© Business Blueprint—for Pre-Startups and New Startups
Ideal for early-stage entrepreneurs (pre-startup to businesses under one year old), this cost-effective business plan includes a bankable 3-year financial model and is tailored for funding applications of up to R5 million. Whether you need approval from regulatory bodies, landlords, or investors, this package provides a structured foundation to kickstart your venture.
JTB's NexStart© Strategic Blueprint—for Early-Stage and Scaling Startups
Designed for startups in their first two years of operation, this package goes beyond a business plan—it’s a strategic growth blueprint. Combining market research, risk analysis, and financial forecasting, it equips businesses seeking funding of up to R15 million from government funders, private investors, and development banks with a solid roadmap for sustainable expansion.
JTB's GrowthPulse© Strategic Blueprint—for Established Businesses and Niche Projects
A comprehensive, high-impact business plan for established companies, business acquisitions, and large-scale startups seeking funding from R1 million to R1 billion. This package features in-depth market research, strategic business model analysis, and 10-year financial projections with advanced financial insights, ensuring a clear pathway to scaling, investment, and long-term profitability.
In-Depth Business Valuation and Company Analysis.
Business valuation is required whenever ownership, funding, risk, or strategic control is being assessed. This includes business sales and acquisitions, shareholder transactions, funding applications, restructuring, and internal decision-making. A credible company valuation must be explainable to third parties and defensible under scrutiny.
At JTB Consulting, our business valuation and analysis service focuses on independently assessing the enterprise and equity value of a business using recognised valuation methodologies. These include income-based approaches such as Discounted Cash Flow, market-based benchmarking using comparable transactions and multiples, and asset-based methods where appropriate.
Our valuation work integrates financial performance, future cash-flow potential, capital structure, industry conditions, operational risks, and strategic positioning. Each engagement is scoped according to its decision context, whether for investors, banks, boards, regulators, or counterparties.
This service is typically required where valuation accuracy affects transaction outcomes, funding approval, or long-term strategic planning.
- Independent, objective valuations with actionable insights.
- Financial and market analysis, including revenue, debt, competition, and industry risks.
- Advanced valuation methodologies, using Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and up to five different valuation techniques.
Business Plans for Global Immigration and Visa Application Programs.
Tailored business plans aligned with visa program requirements for key countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Immigration and visa business plans must meet specific requirements and deliverables under different country immigration programs. Our team knows the ins and outs of these programs. We ensure all criteria are met, improving our clients’ chances of success and delivering the best possible outcome for their applications.
If you are planning to immigrate to the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, or Ireland and can show that you have a viable business idea and present a well-documented business plan to the government, they are significantly more likely to fast-track your approval, which will allow you to live and start a business in their country.
To be approved for any of these visas, you will need a comprehensive business plan. Many of those seeking legal immigration status attempt to create a document that satisfies these complex visa requirements independently. Even though they may have a strong business idea, they lack the experience or expertise needed to write an immigration and visa business plan and cannot meet all the requirements. This means their visa application is not approved immediately (or sometimes at all).
Each of our immigration and visa business plans is written with the destination country and industry in mind. We do not have a “one-size-fits-all template or process” to guarantee your entrepreneurial idea’s approval. We treat every request as unique, taking specific country regulatory requirements into account.
Market Research to Guide Strategic Business Decisions.
Comprehensive PESTEL evaluations, customer and competitor insights, TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing, and actionable strategic recommendations.
One of the biggest challenges for startups and existing businesses is proving market viability. Investors and funders expect data-backed insights, and JTB Consulting ensures that your business plan includes the latest industry research from our extensive market research database, covering over 500 South African and International industries.
No other business plan company in South Africa offers this comprehensive market research as part of its service.
Our market research services empower businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs with reliable, data-driven insights across South Africa, Africa, and globally. Whether you require secondary (desktop) research, primary market research, or a combination of both, we provide customised reports to support strategic decision-making, investment analysis, and business growth.
- Desktop Market Research Gathering insights from freely available primary and secondary sources.
- Primary Market Research Access to exclusive industry reports from leading market research firms, offering long-term market outlooks.
- Customised Industry Reports Covering market trends, competitive landscapes, risks, opportunities, and future projections.
Specialist Financial Projections and Financial Models.
Financial projections translate a business strategy into structured, testable numbers. This service focuses on building integrated Excel-based financial models that show how revenue, costs, cash flow, capital requirements, and profitability evolve over time.
JTB Consulting develops driver-based financial projections used for funding applications, internal planning, acquisitions, and board-level decision-making. Models are structured to align with business plans, investor expectations, and lender review criteria, with clear assumptions, scenario analysis, and sensitivity testing.
This service is typically used alongside business plans, valuations, and feasibility studies, but can also be delivered as a standalone financial modelling engagement.
Whether you’re starting a business or scaling an existing one, our Excel-based financial models provide accurate forecasts for all business areas, including:
- Capital (CAPEX) Requirements
- Cash Flow
- Balance Sheet
- Income Statement
- Revenue and Expense Projections
- Break-Even Analysis
- Business Valuations, and more...
Compelling Pitch Decks to Secure Investor Confidence.
Venture capital-grade, visually compelling pitch decks and executive presentations crafted to meet investor expectations.
Your investor pitch deck is more than just a presentation—it’s the story of your business, team, and vision. Whether you are a startup seeking funding or an established business presenting a new project, a well-crafted pitch deck is essential for capturing investor interest and securing buy-in from key stakeholders.
A pitch deck (sometimes referred to as a Prospectus) is a concise, professionally designed presentation of no more than 20-30 slides, typically created in PowerPoint. It serves as a high-level overview of your Business Plan, providing a clear, compelling, and visually engaging summary of your venture.
At JTB Consulting, we specialise in custom pitch decks that have successfully helped clients secure debt and equity funding from investors across Europe, the USA, Africa, South Africa, and the Middle East. Our pitch decks service distils complex business strategies into engaging narratives that captivate investors, funders, partners, and customers.
- Ideal for face-to-face and online investor meetings
- Concise alternative to a full business plan
- Visually compelling, easy-to-digest presentation
- Designed to persuade and secure funding
Want to learn more and see examples of our work? Visit the link below to learn how our expertise can elevate your business presentation.
Expert Business Consulting and Business Analysis.
Business consulting focuses on diagnosing operational, financial, and strategic challenges and translating insight into practical, implementable decisions. This service supports business owners, management teams, and investors who require objective analysis, structured planning, and execution support beyond standalone business plans.
JTB Consulting provides evidence-based business consulting and in-depth business analysis to support growth strategy, operational improvement, feasibility assessment, and funding readiness. Engagements typically integrate financial modelling, market analysis, and strategic review to ensure decisions are commercially sound, defensible, and aligned with long-term objectives.
Our business consulting and business analysis services provide targeted solutions for key business challenges, including:
- Financial and operational analysis to improve efficiency.
- Strategic growth planning for scaling businesses.
- Risk assessment and problem-solving for complex challenges.
- Market positioning and competitive strategy development.
Our business consulting services are designed to be practical, results-driven, and tailored to your business needs. Whether you need a one-off consultation or ongoing strategic guidance, we provide actionable insights to help you make informed decisions and optimise your business for success.
Tender Writing, Business Proposals and Feasibility Studies.
Feasibility Study Services.
Our feasibility study services provide decision-makers with a clear, evidence-based view of whether a proposed project, investment, or contract opportunity should proceed. The focus is not advocacy, but structured analysis and disciplined go/no-go guidance.
We assess commercial viability, financial sustainability, market demand, operational feasibility, and key risks in an integrated manner. This typically includes revenue and cost modelling, sensitivity analysis, funding considerations, regulatory and compliance factors, and execution risks. The outcome is a practical decision framework that allows management, boards, and investors to proceed with confidence, pause for refinement, or decline an opportunity before committing capital and resources.
Feasibility studies are commonly commissioned ahead of major investments, new market entry, large contracts, infrastructure projects, and funding applications. In the context of tenders and proposals, a feasibility study ensures that any bid submitted is commercially sound, deliverable, and aligned with the organisation’s strategic and financial capacity.
Tender and Proposal Submission Services.
Our tender and proposal submission services support organisations that need to respond to competitive opportunities under tight timeframes and strict compliance requirements. This includes government tenders as well as requests for proposals from listed and privately owned organisations.
Many clients approach us with limited internal capacity, prior unsuccessful tender attempts, or little experience in formal tendering processes. Others tender regularly but recognise the complexity, risk, and resource intensity involved. In all cases, the objective is the same: to submit a response that is compliant, commercially credible, and clearly aligned with what the issuing organisation is seeking.
We work systematically from the outset, ensuring that the opportunity is viable, the requirements are fully understood, and the response is structured around the client’s real strengths and delivery capability. Particular attention is given to compliance, evaluation criteria, pricing logic, risk management, and clarity of execution. The result is a professional, well-reasoned submission that maximises the probability of success while avoiding bids that are unlikely to be commercially or operationally viable.
Together, our feasibility and tender services ensure that organisations pursue the right opportunities and submit bids that are both competitive and sustainable.
We Write Bankable Business Plans.
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