Founded 2026 Paris · Barcelona
PROJECT/THREE
Dual-use defense software

Interoperable
defense software
for Europe.

/ 00
Mandate
Europe's defense stack is fragmented across dozens of platforms that can't talk to each other. We build the software layer that makes them work as one — starting with counter-UAS, and extending to every future sensor, shooter, and decision loop on the field.
/ FOUNDED 2026
/ HQ PARIS · BARCELONA
/ STAGE PRE-SEED
/ TEAM 2 + GROWING
/ 01 · Company

A company built
to make things interoperate.

We're PROJECT/THREE — a two-person founding team that has been on both sides of the table. One of us ran the wartime budget. The other engineered the platform.

We started the company because the defense industry keeps shipping the wrong answer: more closed, single-vendor platforms, priced for a world that no longer exists. The frontline doesn't need another silo — it needs the software layer that ties everything already on the ground into one coherent picture.

That's what we're building. Software first. Dual-use by default. Europe, but not only Europe.

BEN & SANCHIT · FOUNDERS
/ 02 · What we build

Four products.
One stack.

/ 02.1

The fabric.

Our software — an AI-driven data layer that ingests signals from any number of distributed sensors and resolves them into a single live position-fix. Hardware-agnostic. Publishes to any existing C-UAS stack.

n → 1
Sensors in · Fix out
/ 02.2

RF sensors.

Low-cost, mass-deployable RF sensor nodes. Parachute-ready, self-healing, edge-classified. Designed so the hardware is the cheapest part of the system.

€50
Per unit
/ 02.3

Acoustic sensors.

Passive acoustic nodes — microphone arrays with on-device classification. Complementary to RF; works where RF doesn't. Deploys into the same fabric.

Edge
On-node classify
/ 02.4

The dataset.

A proprietary, operator-validated corpus of drone RF and acoustic signatures — collected from live deployments. Used to train our detection models and licensed to partners training theirs.

AI
Training corpus
/ 03 · Principles

How we operate.

/ 01

Software > hardware.

The best defense systems of the next decade will be defined by their software. We build hardware only when it unlocks software that couldn't otherwise exist.

/ 02

Interoperable by default.

We publish standard interfaces before we build UI. Our software works with whatever's already on the ground — including systems we compete with.

/ 03

Ship to the frontline.

Every feature is validated with operators in theater before it ships. If it doesn't survive a commander's stress test, it doesn't go in the build.

/ 04

Dual-use, not dual-purpose.

The same software runs emergency response, firefighting and infrastructure inspection. We don't rebuild — we extend.

/ 04 · People

Two founders.
Both sides of the table.

Ben Young
Co-founder · Commercial
BY
Combat infantry veteran turned defense financial manager. Ran a $130M annual budget for the DoD. Spent the last decade inside the procurement machine — and the last two years figuring out how to build outside it.
  • US ARMY / Combat Infantry
  • DoD / Financial Manager, Acquisitions
  • ESADE / MBA
Sanchit K. Gupta
Co-founder · Platform
SG
Roboticist. MS Robotics thesis on offline-reconfigurable UAV swarms. 50+ test flights on Pixhawk. Shipped $8.4M of autonomous-systems deals at Vecna Robotics before co-founding PROJECT/THREE.
  • VECNA ROBOTICS / Autonomous systems · $8.4M shipped
  • MS Robotics / Swarm UAVs · 50+ flights
  • ESADE / MBA
/ 04 · Activity

What we've been up to.

2026 · Q2
Milestone
V3 prototype begins field testing · integrated with partner C-UAS stack
Kyiv
2026 · May
Event
EDTH Netherlands + Kyiv Defense Tech Week · hackathons + operator sessions
NL · UA
2026 · May
Submission
NATO DIANA application · dual-use defense track
Brussels
2026 · Apr
Submission
Brave 1 application · Ukraine defense innovators
Kyiv
2026 · Mar
Milestone
V1 prototype complete · validated with UA operators & partner networks
Aachen
2026 · Feb
Event
Pioneers (Paris) · first public showing of the fabric
Paris
2026 · Feb
Milestone
Company founded · PROJECT/THREE incorporated in Paris
Paris
/ 05 · Contact

Talk
to a human.

No contact forms. No "request a demo" auto-responders. Email us directly — we read everything, and we answer.

Commercial
Offices
PARIS · BARCELONA