Kiota pilot report

Delft, week two

Signups fell back to 170 once the launch surge passed, but spending went the other way. 47 people bought something, up from 38, and they spent R1 986 against week one's R1 589. The median wait between paying and collecting halved to 18 minutes.

Window 18–24 July 2026 Source Kiota production database Pulled 26 August 2026
170 accounts onboarded down from 836 in week one
168 arrived via a referral link 99% of the week's signups
47 members who spent money up 24% on week one
R1 986 spent at co-op merchants 78 orders, 25% more value

Adoption

Signups settled into a weekday rhythm

Week one was a launch spike. Week two is the underlying rate: between 20 and 34 accounts on every day except Sunday, which produced 9. 46 different members brought someone in, down from 114, so the recruiting narrowed to a smaller core.

Accounts opened per day

Sunday is the quiet day in both weeks. Saturdays hold up.

34
9
32
20
23
23
29
Sat 18Sun 19Mon 20Tue 21 Wed 22Thu 23Fri 24

Referral engine

A smaller core kept recruiting

168 of the week's 170 accounts came in on a referral link. Corneluis Engelbrecht and Louise Williams were the two biggest onboarders in week one as well, and between them they brought in 44 of the 170.

Member Onboarded Via own link Relative
Corneluis Johannes Engelbrecht24100%
Louise Elsie Williams20100%
Gavin Lavin Petersen13100%
Zintle Dywele11100%
Charles Edward George8100%
Sinoxolo Ntshwaxu8100%
Lulutho Mlonyeni7100%
Zimbini Nkanga7100%
Simamkele Mqwamba6100%
Thando Mothibi5100%
All 46 onboarders168100%

Redemption

The best trading week of the pilot

78 orders worth R1 985.80, the highest of the three weeks. Two merchants beyond the bakery traded, and one airtime purchase settled directly against the platform. 13 of the 47 buyers came back for a second order inside the week.

Merchant Buyers Orders Value
Zoe Bakery4673R1 268.81
Home Of Compassion Ministries12R640.00
Gavin's Barbershop22R70.00
Kiota platform (airtime)11R6.99
Week two4778R1 985.80

Time from payment to collection

67 orders collected. Median wait: 18 minutes, down from 30 in week one.

Under 4 hours
62
4 to 24 hours
3
Over 24 hours
2

Where the week's orders stand

77 of the 78 orders carry a collection. The airtime purchase is delivered instantly and has none.

Collected
67 · R1 232.82
Ready, uncollected
10 · R745.99
Written off
0

Read before quoting

Three things these numbers do not say

No location filter

Nothing in the database is tagged Delft. Merchants carry no location field, and communities only became a concept on 23 July, inside this window. These are platform-wide figures. Call it "the pilot", not "Delft only".

One buyer, a third of the value

Home Of Compassion Ministries took R640 from a single buyer across two orders, 32% of the week's value. Strip it out and week two's spend is R1 345.80, below week one. Quote the total, but expect the question.

Two onboarding numbers

170 accounts were created; 84 are verified. Use the same definition across all three weeks or the trend line is meaningless.