Kiota pilot report

Delft, week three

Onboarding held steady at 162 accounts, almost all of it still referral-driven. Spending did not hold: 21 buyers spent R562, roughly a third of the previous week, and only the bakery traded. Collection was faster than in either earlier week, at a 7 minute median.

Window 25–31 July 2026 Source Kiota production database Pulled 26 August 2026
162 accounts onboarded flat on week two's 170
157 arrived via a referral link 97% of the week's signups
21 members who spent money down from 47
R562 spent at co-op merchants 28 orders, one merchant

Adoption

Recruiting held its rate for a third week

162 accounts against week two's 170, from 48 onboarders against 46. Two weeks at the same level after a launch spike is the more useful signal: the referral mechanism keeps producing signups with no campaign behind it.

Accounts opened per day

Midweek is now the strongest stretch. The 31st is one day, not a trend.

21
19
27
33
31
21
10
Sat 25Sun 26Mon 27Tue 28 Wed 29Thu 30Fri 31

Referral engine

New names at the top

157 of the 162 accounts came in on a referral link. Half of this week's top ten do not appear in week two's, which matters more than the totals: the incentive is recruiting new recruiters, not only rewarding the same few.

Member Onboarded Via own link Relative
Corneluis Johannes Engelbrecht22100%
Wayne13100%
Bronwen Charmaine Keyster12100%
Zintle Dywele10100%
Soulin Malinda Erasmus8100%
Charles Edward George8100%
Louise Elsie Williams7100%
Dianne Arries6100%
Nokulunga Caba6100%
Zukiswa George5100%
All 48 onboarders157100%

Redemption

Spending fell back to one merchant

28 orders worth R561.94, against 78 orders and R1 985.80 the week before. Zoe Bakery was the only merchant to trade. 4 of the 21 buyers ordered more than once.

Merchant Buyers Orders Value
Zoe Bakery2128R561.94
Week three2128R561.94

Time from payment to collection

26 of the 28 orders collected. Median wait: 7 minutes, the fastest of the pilot.

Under 4 hours
25
4 to 24 hours
1
Over 24 hours
0

Where the week's orders stand

Nothing was written off, and no collected order went overdue first.

Collected
26 · R507.94
Ready, uncollected
2 · R54.00
Written off
0

Read before quoting

Three things these numbers do not say

Spend fell 72%

This is the weakest trading week of the three, and a reader will find it. The supportable reading is that recruitment and spending run on separate engines: signups held flat while spend fell to a third. Do not present week three as growth.

Supply, not demand

Only one merchant traded, against three in week two. Nothing in the data says whether the others were closed, out of stock, or simply had no orders, so the effect is established and the cause is not.

No location filter

Nothing in the database is tagged Delft, and merchants carry no location field. These stay platform-wide figures for a pilot that ran in one place. Call it "the pilot", not "Delft only".