4 July 2026
Pilot extended four more weeks
A month in: 7,073 doorstep events, and 8 of 8 households asked to continue using Soter.
Our Dunedin pilot has passed the one-month mark, and it has been extended for a further four weeks.
The numbers: 7,073 doorstep events were recorded across 415 household-days. Doorstep events include door-open and sensor activity; 3,158 of them were conversations with visitors. The median conversation was 47 seconds: long enough to establish who the visitor is and why they've come... and hopefully short enough that couriers don't walk away.
When participants told us Soter helped, the most common reasons were knowing who was at the door and why they came — exactly the job we built it to do. And the signal we're proudest of: 8 of 8 households asked to continue using Soter after the pilot.
These are early, draft findings from a pilot that is still running, and there is plenty still to improve — participants want faster responses and rock-solid reliability, and that's where the next four weeks are focused.
