PropTraka is live — early access opens today for Kenyan landlords and property managers

Today I am opening PropTraka to early access.

If you are a landlord or property manager in Kenya — looking after one apartment, fifteen units, or a portfolio that spans Nairobi, Mombasa and beyond — this is for you.

Why I built this

I manage rental properties in Nairobi. My early workflow ran on three things: an Excel ledger no one wanted to update, M-Pesa transactions I matched to tenants line-by-line at month-end, and a KRA deadline that always crept up faster than expected.

I wanted property software that was built for how rent actually moves in Kenya — M-Pesa as the rail, KRA as the compliance cadence, tenant decisions made with local context. So I built it. Then I gave it an engine that thinks like an analyst and plans like a landlord. We call it ARDO™ — the Adaptive Real-estate Decision Oracle. It is not a chatbot. It is the layer that reads your rent data, your suburb's market signals, your tenant arrears patterns, and tells you what to do next.

What PropTraka does today

The platform you get on day one of early access:

Mobile money rent collection that reconciles itself. Paybill, till, Pochi, Send Money — PropTraka watches every channel and auto-matches the payment to the tenant. Instant receipts. No more SMS scrolling at month-end.
KRA eTIMS-compliant invoicing. Every receipt is an eTIMS invoice with the QR code KRA expects. Monthly Rental Income (MRI) prep is automatic. You sign off, we submit.
TrustTraka™ tenant screening. Before you sign a lease, you see the applicant's mobile money payment discipline, identity verification, employment evidence, and a single Trust Score you can compare against your own threshold. All grounded in Kenyan rails.
ARDO™ market intelligence per suburb. Know what your 2BR in Kilimani is actually clearing at, not what the portals advertise. Know which suburb is moving and which is softening. Use it for rent reviews, refurb decisions, and "should I buy here" questions.
Maintenance + contractors in one place. Open job, assign contractor, track to completion, log the spend against the property. Receipts attached. Everything is one tap away when an auditor or your future buyer asks.
A tenant portal so your phone stops ringing. Tenants pay rent, raise maintenance requests, and access documents themselves. Twenty-four seven. Available offline.

There is more — financial reports, occupancy and yield dashboards, automated rent reminders, lease document e-signing, peer benchmarking. The product is bigger than this list. But the surfaces above are what I use every week on the portfolios I manage, and they are why I trust shipping it to you now.

Built for Kenya

Three things shape every decision in PropTraka:

M-Pesa is the rent rail. Not the back-up plan, not "also supported" — the primary path that shaped every collection workflow in the product.
KRA compliance is a monthly cadence, not an annual scramble. The platform is built around the MRI filing rhythm, with eTIMS invoicing and TCC validation baked in.
Mobile, offline-first, low-bandwidth-friendly. Most Kenyan landlords manage on a phone, sometimes from a unit with no Wi-Fi. PropTraka has to work on that — and it does.

What "early access" actually means

I am being deliberate about this phase. Early access is a small first wave with hands-on onboarding for every landlord or property manager joining. The platform itself is not a prototype — everything described above is live and working on actual portfolios today.

A first read while you wait for your invite

While the waitlist works through its first wave, here is the piece I keep coming back to when landlords ask me where they should be collecting rent today:

Pochi to Paybill: When It Actually Pays to Switch — four M-Pesa channels, four kinds of landlord, a practical guide to picking and outgrowing the one that fits your scale.

This blog is going to be a regular place. Every piece will take a specific question landlords and managers are asking right now, ground it in Kenyan numbers, and give you something you can put to work the day you read it. No filler. No "10 things every landlord should know" lists.

Join the early access list

If you want in, join the waitlist here — leave your email and a few details about your portfolio so I know what to optimise the onboarding for. Invitations go out in waves over the coming weeks.

If you know a landlord or manager this would help — please send it on. Word of mouth from someone they trust is worth a hundred ads from me.

Asante for being here, and welcome.