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 reasons like a landlord. We call it ARDO™ — the Adaptive Real-estate Decision Oracle. It is not a chatbot. It is an advisor: ask it about your rent data, your suburb's market signals, or where your arrears are sitting, and it gives you a grounded recommendation. The call stays yours.

What PropTraka does today

The platform you get on day one of early access, once you have done the one-time setup:

Mobile money rent collection that matches to the right tenant. Paybill and till collect live through Daraja and match the payment to the tenant for you. Pochi La Biashara and Send Money — which Safaricom doesn't expose to Daraja — are handled by forwarding the M-Pesa SMS to your unique PropTraka address (a one-time phone setup); ARDO then matches each one to the right tenant for a one-tap confirmation, with anything it isn't sure about waiting on a short Needs-Review list. Receipts go out either way. Far less SMS scrolling at month-end.
KRA eTIMS-compliant invoicing — coming soon. Monthly Rental Income (MRI) prep is already built into the platform. eTIMS invoicing in PropTraka is on the way: once it goes live and your KRA OSCU credentials are connected, every receipt will carry the eTIMS invoice and QR code KRA expects, and you will sign off before anything is submitted. We are finishing KRA onboarding before flipping it on.
Tenant and lease management in one place. Keep every tenant, lease, and renewal organised, with lease-expiry reminders so nothing creeps up on you, and your arrears and payment history sitting where you can see them. (Applicant screening and scoring through TrustTraka™ is live — it turns a new applicant's M-Pesa payment discipline, uploaded ID and financial documents, KRA PIN verification, and employment (with their consent) into a Trust Profile with a trust score from 0 to 100 and a short ARDO recommendation to accept, adjust, or override before you sign.)
ARDO™ market intelligence per suburb. Ask what your 2BR in Kilimani is realistically clearing at, rather than what the portals advertise, and which suburbs are moving versus softening. Use it as advice for rent reviews, refurb decisions, and "should I buy here" questions.
Maintenance + contractors in one place. Open a job, assign a contractor, track it to completion, and log the spend against the property. Receipts attached. Tenants can raise requests from the portal, so the work starts in the right place. 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 their lease and payment records themselves. Twenty-four seven. Available offline.

There is more — financial reports, income and expense tracking by category, occupancy and yield dashboards, automated rent reminders over WhatsApp and email, invoicing, lease document e-signing, peer benchmarking, and arrears visibility on the dashboard. 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 and TCC validation, and is being readied for eTIMS invoicing the moment KRA onboarding is complete.
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 — the surfaces I described as live above are what I run on actual portfolios today. The piece I have flagged as coming soon — eTIMS invoicing — is honest about being on the way, while TrustTraka applicant screening is already live; onboarding will tell you exactly where each one stands.

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.