4 July 2026
Trial extended four more weeks
A month in: 3,805 doorstep events, and every household wants to keep their Soter.
Our Dunedin trial has passed the one-month mark, and it has been extended for a further four weeks.
The numbers so far: Over a thousand real visitor interactions — deliveries, known visitors, and unknown callers screened at the door. The average doorstep conversation takes just 57 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: all eight households have asked to keep Soter after the trial ends.
These are early, draft findings from a trial 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.
