343 businesses. Roughly 40,000 reviews. A +0.07-star average above the rest of Kigali. The Kisimenti district mapped at the level of its actual customer base. What the data tells us about how a real Kigali neighbourhood operates — and where it's heading.
We read every review of every business in our directory — 50,000+ customer voices across 2,292 Kigali establishments. Here's what the data actually says about service, prices, and the things customers in this city care about more than the star count suggests.
Star ratings tell you who's good. Photo counts tell you who's *Instagrammable*. We pulled every customer-uploaded photo across our directory and looked at the businesses that get pointed at most. The pattern explains a lot.
We read the 32 most-reviewed hotels in our directory — 28,471 reviews, six years of customer feedback. Six things consistently get praised, three consistently get criticised, and one pattern about staff names surprised us.
Who you put first is the hardest design problem in any directory. Get it right, your readers come back. Get it wrong, you become Yellow Pages. We use one number, transparently — and we don't take money to change it. Here's the formula.
Why we named the company after a six-block neighbourhood in central Kigali. The brand promise is in the name, and so is everything we believe about what a good business directory should feel like.
Rwanda's online business district — not a map, not a review aggregator, not a marketplace. A directory ranked by what customers actually say. Here's what we are, what we're not, and exactly how to claim your business.