Rolling Stoner Sessions with Kultiflo
The Pretoria Software Bringing Order to South Africa's Cannabis Clubs
Interviewer: Andrew Macfarlane
Transcriber and writer: Marli Wentzel
Everyone in the local cannabis scene loves to throw around a number. Four thousand clubs. Six thousand. Somewhere in that range, depending on who you ask. Nobody actually knows, because there’s no system keeping count and no real rulebook to count against.
That grey space is exactly where Stefan operates, and where he’s decided to build something.
Rolling Stoner sat down with Stefan, the man behind Tiny Town in Pretoria East and the co-founder of Kultiflo, a piece of software built specifically for the way South African cannabis clubs actually run.
From Adult Daycare to App Developer
Stefan opened one of the first private clubs in Pretoria East during about the worst week imaginable: hard lockdown.
The plan was to open on 3 March, then the hard lockdown landed on 28 February.
Baptism by fire.
The place pulled through anyway, and the vision never shifted: somewhere to sit down, relax and actually meet other stoners instead of just buying and leaving.
“Most of the wives started calling it our adult daycare centre,” he says.
The old half-pipe has been pulled out to make room for two pool tables and a proper chill area. The name itself comes from the idea of a small community inside a big town. The software grew straight out of running that community.
What Kultiflo Actually Does
Kultiflo, short for the “flow of cultivation”, is built for clubs stuck in the legal grey zone.
The clever bit is how it ties stock to people. Every plant and package booked into the system gets connected to a member. This means a club can argue, if it ever comes to that, that it is growing for its members rather than selling to the public.
Stefan is honest that nothing out there gives you genuine legal cover. Plenty of people will sell you “security” that will not hold up. What the software does is help you stay as compliant as you reasonably can.
And it does not force your hand.
- Want full ID checks and member verification? The option is there.
- Do not want it? Or just want to skip it? It is your choice.
He cannot enforce rules that do not officially exist, so he simply provides the tools and lets you run your club as you see fit.
Built for One Club, Then Everyone Else
He did not set out to sell this product.
Kultiflo started as an in-house fix for his own club, back when Tiny Town was part of a grow collective.
That arrangement did not last.
No two clubs are the same. They have different members, different stock and different ways of doing things. Regulating everyone according to one set of terms simply did not work.
He walked away and rebuilt the software so a single club could run entirely on its own, without feeding a group where everybody wants a slice while one person does the work.
It went live in March, and clubs started signing up.
Transparency That Runs Both Ways
For owners with more than one outlet, there is a central hub. They can book stock into one place, push it out to different shops and see what sells where.
Suppliers get their own view too.
A grower can log in and see exactly where their stock has gone, which shop is moving it and, on a consignment basis, who owes them what. It is all live and web-based.
That two-way visibility is the part clubs seem to like most. Everyone can see what is flying off the shelf and what is sitting. This makes planning the next grow far less of a guess.
Not Just a Cannabis Thing
Strip out the weed, and Kultiflo is really just a very good way to track anything moving on consignment.
Stefan reckons it would work for an organic produce shop proving a tomato came from a farm 20km up the road, or a small winemaker tracking where her bottles have landed.
Fittingly, he has kept cannabis out of the name completely. He is tired of everything in the industry becoming another “canna-something”.
The Numbers Nobody Else Has
And there are plenty of them.
Twenty-five clubs are running Kultiflo, with a combined 18,000 members between them.
Stefan calls that a drop in the bucket, and he is probably right. But it is also a figure almost nobody in this industry has been able to pin down.
With a Pretoria development team pushing updates constantly, that quiet counting might end up being the most valuable thing Kultiflo ever does.
Ready to see Kultiflo in action?
Email the team to book a 30-minute walkthrough using your club’s real workflow and compliance questions.
