Pilot Activation Plan · August 2026 · Prepared by Blend

Campus
Crew
Pilot

10,000 verified activations. 200 student ambassadors. One month. A student network that already exists, already runs, and already has 60,000+ people following it.

10K
Verified Activations
200
Student Ambassadors
₹150
Cost per Activation
1 mo.
Bengaluru Pilot
UPI
Lite
First transaction, no PIN
Zero PIN friction
What we're delivering

One touchpoint.
End to end.

Blend owns one touchpoint from your brief and delivers it end to end: Campus Ambassadors. Not a promoter agency renting floor space in a supermarket — a student network already in market.

10K
Verified UPI signups across Bengaluru campuses
Guaranteed Volume
200
Student ambassadors — 50 activations each
Real students, not promoters
150
Cost per activation, all in — ambassadors, collateral, ops and reporting.
CAC
Your own referral program already pays around ₹100 for an uncontrolled, unmeasured signup from whoever happens to share a link. For ₹150 you get the same activation plus guaranteed volume, ambassador-level attribution, full collateral in market, and a model you can lift into 20 more cities in September.
₹50 delta
Your brief lists ten options

Campus goes first.
Five reasons.

₹0

Zero touchpoint access cost

Supermarkets, fuel pumps and QSR chains all charge for access and take two to four weeks to permission. A campus needs a student who already studies there. Every rupee goes to activation, not rent.

🤝

Peer trust beats interception

A promoter in a store is a stranger asking for your phone. An ambassador is a classmate showing you how she got ₹100. That is a completely different conversion conversation.

📅

August is the single best month

New academic year. Freshers with new bank accounts, first-time independent spending, maximum sensitivity to saving ₹50 a week. Orientation and fest season. You will not get this window again until next July.

🎯

The audience is incentive-native

Navi's referral program is being shared in college WhatsApp groups right now, unmanaged and untracked. This plan does not create that behaviour — it organises it, measures it, and puts your brand in control of it.

📊

Cleanest tracking in the brief

One ambassador, one code, one campus. Attribution is exact by design, not reconstructed after the fact.

Every other agency starts recruitment on day one

We start activation
on day one.

We are not building a student network for this brief. We already run one.

Recruitment Engine

60,000+ followers — ambassadors come to us

@theblendcommunity is our organic recruitment machine. You are not funding our cold start. Where other agencies spend week one finding students, we spend it activating them.

Proof of Delivery

The Blended Show

Our proof that we run recurring programs with real students and actually deliver output at the end of them. Not a concept deck. A track record.

Same City

Bengaluru-based ground control

Blend is headquartered in Bengaluru, same city as Navi. Weekly reviews happen in a room, not on a call. Client-side observation and mid-flight course correction are trivial.

Economics

₹15L. 10,000 activations.
Full attribution.

Verified signups10,000
Number of ambassadors200
Signups per ambassador50
Charge per ambassador₹5,000
Ambassador cost₹10,00,000
Assets & collateral₹2,00,000
Agency fee₹3,00,000
Total cost to Navi₹15,00,000
Cost per activation (CAC)₹150
Why 50 per ambassador is conservative

50 signups across a month is 1.6 a day. On a campus of 2,000+ students, during orientation month, with a ₹100 reward in hand. We have deliberately set the per-ambassador number low enough that delivery is not in question. Upside above 50 is where the interesting numbers live.

Your CAC
₹150

Guaranteed volume commitment · Ambassador-level and campus-level attribution · Geo-tagged proof · Deduplication and quality control · Trained script · Full collateral kit in market · A repeatable model

vs. your referral program
₹100 ₹150

The ₹50 delta is the entire difference between a referral scheme and a distribution channel — one you own, measure, and can scale on demand.

Peer trial, not forced trial

Six steps. One month.
50 times per ambassador.

Your brief calls this forced trial. On campus we recommend running it as peer trial — same funnel, same verification, better conversion, and none of the friction that comes with a stranger asking for your phone.

1

Approach

Ambassador works their own network first: classmates, hostel floor, club, canteen table. Warm before cold.

2

Frame the saving, not the app

The pitch is not "download Navi." It is "you spend about ₹3,000 a month on food and recharge — here is what you get back."

3

Download and install

Via the ambassador's tracked link. Attribution locks at this step, to an individual and a campus.

4

First transaction via UPI Lite

The most important line in this document. No PIN required. Fast, private, and compliant by design.

5

Hand over the referral

New user gets their own code before the ambassador walks away. Each activation becomes a potential second activation at zero cost to Navi.

6

Log it

Activation is captured against ambassador ID, campus and timestamp, and lands on the dashboard the same day.

Why UPI Lite at step four. UPI Lite requires no PIN. Routing the first transaction through Lite means the ambassador never stands next to someone entering a UPI PIN. That single decision cuts activation time per user, removes the biggest compliance exposure in the entire program, and makes the flow simple enough that a 19-year-old can run it 50 times without a script in hand.

Collateral per ambassador

₹2,00,000 assets budget
Branded tee and lanyard
A6 leaflet with QR and reward — 200 per ambassador
Table tent cards for canteen and library tables
One canteen standee per campus
WhatsApp and Instagram story kit
One-page script card — pitch front, objection handling back
Tracking and reporting

You don't guess.
You verify.

🔗

Unique code per ambassador

Every activation attributes to an individual, a campus and a date. No aggregate guessing.

📊

Daily dashboard

Funnel view — approached, downloaded, installed, transacted. Campus-wise and ambassador-wise.

📍

Geo-tagged proof of activation

Captured at the point of transaction. Campus, timestamp and ambassador ID all locked together.

Quality Control Layer
Duplicate device and duplicate account checks
Flagging of ambassadors with abnormal activation patterns
Seven-day retention check on every activation, so you know how many are real users and not just numbers
Any activation Navi rejects on verification is not billed
We would rather report 9,400 clean activations than 10,000 you cannot trust. The point of a pilot is a number you can build a pan-India budget on.
31 days · four phases

August 2026
— day by day.

1–5
Mobilise
Days 1–5

Lock & Load

  • Campus shortlist locked
  • 200 ambassadors onboarded from existing Campus Crew pipeline
  • Navi issues tracking codes
  • Collateral into production
6–9
Train & Launch
Days 6–9

Stress-Test the Funnel

  • Ambassador training and script
  • UPI Lite flow walkthrough
  • Live on first 30 campuses
  • Dashboard stress-test
10–24
Full Drive
Days 10–24

All Campuses Active

  • Fest and orientation drives
  • Weekly leaderboard published to ambassadors
  • Mid-flight optimisation on the campuses that are converting
25–31
Final Push
Days 25–31

Close & Report

  • Last-week bonus tier live
  • Final verification pass
  • Retention check on all activations
  • Pilot report delivered
⚠️ Note on start date: to deliver inside August, mobilisation needs to begin immediately. Every day of delay comes off the full drive window, which is where the volume sits.
Six inputs, then we go

What we need
from Navi.

01

Tracking codes or referral links

Provisioned at individual ambassador level, with a data feed or dashboard access on your side.

02

Confirmed consumer reward amount

The reward and its validity window, locked before training. Ambassadors need to quote a precise number.

03

UPI Lite first-transaction confirmation

Written confirmation that the first-transaction flow can route through UPI Lite. This is the core compliance decision in the plan.

04

Brand assets and collateral approval

Assets for tees, leaflets, standees, table tent cards and the WhatsApp/Instagram story kit.

05

A single point of contact

One person for weekly review. We are Bengaluru-based, so this can happen in a room.

06

Definition of a verified activation

Including how uninstalls inside the pilot window are treated. Agreed before the pilot begins.

Approve the pilot and we mobilise Bengaluru inside five days.

Blend delivers everything else — recruitment, training, collateral, ground ops, tracking and reporting. Six inputs from Navi. Everything else is on us.

We're ready →