AI market-entry department
ELCHI

Agent teams take a B2B company into a new country in 14 days

Market intelligence, local positioning, decision-makers, first meetings. Every deliverable signed by a human.

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Central Asia · The Gulf · 7 market studies published
The cost of a border

Two months and $40K before the first meeting is booked

Boutique entry study
$10–40K

4–8 weeks. Ends with a PDF, not with people to call.

Accelerator seats
10 of 373

Silkway 2026. Hub71 took 52 of 5,000+. Everyone else enters alone.

Why now
$1B+

Kazakhstan's IT export in 2025. 537 exporting companies in Astana Hub, 490+ with foreign capital.

Sources: pear.it.com; digitalbusiness.kz, 13.02 and 01.09.2026; WAM / Hub71, 2025. Accessed 29.09.2026.
How the department works

59 agents. Eight departments. One signature

Day 1–2
Market intelligence60–250 sources, local language
Day 3–4
Local positioningOffer rewritten for the local buyer
Day 5–7
Decision-makersNamed people, 10% hand-verified
Day 8–14
OutreachA human approves and sends
Ongoing
DistributionDistributors, 30/60/90 plan
N° 01 · Market intelligence10 agents
N° 02 · Pricing intelligence2 agents
N° 03 · Positioning and product6 agents
N° 04 · Decision-maker research1 agent + data pipeline
N° 05 · Outreach and sales5 agents
N° 06 · Go-to-market11 agents
N° 07 · Reports and design21 agents
N° 08 · QA and knowledge base3 agents
Already running

Seven market studies published

7
snapshots, 60–250 sources each, produced in 24–48 hours
63
decision-makers mapped in one run, in a thin-data market, for $3.4 of data cost
23%
proposal-to-interview rate: 3 interviews from the first 13 proposals
~3h
of human time per study

Stage: pre-revenue. Pipeline built in September 2026. First paid contracts in progress.

Market snapshot: GCC and the UK route to HarrodsMarket snapshot: what business pays for AI video
Fixed price, then monthly

An entry product that turns into a retainer

Snapshot · 48 h
$450

One market, one question

Full report
$900

Market, competitors, pricing, plan

Buyer map
$1,200

150 accounts with decision-makers

Retainer · per month
$800–1,500

Outreach operations, competitor and price monitoring

Now

Foreign B2B startups entering Central Asia

6–12 months

Exporters from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

12+ months

White label for hubs and trade agencies

Two people run the department
CEO · Agents and go-to-market
Diana Boronina

Designed and runs 200+ AI agent roles across five projects. Went through Astana Hub's Central Eurasia Market Entry 2026 from the inside. Took a model agency from zero to break-even. Owns the agent architecture today.

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COO · Operations and product
Alina Markushina

Runs delivery: specs, acceptance criteria and test scenarios for AI agents. Market research, customer interviews, offer and pricing. UX and Figma.

Start with one market, one question

Book a 48-hour snapshot

Tell us the country and the question. Within 48 hours you get a market snapshot from 60–250 local-language sources, signed by a human. $450, fixed.

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