ELCHI
AI market-entry department · Est. 2026 · Central Asia · The Gulf
Agent teams, human signature

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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studies published
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decision-makers per run
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proposal → interview
~3h
human time per study
Market snapshot: GCC and the UK route to Harrods Market snapshot: what business pays for AI video Two of seven published market snapshots
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

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Day 1–2Market intelligence60–250 sources, local language
Day 3–4Local positioningOffer rewritten for the local buyer
Day 5–7Decision-makersNamed people, 10% hand-verified
Day 8–14OutreachA human approves and sends every message. Then distribution: 30/60/90 plan, monitoring
N°01 Market intel · 10 N°02 Pricing · 2 N°03 Positioning · 6 N°04 Decision-makers · 1+data N°05 Outreach · 5 N°06 Go-to-market · 11 N°07 Reports · 21 N°08 QA · 3 Human signatureDiana B. 59 agents · 8 departments · 1 signature
What you actually receive

Three artefacts, not a deck

Market snapshot coverMarket snapshot coverSnapshot · 48 hMarket study · 60–250 sources
Buyer map
CompanyDecision-makerStatus
Urban LivingFounder & CEOverified
Kolesa GroupHead of Offline Salesverified
Scot HollandFounderverified
Astana PropertyCommercial Directorpending
BI GroupHead of Salespending
Qazaq RealtyManaging Partnerpending
Almaty EstateCEOpending
63 decision-makers · $3.4 data cost
Outreach
To: Founder & CEO, Urban Living
Subject: Almaty agencies losing after-hours leads
Gulmira, a quick note from Almaty. We mapped how twelve agencies handle inbound leads after 23:00 and where they leak. Two findings concern Urban Living directly. Would 20 minutes this week be useful? …
Approved and sent by a human 23% proposal → interview
Stage: pre-revenue. Pipeline built in September 2026. First paid contracts in progress. Names in the buyer map are public roles; contacts are delivered to the client only.
Signed by a human

Agents do the work. A person answers for every line

Money, discounts and letters to your future clients leave only after a human says yes. Every source is dated. Every decision-maker has a name.

Department index
N° 01Market intelligence10 agents
N° 02Pricing intelligence2 agents
N° 03Positioning and product6 agents
N° 04Decision-maker research1 agent + data pipeline
N° 05Outreach and sales5 agents
N° 06Go-to-market11 agents
N° 07Reports and design21 agents
N° 08QA and knowledge base3 agents
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. Took a model agency from zero to break-even. Owns the agent architecture today; hiring a CTO from this round.

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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.

Signed by a human
Astana · Almaty · Dubai