About us
Artifact is a market entry agency in Almaty. We help foreign manufacturers find distributors in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and the wider CIS, and we build the local presence that makes a distributor say yes.
- In figures
- 2011
- in the CIS and Central Asian market since, from Almaty
- 1,000+
- clients in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus
- 100+
- sites built and promoted
- 10+
- years of industrial video, filmed on site
- Premier
- Google Premier Partner: top 3% of agencies in the region. Yandex Direct certified
Where we come from
- 2011
We started doing the digital work for companies in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus: websites, search, advertising, CRM, social channels, industrial video. More than a thousand clients and over a hundred sites built and promoted since, from a family clinic in Almaty to machinery dealers and an industrial plant in Belarus. We filmed at plants and mines for companies of every size, ERG and KazMinerals among them. Along the way we learned how a buyer in this region checks a supplier, whom they trust, and what a distributor asks before signing.
That work sent us to trade shows every season, and we kept seeing the same scene. A foreign company with a good product. A local buyer interested in it. And nothing between them: no site in the buyer's language, no one on the stand who could say how supply, certification and payment would work. The buyer left with a brochure, and the deal ended there.
- 2024
We turned the work around. Instead of presenting Kazakh plants to Kazakh buyers, we present foreign brands to the distributors of this region: in their language, on the platforms they use, with the answers they need before the first call.
How we see the job
A trade show gives a brand three days in front of the market. We build the version that runs all year: a local site, content that answers a distributor's questions, channels the buyer actually reads, and people who pick up when the replies start.
When the engagement ends, the client keeps all of it.
Five teams do this work, with one project manager as the single point of contact: strategy, production, channels and traffic, client-facing translation and inquiry handling, management. Each channel is run by a specialist in that channel, not by one generalist.
On location
A minute from the ground: Central Asia through our lens.
Every frame shot by our own team. No stock footage.
Open-pit mine from the rim01 
Worker in protective suit at a bagging line02 
Our videographer shooting a control panel wall03 
Excavator loading a haul truck in the pit04 
Worker in respirator in front of bulk bags05 
Forklift carrying a bulk bag through a plant hall06 
Our photographer on a plant walkway07 
Welder crouching in a cloud of smoke08 
Haul truck on an open-pit mine road09 
Tracked tractor at a dealer yard10 
Worker in respirator, ear protection and hard hat11 
Combine unloading grain in the field12
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Whom we have worked with
Sites, search, advertising and film for companies in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus: the same work a foreign brand needs on arrival.
Industry
- heavy.kzheavy machinery
- uhm.uzheavy machinery, Uzbekistan
- Vector Qaztrailer dealer
- Jet-Ventindustrial ventilation
- LiftSpecStroylift equipment
- SSS IoTenergy metering, SCADA
- Dauran Groupvideo surveillance
- Roslestimber
- armad.byconstruction, Belarus
- stoneart.bystone, Belarus
- ecobmz.byindustrial plant, Belarus
- asu-sp.byengineering, Belarus
Consumer brands
- amirtea.uztea brand, Uzbekistan
- wellastore.uzcosmetics, Uzbekistan
- freshdoze.uzfresh juices, Uzbekistan
- Zhara.kzstoves and fireplaces
- Favorit Souvenirmedals and souvenirs
- Aurika Clinicfamily clinic, Almaty
- rosha.kzrecreation site
- atalas.kzcultural project
Video and film
- ERGindustrial filming on site
- KazMineralsindustrial filming on site
- Peschansky Repair-Mechanical Plantcorporate film
- Timber-frame house builderfilming and channels
- Sports centresPavlodar and Almaty
- Companies in Astanacorporate video
- Conferences and podcastsproduction
- Experts in law and business coachingcontent and channels
Ongoing
IKER, a furniture and joinery manufacturer in Almaty. We run their social channels, website and advertising, and the work continues month to month. Their projects start at $60,000–70,000, and the audience we speak to for them is architects, interior designers and builders.
What we don't promise
- Signed contracts in the first month.
- Lists of contacts we don't have.
- Holding or selling your product: that is what the distributors we find will do.
- Gambling, weapons, drugs, fur and leather: we turn these down at any budget.
Next step
Thinking about the region?
The Pilot month answers the question from inside the country: demand check, distributor map, first outreach, an honest go/no-go read.