AI MKT RA Raimbek Iskendirov How to Make ChatGPT Recommend Your Business: The Rise of GEO Imagine a potential client in 2026. They aren’t scrolling through pages of Google search results anymore. Instead, they ask ChatGPT or…
SPT MDA MKT ECO RA Raimbek Iskendirov How a Bootstrapped Startup Hacked PR at LEAP in Saudi Arabia (Zero Budget Case Study) In early 2024, my team and I faced a classic startup dilemma. Our co-founder, Aidar Parzhanov, had the opportunity to attend LEAP in Riyadh…
AI ECO RA Raimbek Iskendirov AI Transformation 2026: An Analysis of the Voice Agent Market in Kazakhstan and the Rise of… The End of the “Talking Buttons” Era
DSN RA Raimbek Iskendirov The Q-Code and Neo-Ethno: How Naming in Kazakhstan Evolved from Hype to Deep Identity (2026… Over the past three years (2023–2026), the branding landscape in Kazakhstan has undergone a tectonic shift. We’ve moved past the…
MKT ECO RA Raimbek Iskendirov Is the Era of Review Bombing in Kazakhstan Over, or Is Protection Just for the Elite? Review bombing — the mass lowering of ratings — is a nightmare for any local business. For a long time, geo-services in the CIS responded…
AI ECO MKT RA Raimbek Iskendirov The Transition from SEO to GEO: How to Capture 15% of AI-Driven Traffic in 2026 Classic SEO is not dead, but it is certainly losing its monopoly. In my practice as an IT entrepreneur and marketing strategist in…
ECO SOC RA Raimbek Iskendirov Beyond the Stamp: A Founder’s Strategy to Digitizing Conservative B2B Markets In many developing economies, including Kazakhstan, we face a striking paradox: while fintech and government digital services are booming…
AI SCI ECO RA Raimbek Iskendirov An AI Video Startup Just Quadrupled Its Valuation to $5.4 Billion in Eight Months Higgsfield, an AI-powered video and image generation platform, closed a $400 million funding round today at a $5.4 billion valuation. Eight…
AI DSN MKT RA Raimbek Iskendirov How I Reclaimed My Digital Identity from AI and Search Engines in 60 Days A case study on “LLM Optimization” and Personal SEO in the age of ChatGPT and Gemini.
ECO ART SOC MKT DSN TCH RA Raimbek Iskendirov Why Your E-commerce Strategy in Kazakhstan Might Be Illegal: A Tobacco Industry Case Study In the world of IT consulting and high-stakes marketing, there is a fundamental rule: study the Code before you sketch the wireframes.
ECO RA Raimbek Iskendirov Kazakhstan’s 2026 Tax Shift: Why “Just Filing” Your Declaration is a High-Stakes Gamble Tax compliance in Kazakhstan is entering a new era of total transparency. Starting in 2026, the universal declaration system becomes a…
MKT RA Raimbek Iskendirov Zero-Click Search: How to Survive the “No-Click” Era in 2026 We’ve all seen it: you Google a quick question, and the answer appears right there, in a neat box at the top of the page. You get what you…
