For exporters · Alexey Reinsberg

Export without trade shows. A buyer asks an AI assistant — and it names you.

Markets for niche Russian goods exist: charcoal, spare parts, flour, pine nuts, saunas. Buyers in those markets are looking for suppliers. But a small producer cannot tour trade shows or keep dealers in ten countries. Today that is no longer needed: a buyer asks ChatGPT, Google or Perplexity, and the answer is built from sites that a machine can read easily.

30%of visits from AI assistants end in a contact — 4.6× the average
37.7%of ChatGPT visitors contact the IWH spare parts export site
15+countries buyers came from to the IWH site
0trade shows and ad budgets in our export cases

Yandex Metrica data from our sites, 1 June — 29 October 2026. Research →

How a foreign buyer finds a producer now

1

Asks a question

“Who supplies birch charcoal in 10 kg bags delivered to Beirut?” — in ChatGPT, Gemini or Google.

2

The assistant searches

It searches via Bing and Google and reads the pages it finds: specifications, terms, documents.

3

Names a supplier

The answer features whoever’s page answers the question most precisely. With a link.

4

The buyer writes

They arrive with a decision made, so 30% get in touch, not 6%.

Where buyers already write to our export sites from

Share of visits ending in a contact. IWH (spare parts) and Drova Nevy (charcoal and firewood). Country samples are small — a guide, not a forecast.

18%Türkiye
17%UAE
21.6%Azerbaijan
28.6%India
7.9%USA
50%Lebanon
19.2%Germany
13.3%Netherlands
10%Finland

A good fit if

  • You make a niche product that can be described by specifications
  • You can ship abroad yourself or through a partner
  • Buyers exist but you cannot reach them — no dealers, no trade shows
  • The product may be legally exported

What we do

1

Demand by country

What buyers of your product search for, in which languages, and who already answers them.

2

Pages for questions

Product × specification × country. Tables, terms, documents — what an AI assistant can quote.

3

An AI layer

Text in HTML, schema.org, llms.txt, robots.txt open to GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot. Indexing in Google, Bing and Yandex.

4

An open count

Analytics goals on call, WhatsApp, email and form. A monthly report: where people came from and who wrote.

Exporter questions

Can I start exporting without trade shows?

Yes. In our IWH and Drova Nevy cases, buyers from Türkiye, UAE, India, Lebanon and Germany came through search and AI answers. No trade shows or dealers were used.

How do I get into ChatGPT answers for foreign buyers?

Build pages in the buyer’s language that answer their question precisely: specifications, delivery terms, documents. The text must be in HTML, with schema.org markup, and the site indexed in Bing and Google. Nobody can guarantee a place in the answer, but this raises the odds considerably.

What if my niche is very small?

That helps. A narrow niche has few competitors in English, so the site gets into answers faster.

Which goods do you not work with?

Goods whose export is banned or restricted. We check this with you before starting.

How long until the first foreign enquiries?

First Google impressions usually appear 2–4 weeks after launch; the first enquiries in our cases came in months 1–4. No one can guarantee the timing.

Plan and support prices are fixed in each currency. Examples use the Bank of Russia rate dated
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