IT Caravan is a marketplace of IT services in Uzbekistan: a catalogue of vetted contractors with ratings, project histories and verified reviews, plus matching by a task described in plain words. For the client the service is free. It is a Syntra Systems product, and it grew out of a problem of my own — finding contractors in a city where I knew nobody.
Key takeaways
My name is Daniil Belyaev and I founded Syntra Systems. In the spring of 2026 I moved to Tashkent and opened an IT company here. An ordinary working task appeared almost at once: find designers and specialists in particular technologies, meet the local IT companies and simply understand who works on this market.
I was sure that somewhere there was a single catalogue with a ranking of developers and search by technology, team size, industry and client reviews — such platforms exist in almost every country. It turned out that here the search works differently. The information is scattered across websites, Telegram channels, social networks and personal contacts, and you assemble the picture of the market piece by piece.
The question that grew out of this was simple: why, in a country where IT grows faster than many industries, does a client have no single entry point into that industry?
To be fair, this is not empty ground. IT Park maintains a public register of residents, Uzbek companies appear in international directories, and some teams are visible in professional communities and at conferences.
What is missing is different: a service where you search by task rather than by name — by service, city and budget, with project histories, a rating and verified reviews in one place. That is the search we did not find, and that is what we started building.
The scale of the industry makes the gap visible. According to the National Statistics Committee, the export of services by IT Park participants reached $392.5 million in January-June 2026, $90.3 million more than in the same period a year earlier. An industry selling abroad at that scale is still poorly described at home for the buyer.
Look at how a client searches today: they ask friends, post in industry Telegram chats, type "website development Tashkent" into a search engine and land on an advert rather than on the best offer. That search yields two or three random companies and no way to compare them — not by experience in the industry, not by reviews, not by the budgets they usually work in.
All four sides lose, each in their own way.
The last point is the most expensive for the industry. The client picks not the stronger engineers but the clearer market: the difference here is in the availability of information, not in qualifications.
It is needed where the client should not have to know the stack. Nobody should be required to know the difference between Flutter and React Native, or when a DevOps engineer is needed rather than an architect. They should be able to describe their task.
On itcaravan.uz this takes three steps.
| Step | What you do | What the service does |
|---|---|---|
| Describing the task | You write it in your own words, with no technical terms | Takes the request and asks clarifying questions |
| Working out requirements | You answer questions about the goal, the scope and the budget | Assembles a short specification |
| A shortlist of companies | You compare and choose | Explains each recommendation: experience in your industry, rating, meeting deadlines |
Example A request such as "a mobile app for food delivery" or "implement a CRM in a construction company" is enough to start: the assistant works out the rest.
What the matching does not do is vet a company for you. The shortlist is a starting point: after it come the conversation, work in your industry and a carefully read contract. The model shortens the path from "I do not know who to look for" to "there are three companies worth talking to", and there its job ends.
The catalogue is the other half of the service, for those who prefer to choose for themselves.
Only companies checked by a moderator get into the catalogue. That is a matter of principle: an unvetted list would reproduce the very problem the service was built to solve.
When we started talking to local studios, nearly every one told the same story: "we can build good products, but outside the country nobody knows us." A verified profile answers exactly that — it makes a company's work visible to someone looking for a contractor, not only to someone who already knows its name.
For a young team it is a way to stand alongside the well-known ones: the rating and the reviews are built from project outcomes rather than from the size of an advertising budget. For a company with strong work it is a way to show it where people are looking, rather than where it happens to sit.
The terms of listing and the sections for companies are described on the site itself, under "For partners". We promise neither traffic nor a flow of enquiries here: the service is young, and any figures on that score would be invented.
What makes a profile useful is visible in how it is read. A client looks at work in their own industry, the size of the team, the stack and the budgets the company usually works in. A profile with no project histories and only general wording does not beat a website — it repeats it, so the entry is worth filling in as seriously as a commercial proposal.
A catalogue shortens the search but does not replace due diligence. Here is the minimum worth going through before signing a contract.
The most common failure is not the choice of contractor but the absence of a clear brief. What such a document should contain is covered in our piece on writing a specification for an IT project, and when it is worth calling in an outside team at all is covered in our piece on the tasks of IT consulting.
Watch separately for the signs that usually precede trouble: a price quoted without a single question about the task, a refusal to name the team, a readiness to start tomorrow with no discussion of scope, a contract with no acceptance clause. None of them is a verdict, but each is a reason to ask a few more questions before paying anything up front.
The project is developing: in July 2026 a "Careers" section with vacancies from IT companies appeared on the site. Next come more verified profiles, fuller reviews and a more transparent rating.
What we do not promise is that a catalogue will change the market by itself. Infrastructure does not replace the work: companies still have to deliver good projects and clients still have to read the contract. The catalogue removes one loss, though the most galling one: the time spent finding out who exists at all.
If in a few years a foreign company weighing up outsourced development considers Uzbekistan as calmly as it considers other countries with a strong engineering tradition, the job is done. Why the country ended up on that list at all is covered separately, in our piece on what makes Uzbekistan attractive for an IT business.
Syntra Systems is an IT company from Tashkent and an IT Park resident, No. 3312. We build IT Caravan as our own product rather than as contract work: the same approaches as in client projects, except that the mistakes land on us first.
For clients our work starts where the choice of contractor ends: framing the task, architecture, launch and ongoing support. On the technical support page the nearest services are support of working systems from $700 a month and project development from $1,500 a month.
And if you are an IT company in Uzbekistan and want to be found by task rather than by name, set up a profile in the catalogue. This is the case where a shared service brings more than the tidiest website of your own.
Let’s discuss your project
Tell us what you need, and we will estimate the timeline and cost and suggest a solution.
For clients it's free. You describe the task, receive a shortlist of companies and negotiate with them directly, with no intermediary; listing terms for IT companies are in the ‘For Partners’ section.
As a starting point. The matching narrows the field down to a few companies worth talking to, but it doesn't vet them for you: after that you still need a conversation, cases from your industry, and a carefully read contract.
Through the "For partners" section of the site, where the listing terms and the sections for companies are described. Only companies checked by a moderator enter the catalogue — without that condition the list would reproduce the very problem of an opaque market.
The register answers the question of who belongs to the technology park, and it is an official source. The catalogue answers a different question — who to give a specific task to: it has filters by service, city and budget, project histories, a rating and verified reviews. One does not replace the other.
Yes. Besides the company catalogue the site has a "Specialists" section and a "Careers" section with vacancies from IT companies, which appeared in July 2026. The same site also holds a knowledge base, an events calendar and a market section.
Syntra Systems, an IT company from Tashkent and IT Park resident No. 3312. We build the service as our own product rather than contract work, and we say plainly what we don't promise: traffic or a flow of leads to the companies in the catalogue.
