Dubai · Meydan Free Zone — strategy, communications & growth

Strategy.
Narrative.
Growth.

Primus Narrative is a Dubai consultancy for founders, boards and CMOs. We design and operate marketing strategy, public and corporate communications, and digital growth — senior-led, AI-augmented, measured in revenue.

15+
years at senior brand & comms level
32M+
users on products we’ve led
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What we do
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§ 01 · Services

Six practices, one partnership.

We operate as a small senior partnership — no juniors billed as strategists, no decks made for the sake of decks. Each engagement is led directly by a founding partner and delivered by a curated team of operators.

01 · From positioning to growth architecture.

Marketing Strategy

We design marketing strategies that survive contact with reality — built on category insight, behavioural research, and commercial math, not slogans. Suited for founders, boards and CMOs who need clarity before they invest in media.

  • Positioning & messaging framework
  • ICP and jobs-to-be-done mapping
  • Go-to-market plan & channel mix
  • Marketing P&L and KPI model
02 · Reputation, narrative, influence.

Public & Corporate Communications

Strategic communications for executives, boards and high-stakes initiatives — from brand governance to crisis response. EU, UK, US and MENA track record, with direct experience advising governmental projects, commercial platforms and enterprise brands.

  • Corporate narrative & brand governance
  • Executive positioning and thought leadership
  • Crisis communications and issue management
  • Public affairs and stakeholder engagement
03 · Paid, organic, and everything in between.

Digital Growth & Performance

Full-stack digital promotion of products and services online — performance marketing, SEO, content engines, conversion optimisation and lifecycle automation. Operated by a team with hands-on engineering experience behind the systems.

  • Paid media (Meta, Google, LinkedIn, X)
  • SEO, programmatic content, AI search (AEO/GEO)
  • Landing pages and CRO
  • Lifecycle, CRM & marketing automation
04 · Agentic systems, in production.

AI-Powered Marketing Operations

We build and operate AI systems inside marketing teams — not demos. Agentic workflows for research, content, campaign ops and analytics that compress cycle time and raise the quality bar. Governed, measurable, and aligned with brand.

  • AI workflow design & implementation
  • Custom agents for content, research, ops
  • Data pipelines and analytics automation
  • AI governance, brand safety and ethics
05 · A voice that compounds.

Brand & Editorial

Brand identity, editorial systems, and executive voice. We help companies build a verbal and visual language that is unmistakable across a press release, a pitch deck, a landing page, and a LinkedIn post — for years, not launches.

  • Verbal identity and tone of voice
  • Editorial guidelines and content systems
  • Executive ghostwriting
  • Brand book and governance
06 · A thinking partner on call.

Board & Founder Advisory

Fractional and advisory engagements for founders, CEOs and boards entering new markets, raising capital, or rebuilding the marketing function. Confidential, senior, and commercially literate.

  • Market entry (GCC, EU, UK, US)
  • Due diligence and investor narrative
  • Marketing org design and hiring
  • Board-level reporting and review
§ 02 · How we work

A senior partnership, not an agency.

You meet the partners in the first call. The same partners lead the work. Three phases, measured in outcomes — not deliverables.

01

Diagnose listen.

We start every engagement with a structured diagnosis — leadership interviews, commercial review, brand audit. No recommendations before we understand the business.

02

Design decide.

We translate insight into a strategy document the board can sign: positioning, narrative, channel mix, P&L. One page of decisions, not fifty pages of slides.

03

Deliver measure.

We execute with a curated team and AI-augmented operations. Weekly rituals, a single dashboard, and a review cadence tied to commercial outcomes.

Strategy is useless if it remains on paper. We build the systems that make good strategy actually happen.
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§ 03 · Partners

The people you actually hire.

Two senior operators with complementary craft: a growth-focused CMO with deep operational experience, and a communications strategist who has advised governments and international PR networks.

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Founding partnerDubai · Kyiv
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01 · Founding Partner · Marketing & Growth

Slava Baranskyi

Growth-focused CMO, FCIM, and serial founder. 15+ years leading marketing strategy, brand building and automation across media, tech and fitness.

Slava is a Chartered Marketer (Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing) and Executive MBA candidate at IE Business School. He has led projects that attracted millions of users, generated 8-figure revenues, and built viral communities — including LIFEHACKER.RU (32M+ monthly users), Ukraine's first fully automated fitness club ecosystem, and the premium corporate media agency Palindrome. A CMO with an engineering mindset, he designs and operates agentic marketing systems in production rather than on slides.

  • FCIM — Chartered Institute of Marketing (Fellow)
  • Executive MBA candidate, IE Business School
  • IMD Leaders Program
  • Author, "Doubt Challenge" (Mann, Ivanov & Ferber)
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Founding partnerDubai · London
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02 · Founding Partner · Strategic Communications

Anna Pavlova

Senior communications strategist, 10+ years driving strategic narratives for high-stakes government and corporate initiatives across EU, UK and US markets.

Anna specialises in strategic communications, international relations, reputation and brand strategy, with additional focus on AI ethics. She has served as Strategic Communications Advisor to the Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Communications Expert to the Cabinet of Ministers, and PR & Marketing Lead for EMEA at FINN Partners (London). She now leads Strategy & Behavioural Intelligence at Co.Actor and advises clients on brand governance, crisis communications and stakeholder management.

  • Master's, Social Psychology — Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Ethics of AI — LSE Online
  • IMD Leaders Program
  • Former advisor to the Ministry of Culture & Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
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§ 04 · Location

Dubai. Meydan Free Zone.

Primus Narrative is registered and operates from the Meydan Free Zone in Dubai — a jurisdiction designed for international professional services firms, with 100% foreign ownership and full repatriation of capital and profits.

Office

Meydan Free Zone
Meydan Grandstand
Nad Al Sheba
Dubai, UAE

Hours

Mon — Fri
10:00 — 18:00 GST

By appointment on Saturday & Sunday

§ 05 · Contact

Tell us what you’re building.

Every enquiry is read by a founding partner. If there is a fit, we’ll propose a 45-minute briefing call — no decks, no pitch, just a conversation about the work.

Office

Meydan Free Zone
Dubai, UAE

Currently accepting new engagements — Q3 2026

We read every message and reply within one business day. All enquiries are confidential.