A counting-room on Aghmashenebeli Avenue
The practice started with a depot supervisor who was tired of arguing from memory about tea bays, and a buyer from Adjara who kept seasons in a ruled book. The pictures came later.
The name on the masthead is Stack Layerbase Analytics because that is the name the three of us agreed to print. The work is inventory planning: looking at what a warehouse is holding, drawing it so a buyer can see it, and agreeing the next orders. Visualization here means printed pictures of stock — bars, floor sketches, seasonal curves — not a product you log into.
Nestan spent twelve years as a supervisor in a dry-goods depot. She left when she realised the arguments about “we never run out of sugar” were always won by whoever spoke last, not by whoever had counted. Giorgi kept purchase books for a grocer chain that stretched from Batumi to Kobuleti, where tourist weeks and citrus arrivals never landed on the same Tuesday. Lela joined after they brought her a stack of messy tables and asked whether the slow bays could be shown as a map a picker would actually look at.
We work in Georgia. Clients are mostly family depots, independent shops, and importers who take goods through Poti or the road from Turkey. We will travel for an aisle walk when the fee covers it. We will refuse work that is really a request to bless a purchase already decided.
The values are plain. Counts before opinions. Lead times as they are, not as the vendor promised in March. A mild sentence on the sheet when a favourite SKU is dead, because the owner still has to live with the shelf. We keep the records we are given for the length of the engagement and then return or destroy copies as the privacy notice describes.
If you want a sitting, write to the desk. If you want to know how a cycle runs before you spend a lari, read the planning cycle.
Nestan Beridze
Counts and aisle walks
Learned stock by walking Gldani racks before dawn receiving. She still starts a review at the dock, not at the office table.
Giorgi Kapanadze
Purchase books and seasons
Wrote buying calendars for grocers who had to feed Batumi in August and then sit through a thin September. He distrusts a plan that ignores the ferry.
Lela Maisuradze
Draws the pictures
Trained as a print illustrator. She treats days of cover like a weather chart: thick ink for risk, thin lines for quiet bays.