The Batumi desk
Storage Routecore exists to put public figures on paper in a form a council member, a donor, or a citizen can question.
Storage Routecore started because too many public reports in Adjara were being assembled as slide exports bound with a cover. The numbers were often defensible. The pages were not. A sakrebulo member would photocopy a pie chart, lose the legend, and then accuse the finance office of hiding a residual category that had simply vanished in grey.
We opened a desk in Batumi so that the drawing, the suppression notes, and the printer checks happen in one place, close to the municipalities that still send packs by hand. The office is at Level 8, 39 Rustaveli Street, Batumi 6010. The Black Sea is not a metaphor in the work; it is the reason coastal municipalities ask for bilingual captions when a visiting mission arrives in the same week as the tourist season.
We are not Geostat. We do not replace an official statistics office. We sit with the people who already hold administrative registers and help them publish a volume those registers can actually support. When a comparison was promised in a speech and the file cannot carry it, we write that down. That habit is the closest thing we have to a method.
The practice takes a small number of commissions at a time. Yearbook season and the budget calendar are not abstract; they fill the same rooms. If we cannot finish a volume before your printer date, we say so in the first letter.
The people at the desk
Tamara Beridze
Tamara spent a decade inside a ministerial statistics unit before opening this desk. She still argues about chapter order as if the printer were waiting in the corridor.
Nino Kvirikashvili
Nino draws the charts. She keeps a greyscale printer next to her desk and will reject a turquoise series if it collapses into one muddy bar when copied for the sakrebulo.
Giorgi Tskitishvili
Giorgi writes the footnotes and checks that employment in chapter 3 uses the same register cut-off as employment in the annex. He used to file statistical complaints for a municipal audit office.