Usage-trend briefing

Who this sitting is for

The briefing is for people who already keep a trail of how a setup was arranged and how that setup was used — a clerk with door-mode sheets, a workshop lead with version stamps, a records officer with access counts. You do not need a drawing room of your own. You need a period you care about and a willingness to leave blanks where the source is silent.

What you leave with

You leave with a bound pack: title sheet, a list of sources, the plates themselves, and a short commentary in the margin of each plate. You also leave with a sitting. Nino walks the sequence in order. She will stop on a gap rather than talk across it. The result is not a slogan about your year. It is a picture of the window you named.

Scope

One configuration family (for example a single night-mode setting, a single form of access, a single version line) and one measurement window. A month is the usual window. A quarter is possible if the records are even. Two families in one pack is a different quote.

Included

• A first reading of the sample you send, with a written yes or no on whether plates can be drawn
• Marking of gaps, duplicates, and days that cannot be placed
• Chart plates drawn by Giorgi Tsereteli on paper stock we keep in the Gorgasali rooms
• Margin notes in Nino’s hand
• One sitting of up to two hours at the Tbilisi office, or a posted pack plus a timed call of the same length
• One round of small corrections if a source was misread, not if you later wish the window had been different

Excluded

• Writing new configuration, or changing anyone’s setup
• Filling missing days from memory or from a neighbouring week
• A standing watch on future usage
• Copies of your original records kept after the sitting, unless you ask us in writing to hold a file copy for a named period

How the work runs

1. You write to the table and describe the records. A sample of a few days is enough for the first look.
2. We answer with a yes, a no, or a request for a cleaner extract. If yes, we send a written estimate.
3. You send the full window. Elene Mchedlidze logs what arrived and what is still missing.
4. Nino marks the sequence. Giorgi draws. If a plate cannot be finished without guessing, that plate is held back and you are told.
5. You sit with the pack, or it is posted. Questions that fit the window are answered in the room. New windows are a new briefing.

Preparation

Send records as you keep them. Paper scans, ledgers, exported tables — we will say which we can read. Do not summarise the story for us in advance; the plates should come from the counts, not from the morale of the week. Name the configuration family in plain words (“night latch on Gate B”, “reprint count on the counter form”).

Constraints

We work in English and Georgian at the table. The printed commentary is in English unless you ask otherwise before drawing starts. We will not take a briefing whose source we cannot see. If a legal hold forbids copies leaving your building, the sitting can be done from plates drawn on your premises by arrangement; that is priced as a visit, not as the ordinary office sitting.

Price basis and next step

From 1,800 GEL for a single family and a one-month window with up to six plates. Extra families, extra months, and extra plates are listed on the estimate. A deposit of one third holds the place in the drawing queue. To begin, send a note with the kind of records you keep and the window you want read.