From a ninth-floor desk on Rustaveli Avenue

Portal Layergrid Analytics is a small chart desk, not a factory of products. The name on the door is long because the work is specific: data visualization of portal engagement tracking — a record of how people actually read the civic, member, and workplace portals that have replaced the paper sheet in the lobby.

The desk sits at Level 9, 51 Rustaveli Avenue, Kutaisi 4600, above the evening noise of the avenue. We chose the ninth floor because the light is decent for drawing plates and because the people who keep Imereti’s portals can reach us without a trip they cannot explain to a chair.

How the work started

A library steward in Kutaisi asked a blunt question: the reading room filled after six, yet the catalogue portal looked abandoned. The usual argument was that “people do not like screens.” Giorgi sat through two evenings and watched the search box freeze on the old terminals. Nino drew a plate that showed dwell collapsing at the same minute, every night. Elene wrote a commentary a facilities committee could hear. The terminals were replaced; the evening hours stayed. We kept the desk.

That origin still governs the practice. We would rather spend a week at a counter than guess from a slogan. We would rather draw one honest plate than a wall of ornaments.

How we work with a steward

The named contact is the person who already answers for the portal. We do not require a project office. We do require permission to watch ordinary use, and we will walk away from a request that wants staff ranked or readers named. Plates leave this desk anonymised. Commentary is written so it can be read at a municipal table without a specialist translating.

When a portal serves a village sakrebulo as well as a city hall, we say so on the title plate. Imereti is not a single counter.

What we will not pretend

We do not install counting machinery as a monthly seat. We do not claim a ten-day window is a census of Georgia. We do not dress a ledger in the language of a sales pamphlet. If the observation is thin, the plate says the sample is thin.

Telephone +995 431 555 325. Write to info@portal-layergrid.digital. The avenue address is printed on every folio.