Metricvectorbase Analytics opened because Kutaisi sits between published figures and the people who must live with them. Imereti keeps inns, cellars, workshops, and counters. Tbilisi and the ministries keep yearbooks. Between those two rooms there is often no one whose job is to say whether a local number has a fair neighbour.
We are not a counting house. Clients arrive with counts already made. We are the practice that asks what those counts may be set against, and then draws the setting so a board can see it without a lecture.
Origin
The first studies were done for guesthouses that had been told, by a well-meaning visitor, that their occupancy was “behind the country.” The country, in those remarks, was a coastal average in August. Once the same months were set against Imereti houses of similar size, the winter looked ordinary and the argument changed. That habit — of refusing a flattering or unkind average that mixes unlike rooms — is still the house rule.
The eighth-floor room on Aghmashenebeli Street was taken because it is a walk from the markets and a climb from the river, and because a visitor who has carried a ledger up eight flights tends to know which question matters.
How we work
Every engagement begins with a letter that names the series, the years, and the question. No drawing starts until the reference set is accepted in writing. A second reader checks the axis against that letter. The bound note always contains a page that lists what the charts cannot say. We would rather send a thin study than a thick one that mixes unlike figures.
We read Georgian official publications, cooperative returns volunteered by the client, and the client’s own books. We do not buy gossip. We do not rank our clients in a shared table.
Values that show up on the page
- A benchmark is a neighbour, not a target invented to scold.
- A missing month is a hole, not a chance to smooth a line.
- English is used because the intake asked for it; the figures remain Georgian in origin and in consequence.
- The client owns the bound note. We keep a file copy for re-comparison and for the refund record, not for display.
If you want a desk that will tell a story the figures do not support, this is the wrong staircase.
