Nino Beridze
Former municipal accountant. She builds the category trees and sits with officers who still remember what a line item was for.
The practice
About the practice
We are a small analytic practice on Aghmashenebeli Street. Our craft is a second reading of the purchase ledger — categories, suppliers, and the stories the totals tell.
Adapterroutepoint began in 2019 after too many budget meetings in Imereti where last year’s buying was described from memory. Nino Beridze had closed municipal books for a decade. She knew the invoices existed. She also knew that nobody had time to group them by what was actually purchased.
The studio is not a software house and not an audit firm. We borrow habits from both — patience with ledgers, respect for an evidence trail — and we stop short of opinions we are not licensed to give. Our work ends when you can point at a map and say where the lari went.
Kutaisi is a deliberate address. Many of the organisations we serve buy locally, publish in Georgian, and sit a train ride from Tbilisi. Coming to Level 10 is easier than sending a year’s invoices to a distant consultancy that will never walk the storeroom. When records cannot leave a hospital or a plant, we go there.
We work in Georgian and English. Figures stay in the currency of the books. We name categories the way buyers talk — “winter salt”, “reagent kits”, “hired excavators” — rather than the way a chart of accounts numbers them.
Values we actually keep: we will refuse a file that looks like an investigation dressed up as analysis; we will say when the records are too thin to support a claim; we will not sell the same map twice under a new heading.
People who read the ledgers
Giorgi Kapanadze
Reads contract registers against invoices. Trained in Kutaisi; worked seven years in a construction buyer’s office before joining the studio.
Tamar Chkheidze
Turns the maps into language a board can use. Writes in Georgian and English. Insists the ugly figure appears before the meeting, not during it.