The practice began when a duty editor on Rustaveli asked a friend to sit through a Friday concert stream and say, out loud, why the picture held while the audience share fell. The friend brought paper because the monitors were already full. That sitting, repeated for a venue box and then for a transit desk watching passenger screens, became the Pekini Street desk.
We keep the work in Georgian and English. We do not claim a laboratory, a patent, or a method with a trademark. The method is slower than a status lamp: a named reader, a metric family, and ink that has to dry before it hangs.
Tbilisi is not a backdrop. The office is on Level 7, 43 Pekini Street, Tbilisi 0160, because that is where the boards are drawn and where out-of-town editors can find us after a marshrutka from the station. On-site sittings stay inside the city; we will not pretend a video call is the same as marking a sheet beside the talkback.
Clients are rooms that already collect live numbers: broadcasters, concert streams, arena bowls, a handful of energy night shifts. We turn down work that wants a login product built, and we turn down work that wants us to watch a feed until dawn. The values are small on purpose: one family of numbers per sitting, an after-note that admits mud, and a board a new shift can read without a briefing from us.
