Nino Beridze
Founder; sits the first briefing
Nino spent nine years in FP&A inside a Tbilisi holding before opening the studio. She still reads the source map herself on every first pack.
People
A table on Rustaveli, and the packs that leave it
The studio exists because too many Georgian boards still receive a workbook in disguise. We draw the pages that can be read before the sitting starts.
Platform Flowhub opened after a winter of Thursday mornings in other people’s boardrooms. Nino was the person in the corner with the spare copies. The packs were long. The questions were short. The gap between them was the work.
We are not a software house. We are three people on Level 9, 42 Rustaveli Avenue, with a printer that can hold silver-grey ink and a cupboard of last month’s proofs. Clients are Georgian companies and a few regional groups with a sitting in Tbilisi. Sectors we already know well enough to ask the right first questions: wholesale, logistics, hospitality groups, and two family holdings whose shareholders live partly abroad and need English on the same page as Georgian.
How we work
We begin with the last pack, even if it is ugly. We do not begin with a blank template. Colour is rationed. Thresholds for any traffic-light mark must already exist in a board minute, or we draw the bar without the dot. Bilingual pages are set so that neither language looks like a caption stuck on afterwards.
We keep the relationship small. If a sitting needs a fourth person, we say the diary is full rather than add a stranger who has not seen the files.
What we value
A page that survives a question. A footnote that names the tab. A chair who can find margin without asking finance to lean over. Courtesy toward the person who closed the books at midnight. We do not claim a method with a name. We claim a table, a proof, and a revision round.
If you want to see the pages before you sit, look at the board pack gallery and then write for a sitting.
Who you sit with
Giorgi Kapanadze
Information designer
Giorgi draws the pages. He trained in graphic design in Tbilisi and refuses decorative maps, 3-D bars, and any chart that cannot be printed at A4 without losing a label.
Tamar Gelashvili
Source and footnotes
Tamar traces each number to a cell and writes the source line. If a figure cannot be found, it does not reach Giorgi’s desk.