A handcrafted solid oak case and black-and-gold cards for building relationships. It offers an elegant alibi for asking deep questions and turns time spent together into real conversation, entirely analog.
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Often the problem is not a lack of topics. The hardest part is asking the question that opens a conversation.— Marcin Jamro, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Creator of Odoardo™ · entrepreneur, author, scientist and programmer
In private life and at work alike, people can know each other for years and still keep returning to the same conversations. Not for lack of topics, but because nobody knows how to begin a real one.
Odoardo Alibi™ gives you that beginning. The card asks the question, the image helps you find the answer, and awkwardness and silence fade away. What remains is curiosity, attention and time given to another person. All of it in analog form — no phone, no app.
A real conversation needs no occasion. It needs a beginning — and an object that offers it with grace. A handcrafted solid oak case, thick cards of black mass-dyed paper, gilding you can feel under your fingertip and abstract, minimalist illustrations make a distinguished pretext for conversation and an alibi for asking deep questions.
This is neither a party game nor a fortune-telling deck. Odoardo Alibi™ is 50 cards with deep questions and 50 cards with metaphorical illustrations. The cards rest in a handcrafted solid oak case, with an engraved dedication hidden on the underside of its magnetic lid. The card asks a question. The image helps you say what is hard to put into first words. The conversation carries on by itself.
The card asks a question, and an illustration that resonates with you helps you answer. Here we show sample pairs — at the table, you choose the image for your answer.
No points, no turns, no wrong answers, no winners and no losers. Just a deck of questions, a table spread with a gallery of illustrations and as much time as you wish.
You lift the lid and lay both decks side by side. Opening the case is the first gesture of the evening, and it gives the conversation its place.
The question deck lies face down. You turn over one card and, as host, read the question aloud so everyone at the table can hear it.
All the illustrations are spread across the table. While listening to the question, each person picks the card that resonates with them. Nothing is left to chance — people decide.
You answer holding your illustration. The card asks the question, and the image lifts its weight, making it easier to talk about what usually goes unsaid.
Odoardo Alibi™ is genuine solid oak, black mass-dyed paper and three-dimensional gilding. It is an object for years, and a personal engraving hidden under the lid can make it a keepsake of important moments, milestones and anniversaries.
Every copy is made from natural wood with a grain all its own. The solid form and a precise neodymium magnet closure turn opening the case into a small ritual.
The thick black paper has no white edges and stays black even in cross-section. Its matte finish is pleasant to hold, velvety under the fingers, and keeps the depth of black on every side.
The raised gold foil is more than a print. It catches sunlight and candlelight, stands out strikingly against the black ground, gives depth to the abstract illustrations and remains clearly perceptible under the fingertips.
In the bespoke edition, a Odoardo Soul™ microchip can be hidden inside the case. A tap of a phone then opens a digital world prepared especially for your brand and starts a text or voice conversation — without disturbing its analog character, with no cables and no charging.
Odoardo Alibi™ has no need to shout. It works quietly, at dinner tables and in drawing rooms. It is best described by the people who have already opened the case.
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The card box is beautiful, and I already know it will keep us company on many evenings. It is the perfect way to put the phone down for a while, sit together and talk.
The whole experience is exceptional — from the very first moment you can tell it is a premium product. The box is beautiful, the cards are refined, and the pairing of black and gold ties it all together.
I am usually the one asking other people questions, so I was curious what it is like to be on the other side. The cards hit the mark, and I heard words I would never have heard over an ordinary dinner.
Odoardo Alibi™ helps organizations build relationships that go beyond exchanging business cards. Within a team it opens a safe conversation, at an event it breaks down distance, and as a corporate gift it carries the brand's values long after it has been handed over.
For clients, partners and employees, instead of yet another logo gadget. A bespoke edition can carry your brand mark, an individual engraving and a digital soul, so the gift stays in memory for longer. Bespoke questions and illustrations are prepared separately, as an individually priced Odoardo Atelier™ commission.
At conferences and galas, Odoardo Alibi™ turns chance neighbors at a table into a conversation. Instead of awkward silence or small talk, guests get a concrete reason to ask about something that genuinely interests them. And they have an alibi for it: “the card is asking.”
For board meetings, strategy sessions, onboarding new people and work on organizational culture. The cards help people talk about perspectives and needs without workshop jargon, while adding something that holds attention and sparks the imagination.
Choose the standard or the bespoke edition for your company, your institution or your private use. Both share the same artisan quality and attention to detail.
Does your space need something more?
We can design and prepare a solution made specifically for you.
Ships within 5 business days of receiving the dedication. The objects in the photos are real. We edit the photos with artificial intelligence tools, and the scenes and interiors are visualizations. The product description is binding — where we use AI.
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Essays on the art of real conversation. For those who prefer closeness to publicity and know the best questions often come only once the screens go dark.
Odoardo Alibi™ is a handcrafted solid oak case holding black-and-gold cards for building relationships — a tool that takes a conversation where it might never have gone on its own. The standard edition can be ordered from a single copy, with an engraving under the lid and gift wrapping. The bespoke edition is made for a brand, an event or a special occasion.
Odoardo Alibi™ is a handcrafted oak case with black-and-gold conversation cards. It helps you start a meaningful conversation at a private or business meeting.
No. Odoardo Alibi™ is entirely analog. Participants answer the question the card asks, drawing inspiration from the illustrations, at their own pace and without a screen.
Odoardo Alibi™ works at the dinner table, at team gatherings and as a lasting gift that builds relationships, in private and professional life alike.
Yes. The bespoke edition includes an engraving on the lid, a gilded logo on the back of the cards and a special welcome card. Through Odoardo Atelier™ we can also prepare questions and illustrations dedicated to your brand.
You will find the price including VAT in the configurator on this page. We ship the standard edition within 5 business days of receiving the dedication, and delivery within Poland is included.
Of course. Even a single copy of the standard edition carries an individual engraving on the underside of the lid, which makes it a keepsake for years.
The case holds 100 cards: 50 question cards and 50 metaphorical illustrations. The card asks the question and the image helps answer it — the same card paired with a different illustration takes the conversation somewhere else, so the deck is not exhausted after one evening.
Yes, in the bespoke edition. A microchip then goes into every case in the series, and the recipient brings a phone close to talk with your brand's digital soul. You pay for it once, with your order — no subscription.
No. It is bookbinding gilding: raised gold foil pressed onto black mass-dyed paper. The foil catches candlelight, gives the illustrations depth and stays perceptible under your fingertip.
Each sense works on its own. Together they create a shared experience of place.
Odoardo Soul™
Touch · The space recognizes context and responds.
Odoardo Alibi™
Hearing · The space gives people a reason to truly meet.
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Sight · The space gains a changing, curated identity.
Odoardo Lens™
Memory · The space remembers the experience and invites a return.
Odoardo Space™
Presence · The space receives a unique address in the digital world.
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