Fractional innovation leadership est. 2022

We turn "what if?"
into things people use
on a Tuesday.

Mutiny Labs provides fractional innovation leadership for organizations with ambitious ideas that are difficult to make real.

"We don't sell decks. We move into your office and ship a thing."
— our manifesto, in one line

Partners we've made things with.

↳ three decades, two worlds

Things we
have made.

All work Applied AI Design Social impact Cultural From the lab
Every project opens into a full case study. Explore the work ↓
PSI digital platform homepage Platform · 2025 PSI case study →

The public platform for a $100M+ capital coordination model, and the operations software that turns every message it receives into a tracked, assigned lead.

↳ 38 KB homepage · 0.41 s response · 2 languages
La Voz del Centro experiencia Cultural · 2026 La Voz del Centro case study →

The memory of a country, in its own voice: 20 years of oral history you can now ask, walk, and hear.

↳ 1,129 episodes · 46.8K searchable passages
El Archivo Vivo virtual museum gallery Cultural · 2026 El Archivo Vivo case study →

A living museum of Puerto Rico's Black memory: thirteen galleries you can walk through from any browser.

↳ 486 works · 13 galleries · VR ready
La Academia participation platform Social impact · 2026 La Academia case study →

The operating system for Fundación Rimas' youth academy: enrollment to measured impact, every consent accounted for.

↳ 122 youth · 21 municipalities · 114 surveys
Por la Comunidad submission portal Cultural · 2026 Por la Comunidad case study →

Archivo Negro opened its doors: a community submission pipeline where the archive grows from the people it's about.

↳ 100% human-reviewed · 2 languages
Listening Room private streaming Product · 2026 Listening Room case study →

A private, invitation-only streaming room for sharing youth-made music with funders, without ever handing anyone a file.

↳ 0 files delivered · 6 s revocation · every play logged
Shanghai marathon training monitor From the lab · 2026 Shanghai case study →

A marathon training monitor with the guts to tell an athlete to stop. AI grades every workout, rewrites the plan, and rewards the discipline to rest.

↳ 22-week campaign · 23 medals · 100% self-hosted
Cake Splatter 3D scene viewer From the lab · 2026 Cake Splatter case study →

A phone video becomes a photorealistic 3D scene you can publish on your own website the same afternoon.

↳ <15 min capture→scene · 120 fps · 100% local
Bad Bunny thematic evolution dashboard From the lab · 2025 Benito, Scored case study →

What happens when you score an artist's whole catalog the way an impact evaluator scores a program.

↳ 82 songs · 17 categories · 2 blind raters · live observatory

Some of our best work you won't find here. Much of our commercial work ships under our clients' names, not ours. Senior teams hire us precisely because we don't take the credit.

The long record.

↓ before the mutiny
2008 Mozilla · Firefox Download Day The campaign that broke the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours. Webby · Guinness World Record
2010s Hotel Indigo · IHG Multimillion-dollar concept→design→build→deploy program; the HD Touch App shipped to 60+ lobbies worldwide. award-winning · global
2010s Toyota Early applied-AI experimentation for Toyota social media campaigns, years before generative AI became mainstream. Applied AI · pre-LLM era
2010s Microsoft · Office 365 Localized campaign connecting the platform to local users in their own context. market activation
2010s Mima · "El Pozo" Executive producer of the singer's acclaimed album, proof the studio's culture work runs deeper than campaigns. executive producer · cultural
2016 juventudpr.org · IDJ Data observatory and 2,000+ org directory for PR youth development. Created for Boys & Girls Club; now part of PSI. sector authority
2008-2019 Pixelogic Founded and grew the agency to 2,000+ projects for clients like Toyota, Lexus, Microsoft, and Rums of Puerto Rico, then managed its acquisition. 20+ awards · first Google Certified Agency in the Caribbean · acquired

Three ways
we make things real.

01 · Projects

Projects

Special innovation projects, fee-for-service. Scoped, shipped, measured. The right shape when you know the outcome and need a senior team to deliver it.

02 · Leadership

Fractional CIO

C-level innovation leadership, available on retainer or hourly. We help leadership teams identify opportunities, make difficult decisions, align the right people, and carry the work through implementation.

03 · Ventures

Venture partnerships

Ventures and partnerships on equity or ROI terms. Where it makes sense, we co-build the new business with you: staffed, scoped, and shipped together.

How we work

Small teams. Senior people.
Working code by week three.

01

Sense

Pressure-test the brief. Find the real problem.

02

Frame

Three sharp bets. Build vs. buy vs. partner. Decide.

03

Prototype

Working code. Not slides. In users' hands by week three.

04

Pilot

In-market with real customers. Measure. Decision gate.

05

Hand off

Capability stays in-house. We turn off the lights.

Juan C. Sánchez (Gino), Founder of Mutiny Labs
Behind the mutiny

Juan C. Sánchez
(Gino).

Three decades redefining the communications business. The receipts are real: a Guinness World Record with Mozilla's Firefox Download Day, touch apps in 60+ Hotel Indigo lobbies worldwide, and Pixelogic, the agency he founded, grew past 2,000 projects, and sold.

Then, instead of retiring, he started over on purpose. Mutiny Labs works across two worlds: as a senior innovation partner to industry leaders and agencies, and as a strategic ally to organizations working in social impact and culture.

The commercial work brings scale and operational discipline. The cultural and social-impact work keeps the practice connected to people, place, and purpose. Each makes the other stronger.

Every engagement is led by one senior partner at the C-suite table — today, that partner is Gino, personally. The person who pitches the work is the person who does it: no account manager, no pyramid of juniors learning on your budget, no handoff once the ink dries.

Around that, Mutiny pulls in the specialists each problem requires — a creative director for one phase, an engineer for the hard part, a 3D artist for five shots — then dissolves the team when the work is done.

No sales pod. No permanent bench to feed. Just senior people on the problem.

3 decades
experience
20+
awards, Guinness to Webby
2,000+
career projects shipped
↳ one human (chasing six marathon majors) and one pitbull. plus three decades of people worth calling.
say hi

So, about that
hard problem.

We reply personally. A senior partner, not a sales pod. We'll tell you straight whether we can help.

Tell us a bit about you ↓
info@mutiny-labs.com
+1 888 449 4466
De-risking the innovation process
what brings you here?
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so, about that hard problem...

Let's build it.

A senior partner reads every message. You'll get a straight answer.