Beyond Inspect, Datagotchi Labs explores a range of individual projects focused on empowering individuals and organizations to navigate complex information landscapes and make better decisions. Each project addresses unique challenges through innovative, human-centered design, and each is a direct act of rebellion against the power of the Digital Oligarchy.

Counteroffer: Reclaiming Labor

Problem: Technical job candidates often feel disempowered by opaque and incomplete job requirements, leading to unemployment despite specialized training. This is a deliberate strategy by the platforms to maintain control over the labor market.

Solution: Counteroffer empowers rebels to make sense of job opportunities, fostering coordinated action against shared unemployment challenges. It provides a platform that uses data visualizations of skills and job requirements to connect candidates with employers, helping them reclaim their fair wage and their labor.

Key Functionality: This platform enables candidates to input diverse data, collaboratively address fragmented information, and build enhanced resumes that truly reflect their capabilities and potential.

Impact & Origin: Born from the founder’s own frustrating experience in a broken job market, Counteroffer provides essential tools for those unemployed and seemingly unemployable in today’s new job markets.

Collaborative Copilot: Reclaiming Your Tools

Problem: The increasing proliferation of generative AI systems has intensified concerns about effective and ethical integration. Organizations face significant challenges integrating these advanced systems safely and effectively into their operations, which reinforces their dependency on the very platforms that seek to control them.

Solution: Collaborative Copilot is a workflow design tool that enables safe and effective organizational AI integration. By providing a clear framework for human-machine collaboration, it ensures AI systems become valuable partners, not unpredictable replacements, and helps businesses transition from being vassals to becoming autonomous stakeholders in a new digital economy.

Key Functionality: This project supports visual workflow design for seamless human-machine collaboration arrangements between employees and AI systems, optimizing interactions and leveraging the unique strengths of both.

Impact & Origin: Inspired by Navy-sponsored research into Human-in-the-Loop systems, this tool adapts a proven military approach to mitigate AI integration risks in commercial markets. The aim is to help these businesses gain clarity and control over their own processes, paving the way for liberation from the Digital Oligarchy.

PMBoard: Reclaiming Purpose

Problem: Product development often suffers from misaligned stakeholder priorities and a fragmented understanding of the needs of end-users. This leads to products that serve the interests of the Digital Oligarchy—and not the people who actually use them.

Solution: PMBoard enables product leaders and researchers to collaboratively build product visions for unified decision-making, ensuring that the needs of the end-user are prioritized above all. It’s a tool for startups to reclaim their purpose and build the commons, not reinforce the platforms.

Key Functionality: It centralizes diverse inputs (UX research, market insights, and broader stakeholder intelligence) to help teams track, prioritize, and unify product scope and requirements throughout the entire product development lifecycle.

Impact & Origin: Created from the founder’s tech consulting experience, PMBoard provides a proven framework for clarity and alignment, fostering shared understanding in complex product initiatives, and ensuring startups are building the commons, not reinforcing the platforms.

Other Ideas

We’re always exploring new avenues where our expertise in sensemaking and human-centered design can make a difference. These projects represent a second wave of innovation, building upon the foundation of Inspect to expand our impact and create new revenue streams.

• Supply: A data visualization app for ethical shoppers and a related app for businesses to manage their supply chains based on metrics like labor safety and environmental impact.
• Community-driven public data repositories: Platforms for sensitive social impact reporting and urban activism, embodying ecological collaboration for our rebel hubs.