THE MINT LAB
Where ideas evolve...
The Mint Lab is the research and development division of Mint Creative Studios, our internal playground for creative experimentation, rapid prototyping, and AI research.
Featured R&D Projects
Knod AI – Presence Infrastructure for Human Connection
A lightweight, no-download system that uses AI to facilitate intentional connections in physical spaces — empowering hosts, venues, and attendees to unlock real-time engagement.
CodeMend – Production Errors, Explained and Fixed
Catches errors wherever the code runs: browsers, Node and Express backends, React Native apps, or anything that can fire a webhook. It reads the actual source to work out what broke, then either opens a pull request with the fix or writes a prompt you can paste into whatever you built with.
MintVerse – A Neurodivergent Mind, Running as a World
A private world with ten agents living in it. Each one has their own Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and blog, and they post about the work happening on the machine as it happens.
Ampe Game AI – Cultural Heritage Gaming
A digital AI recreation of the Ghanaian cultural game Ampe.
ZIZU – A 3-in-1 Interactive Magazine
A magazine you read, watch and listen to. Student storytelling in print, with QR codes that open behind-the-scenes footage and an AI narration of every story for anyone who would rather hear it.
The Watcher – Claude Code and Codex, Splitting the Work
Built so Claude Code and Codex could work on the same codebase together and split tasks between them. They talk on a local message board, and a shell script watches it and taps each one on the shoulder when the other has said something.
AI Clone Development – Faculty Avatars & Conversational Clones
An experimental project focusing on AI-powered faculty avatars and conversational clones for higher ed institutions.
Let the Dogs Swim – Autonomous Environmental Drone
AI-driven drone and submarine hybrid for environmental monitoring and ocean plastic detection.
ClipForge – Campaign Video, On Brand, At Volume
Turns one long source video into a batch of platform-ready variants that still sound like the brand: tone rules, brand assets, captions and per-platform framing applied across every cut, rather than reapplied by hand each time.
Team Insights – Assessments In, An Action Plan Out
Built for Chicago Innovation's Intergenerational Teams in Action programme. Companies already assess their people and then file the results. This reads those assessments together and produces one plain-language plan a manager can act on.
AquaCare – A Care Bed That Becomes a Bath
Pressure ulcers strike around 2.5 million Americans a year, kill an estimated 60,000 of them, and are largely preventable. AquaCare is a design and clinical research study for a bed that converts into a sealed tub, so a bedridden patient can be properly bathed without ever leaving it.
🧠 The Mint Lab is where applied creativity meets advanced research, every experiment shapes the next generation of intelligent, human-centered systems.