A scientific team, building for clients since 2005.
Mathematicians, computer scientists and social scientists in León, Mexico, working in two practices: stakeholder consensus for projects that impact communities, and software and data science for research teams.
C3 with CCM-UNAM colleagues at the Virtual Museum of Mathematics opening, 2024
Our story
C3 began in early 2005 to help projects and programmes stand on solid social and environmental ground.
The founding team came from a strong academic background, mainly in mathematics and computer science. That let us build our own methods and analysis tools, starting from the measurement of perception. Over the years our research and development team has created a range of consulting tools adapted to what our clients need, including GUIDE for finding opinion groups in survey data.
In 2014 we opened an area for scientific computing and data analysis, now C3 Idea. It has focused mainly on bioinformatics and genomics, where our strengths complement biology-led research teams in academia and industry.
Today C3 is two practices sharing one team and one method: model the problem properly, then build what the client can actually use.
Two practices, one team
C3 Consensus · since 2005
Stakeholder consensus and social licence for projects that impact communities: social proofing, GUIDE consensus workshops and Root chaining.
C3 Idea · since 2014
Research and development capacity for R&D teams: bioinformatics, scientific software and data analysis, from model to deployed code.
Why teams work with us
Scientific training
Professional consultants and developers with scientific training, bringing perspectives from a range of specialists to the same problem.
Our own methods
Tools we built ourselves, from GUIDE opinion-group detection and Root chaining to algorithm design, implementation and optimisation, applied to the case in hand rather than adapted from a product.
Client-oriented process
We treat your challenges as our own and adapt to your team: when work is urgent we add people, and when the project needs a skill nobody foresaw at the start, we bring it in.
Team
Esteban Jacques
Founder, Head of Social Impact
Carlos Angulo
Founder, Head of Development
Fernando Fontove
Partner, Head of Research
Abraham Solís
Partner, New Technologies
José Ibarra
Data Scientist & Consultant
Gonzalo Montalván
Senior Consultant
Fernando Fimbres
Senior Developer
Anton Pashkov
Developer
Selected work
Sinclair Lab, Harvard Medical School
GeneFinder, a platform for discovering small peptides of medical interest in the human genome. 2015–18
Mexican genomic surveillance consortium
Analysis platform for SARS-CoV-2 variant detection and tracking in Mexico. 2020–23
Cinvestav Irapuato
Bioinformatics research and development, including specialised databases and artificial intelligence. 2022–23
CCM-UNAM, Morelia
Algorithm design and implementation for co-occurrence network analysis of metagenomic data. 2022–25
Sociedad Matemática Mexicana
Biomathematics applications for the Virtual Museum of Mathematics, from content research to UX, implementation and support. 2022–25
The Virtual Museum of Mathematics credits the C3 Idea team, 2024
Publications and talks
2025
Topological data analysis captures horizontal gene transfer in antimicrobial resistance gene families among clinically relevant bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology 16:1461293. With CCM-UNAM and Cinvestav.
2023
Invited talk on academia–industry collaboration, 56th Congress of the Mexican Mathematical Society.
2020
Residue Cluster Classes: a unified protein representation for efficient structural and functional classification. Entropy 22(4):472.
2020
Protein–protein interactions efficiently modelled by Residue Cluster Classes. IJMS 21(13):4787.
Patent
Co-authors of a patent on sequence alignment to graph references.
Invited talk, 56th Congress of the Mexican Mathematical Society, 2023
Work with the team.
By project or embedded in your team, for research software or for consensus.