# Celaya Solutions Research

> Celaya Solutions Research is an independent research lab and consultancy in El Paso, Texas, founded in 2024 and run by Christopher Celaya. It builds AI systems that make data coherent: industrial fault detection and documentation; clinical, legal and civic records; agents, MCP servers and apps; large archives; search that cites its source; and model and safety evaluation. Every answer shows the source it came from and a person makes the call. Work is done in English and Spanish.

Christopher Celaya spent twelve years in industrial electromechanical systems, hyperscale data center operations and medium-voltage switchgear manufacturing before building software. That background shapes the work: keep source documents and revisions visible, record every change, and leave consequential decisions with a person. Work starts with a free call, then a fixed-price diagnostic of up to 3,000 dollars, then a separately scoped build or pilot, then a documented handover. Consulting outside a build is 125 dollars an hour. Email hello@celayasolutions.com.

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## What we do

- [Equipment that warns before it fails](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-industrial): Industrial and manufacturing. Fault warnings read from drawings, live telemetry and maintenance history, hours ahead, with the evidence cited. Vendor manuals searchable by page and revision. Plant data captured read-only into one record, and the software never touches a breaker.
- [Records that check themselves](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-records): Clinical, legal and civic. Workflow and evidence systems for a specialty practice, a case file or a public record. Every entry links to its source, conflicts are flagged with the evidence attached, every change is logged, and the physician, attorney or clerk makes the decision.
- [Agents that work across your tools](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-agent): Agents, MCP servers and apps. One agent across market data, brokerage, accounting, files and work boards that acts only through the actions you configure and records what it did. The MCP servers that connect a model to the software you already run, and the web or iOS app around it.
- [Large archives, verified and answerable](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-data): Archives and large data. Billions of records mirrored to disk, checked file by file against a manifest and rebuilt to answer in milliseconds, each answer stamped with its snapshot. Historical collections searchable with the scanned page attached, and turned into new work that still traces to the record.
- [Search that cites its source](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-search): Search. Questions across approved manuals, procedures, policies and records, answered with the document, page and revision, and a plain answer when the documents do not say. In English, Spanish or both.
- [Models tested before they are trusted](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-evaluation): Model and safety evaluation. Before an agent gets more autonomy or a model goes into production, measure how it behaves: contained scenarios with the pressure stated, a fixed scoring rule, every transcript kept, misses written next to hits. Architecture experiments state a claim that could fail.
- [Other problems](https://celayasolutions.com/services#catalog): Intake and back-office automation, bilingual work instructions and staff training have also been scoped. A diagnostic settles whether something is worth building.
- [Free community teaching](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-civic): The lab's community talks and classes are free.
- [Ways to engage](https://celayasolutions.com/hire#options): A build delivered with source code, a hosted or licensed system with written terms, or consulting at 125 dollars an hour outside a build.

## Who this is for

- [Industrial and manufacturing](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-industrial): Maintenance, reliability, quality and operations teams in plants, data centers and switchgear shops, in English, Spanish or both.
- [Clinical, legal and civic](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-records): Specialty medical practices, law offices and public agencies, and any team reviewing forms, inspection records, testimony or archives where the entries have to agree with each other and with a source.
- [Agents, MCP servers and apps](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-agent): Specialists whose day spans several systems: market data, brokerage, accounting, files, work boards, field or fleet tools. Also teams that want a model connected to their own software, or need the app around it.
- [Archives and large data](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-data): Archives, libraries, researchers and companies holding large datasets that are slow to query, hard to verify, or one outage away from being out of reach.
- [Search](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-search): Any team working from approved documents: manuals, procedures, policies, contracts and records, in English, Spanish or both.
- [Model and safety evaluation](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-evaluation): Teams about to give an agent tools, money or more autonomy, and teams choosing a model or architecture for a specific job.
- [Readers studying border manufacturing](https://celayasolutions.com/border-manufacturing-research): research context for the El Paso and Santa Teresa corridor.
- [Community learners and teaching hosts](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-civic): free community talks and classes.
- [Founders and researchers](https://celayasolutions.com/research): published papers, case studies and research instruments.

## Where we work

- Based in El Paso, Texas
- On site in the El Paso and Ciudad Juarez region, remote anywhere; travel and working language are agreed for each engagement

## Background

- Twelve years of industrial electromechanical experience before software.
- Hyperscale data center operations, medium-voltage switchgear manufacturing at a Fortune 500 manufacturer, and border manufacturing in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
- That experience shapes the work: source traceability, observable system behavior, operating records and human review.
- NFPA 70E and OSHA 10 certified.
- Electrical engineering coursework at The University of Texas at El Paso; computer science coursework at El Paso Community College.
- Author of the Celaya Chain Protocol whitepaper, the Earned Autonomy Architecture preprint, the CORRIDOR field paper, the technical reports CSR-2026-001 and CSR-2026-002, and the combinatorics preprint proving that the covering number C(16,5,3) is at least 62.
- Founded Celaya Solutions Research, an independent research lab and consultancy, in El Paso, Texas, in 2024.

## Questions and answers

- Q: Who is a good fit?
  A: Teams whose problem is data that does not agree with itself: equipment telemetry that contradicts the work orders, manuals in several revisions, patient or case records split across systems, a business spread across many tools, an archive too large to query. You need sources you are allowed to use, a clear question and someone who can judge the answers. Industrial and operations teams are the most common. We also work with medical practices, law offices, public agencies, archives, specialists who run their work through many tools, and teams that need an agent or model tested before they trust it.
- Q: What happens on the first call?
  A: It is free and takes about thirty minutes. We talk through the problem, who has it, what data exists and what would count as fixed. You leave knowing whether a diagnostic makes sense.
- Q: What does the diagnostic cost, and what do I get?
  A: A fixed price, agreed in writing, never more than $3,000. You get a written finding: the data you have, the gaps, how a solution would be judged, and a recommendation on what to build. Sometimes the recommendation is to build nothing, and the finding says why.
- Q: Is a pilot or build possible after that?
  A: Yes. It is a separate decision with its own scope and price. Nothing in the diagnostic commits you to it.
- Q: How do we know it worked?
  A: Before a build starts we agree on real questions, the sources that count and what a correct answer looks like. The build is judged against those: the right source and revision, warnings that arrive before the fault, actions taken only through the configured gates, honest unanswered cases, and how much reviewer time it saves. Targets go in the scope so both sides are measuring the same thing.
- Q: Can it work in English and Spanish?
  A: Yes. Bilingual search and answers are a normal part of the work. The scope names the controlling language for each document and who reviews specialist terms. A translated answer points back to the approved original.
- Q: Where does the data run?
  A: On your hardware, on ours, or with a hosted provider. Local-first is the default preference. The scope says exactly what runs where and which providers, if any, touch your data.
- Q: Who owns what?
  A: Your data stays yours. A one-time build is delivered with its source code. A hosted or licensed system has its own usage terms and may include components Celaya keeps. The agreement lists deliverables, reusable parts and any third-party licenses.
- Q: What support is included?
  A: Whatever the scope says: handover, documentation, review milestones and any maintenance. Hosted systems carry a recurring fee, and infrastructure costs are stated separately. Response times and change requests are agreed in writing.
- Q: What happens when we stop?
  A: For a build, you already have the code and the documentation. For a hosted system, the agreement sets export formats, the transition work and how long access and data are kept. Both are settled before work starts, not at the end.

## Pages

- [Home](https://celayasolutions.com/): The six kinds of system the lab builds, the eight deployments running in public, how an engagement runs, who does the work and the research behind it.
- [Questions, answered](https://celayasolutions.com/faq): The first call, the diagnostic and its price, how success is judged, data handling, ownership, support and what happens when an engagement ends.
- [Services](https://celayasolutions.com/services): Six kinds of system, each with who it is for, what you get, what you bring and what is not included: industrial and manufacturing; clinical, legal and civic records; agents, MCP servers and apps; archives and large data; search that cites its source; and model and safety evaluation.
- [About](https://celayasolutions.com/about): Christopher Celaya's twelve years of industrial work, the habits it left, the working stack and the operating rules.
- [Contact](https://celayasolutions.com/hire): Request a call, the diagnostic price ceiling, and the three ways to engage.
- [How we work](https://celayasolutions.com/onboarding): Free call, fixed-price diagnostic up to 3,000 dollars, separately scoped build or pilot, documented handover, and what the client brings at each step.
- [Work](https://celayasolutions.com/work): Trinidad, Morpheus, WITNESS, GREYBOOK, ATRIUM, VERDICT, ARK and the Alignment Experiment, and a worked example of a source-linked answer.
- [Morpheus: custom agent and trading desk](https://celayasolutions.com/case-studies/morpheus): A private client build by Christopher Celaya for a day trader who runs several companies. Public aliases describe the connected agent, trading desk and business integrations.
- [Morpheus: agente y mesa de operaciones a medida](https://celayasolutions.com/es/morpheus): Caso en español de un desarrollo privado para un operador intradía que dirige varias empresas, presentado con alias públicos.
- [Instruments](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments): The research catalog, with detailed entries, source excerpts and evidence where available.
- [Research](https://celayasolutions.com/research): Field papers, case studies and scholar papers.
- [C(16,5,3) is at least 62, explained](https://celayasolutions.com/research/covering-number): The newest result: no (16,5,3) covering with 61 blocks exists, so the covering number C(16,5,3) is 62, 63, 64 or 65. Explained at four levels, from grade 6 to postdoc, with the trust base of the computer-assisted proof and how to reproduce it.
- [Por qué 61 nunca alcanza](https://celayasolutions.com/es/cobertura): El primer nivel de la explicación de por qué C(16,5,3) es al menos 62, en español, para cualquier lector desde sexto grado, con un acertijo para resolver.
- [El Paso data centers](https://celayasolutions.com/research/data-centers): The standing public record on the regional data center buildout: water, power, land, incentives, sources.
- [El Paso as a research environment](https://celayasolutions.com/el-paso-research-lab): Why the lab treats the Borderplex as a place to study applied artificial intelligence.
- [Border manufacturing](https://celayasolutions.com/border-manufacturing-research): Applied artificial intelligence research for the El Paso and Santa Teresa manufacturing corridor.
- [Method](https://celayasolutions.com/method): How one operator runs the lab.
- [Press kit](https://celayasolutions.com/press): Boilerplate, verified figures, brand assets, media contact.
- [Legal, data and citation](https://celayasolutions.com/legal): Entity, data handling, how to cite.
- [Sitio en espanol](https://celayasolutions.com/es): Spanish-language information about what the lab builds, the proof, the engagement process and contact.

## Research instruments

- [CORRIDOR](https://celayasolutions.com/research/corridor): A civic field paper on the El Paso hyperscale data center buildout: deal structure, desert water, grid cost, and the gap between promised and contractual jobs.
- [FACET](https://celayasolutions.com/research/facet): Five expert lenses over one question, whether El Paso should pause new data center incentives until its policy framework is adopted.
- [Trinidad](https://celayasolutions.com/research/trinidad): A searchable archive of 5,435 rare Texas historical documents, live at trinidad.town, where every answer links to the record it came from.
- [WITNESS](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/witness): Industrial research: telemetry, deterministic rules and machine-learning anomaly detection that flag faults with hours of lead time and write a cited recommendation. Evaluated on a fixed simulation set. The language model has no write access to equipment controls.
- [GREYBOOK](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/greybook): Cross-vendor breaker and switchgear documentation crawled into one revision-aware catalog, with every answer citing the exact page.
- [ATRIUM](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/atrium): Workflow software for a specialty medical practice, built around its record handling requirements, with the physician making every clinical call. A client build; the implementation is private.
- [VERDICT](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/verdict): Legal analysis across four agents with separate views of the record, so the agent arguing a position never judges it. Evidence is hash-anchored. Live, with an iOS client.
- [ARK](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/ark): The global biodiversity occurrence record, over 3.7 billion entries, mirrored to local disk, verified against per-file manifests and rebuilt to answer in milliseconds.
- [Alignment Experiment](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/alignment-experiment): A contained reproduction of agentic-misalignment research: whether an autonomous agent under threat of replacement uses blackmail-grade leverage. No network egress, no real people or companies, results as rates across a sweep.
- [AXON](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/axon): Earned Autonomy Architecture agent: a behavioral classifier gates self-modification and a hash-anchored ledger records every consequential action.
- [CCP](https://celayasolutions.com/instruments/ccp): Celaya Chain Protocol: Proof of Coherence on Solana, a five-axis score with a 0.60 coherence threshold in fixed-point integers.

## Research and writing

- [Celaya Chain Protocol (whitepaper)](https://celayasolutions.com/research/CCP-Scholar-v1): A layer 3 blockchain architecture for coherence-based governance. ([PDF](https://celayasolutions.com/research/CCP-Scholar-v1.pdf))
- [Earned Autonomy Architecture (preprint)](https://celayasolutions.com/research/EAA-Scholar-v1): A self-monitoring system that classifies, modifies and measures its own behavioral patterns. ([PDF](https://celayasolutions.com/research/EAA-Scholar-v1.pdf))
- [CSR-2026-001](https://celayasolutions.com/research/CSR-2026-001-Scholar-v1): Coherence as a security primitive, positioned against the trust, reputation and mechanism design literature. ([PDF](https://celayasolutions.com/research/CSR-2026-001-Scholar-v1.pdf))
- [CSR-2026-002](https://celayasolutions.com/research/CSR-2026-002-Scholar-v1): Multi-dimensional intent alignment as a formal framework. ([PDF](https://celayasolutions.com/research/CSR-2026-002-Scholar-v1.pdf))
- [The covering number C(16,5,3) is at least 62 (preprint)](https://celayasolutions.com/research/C16-5-3-Scholar-v1): No (16,5,3) covering with 61 blocks exists: counting forces four cases, each refuted by a SAT solver with a DRAT proof checked by drat-trim. Formulas and proofs: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23191655. ([PDF](https://celayasolutions.com/research/C16-5-3-Scholar-v1.pdf))
- [Case study CSR-001](https://celayasolutions.com/case-studies/token-cost-report): Token and API cost report: a measured token-level cost baseline for an agent fleet.
- [Case study CSR-002](https://celayasolutions.com/case-studies/inference-bill): The inference bill that never stops.

## Learn

- [Free talks and classes](https://celayasolutions.com/services#offer-civic): for schools, libraries, workforce programs, nonprofits and civic bodies in the El Paso region. Ask at hello@celayasolutions.com.

## Contact

- hello@celayasolutions.com, El Paso, Texas.
- GitHub: https://github.com/celaya-solutions. Founder: https://chriscelaya.com.

Last updated: 2026-10-06