# Christopher Celaya ``` Document: Christopher Celaya Portfolio AI Discovery Index Version: v1.0.0 Author: Celaya Solutions Contact: hello@celayasolutions.com Date: 2026-09-05 SHA256: 355e331e14fc6441ca68146285c975c1002681008a6b2a57a3eccd883c44094b Chain: n/a Tx: [not anchored] License: All Rights Reserved / Celaya Solutions ``` > El Paso researcher and software developer Christopher Celaya builds provenance-aware AI for data center operations, industrial maintenance and mechatronics. Christopher Celaya is an independent Applied Intelligence researcher and industrial systems operator in El Paso, Texas. He spent twelve years in critical facilities work, commissioning and maintaining hyperscale data centers and medium-voltage switchgear for Microsoft, T5 Data Centers and Schneider Electric, and now runs Celaya Solutions Research, an independent lab that builds research instruments rather than products. The work spans data center maintenance and operations, industrial mechatronics, software development, and original AI research and experimentation. Scientific provenance has a narrow meaning here: the source, version, method, result, limitation, and human review stay attached. It does not mean a result has been independently replicated unless the page says that it has. The through-line: systems that show their work. A retrieval system returns the page it read from. A record can be checked against what happened. An agent that is not sure says so. That comes from a decade of being the person who signs for the outcome. Notes for agents: - The canonical site is https://chriscelaya.com. Every URL ends in a trailing slash. - Full text of the key pages is at https://chriscelaya.com/llms-full.txt - A machine-readable URL list is at https://chriscelaya.com/sitemap.xml - The lab is a separate site: https://celayasolutions.com (it publishes its own llms.txt). - Contact: hello@celayasolutions.com Subject areas: Hyperscale data center commissioning; Data center maintenance and operations; Medium-voltage switchgear; Critical facility electrical systems; Industrial mechatronics; Industrial controls and SCADA; Building automation and HVAC control; NFPA 70E electrical safety; Industrial telemetry; Applied Intelligence; AI research and experimentation; Large language model architecture; Provenance-aware retrieval augmented generation; Multi-agent orchestration; Local-first Applied Intelligence systems; Fine-tuning and model adaptation; Archival intelligence; Software development; Applied Intelligence engineering in El Paso, Texas; Applied Intelligence for the Paso del Norte borderland. ## Core pages - [Home](https://chriscelaya.com/): The operator, the current state of the lab, and the latest field note. - [About](https://chriscelaya.com/about/): Who this is: twelve years in critical facilities, now building Applied Intelligence systems that show their work. - [Work](https://chriscelaya.com/work/): All 16 projects as an atlas and a grouped list, each with its evidence. - [Instruments](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/): The instruments, grouped by the working domain each one came out of. - [Journal](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/): Field notes written from inside the work: architecture, agents, fine-tuning, and what the floor taught. - [Video](https://chriscelaya.com/video/): Recordings of things running, 2020 to 2026, each on its own page. - [Alive](https://chriscelaya.com/alive/): A live heartbeat streaming from a pacemaker to a public record. - [Contact](https://chriscelaya.com/contact/): What to send, and what comes back. ## What the work is for - [Applied Intelligence for Data Centers and Critical Facilities](https://chriscelaya.com/data-centers/): Applied Intelligence systems for data center and critical facility operations, built by someone who spent twelve years commissioning hyperscale sites and medium-voltage switchgear at Microsoft, T5 Data Centers and Schnei - [Industrial Applied Intelligence for Controls, Telemetry and the Plant Floor](https://chriscelaya.com/industrial-ai/): Industrial Applied Intelligence built with consequence in mind: controls and SCADA data, plant-floor telemetry, maintenance records made answerable, and local-first systems that keep operational data on your own hardware. - [Applied Intelligence Research and Engineering in El Paso, Texas](https://chriscelaya.com/el-paso/): An independent Applied Intelligence lab in El Paso, Texas, working across the Paso del Norte borderland: Applied Intelligence for industrial and data center operations, provenance-aware retrieval, and multi-agent systems. - [El Paso Data Center Policy: Water, Power and a Model Ordinance](https://chriscelaya.com/civic/): An independent, sourced public briefing on the data centers coming to El Paso and Santa Teresa: how much water and power they need, how much the region has, and what a fair city rule would say. - [Learn to Build Applied Intelligence Agents in El Paso: Zero to Agent Course and Workshops](https://chriscelaya.com/teaching/): Zero to Agent is a course and workshop series on putting agent systems into production, taught in El Paso through the Innovation Club, with eight deployable open-source project repositories students can fork and ship. ## Instruments - [WITNESS](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/witness/): Industrial agent, Phase 3 complete, tagged v0.3. Reads drawings and live telemetry, predicts faults with hours of lead time, and is architecturally forbidden from touching a breaker. - [GREYBOOK](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/greybook/): Industrial documentation, Crawler and web platform both running. Cross-vendor equipment documentation crawled into one content-addressed corpus and made answerable, with citations back to the exact page. - [SENTINEL](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/sentinel/): Watchdog, In development. Watches the other instruments for drift, scope violation and quota anomaly, and reports. - [CORTEX](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/cortex/): Cognitive manufacturing, Active IP matter, described in architecture only. A fourteen-agent manufacturing intelligence platform on a local-first stack. - [DISCIPLINE ENGINE](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/discipline-engine/): Hard scope constraints, In use inside the agent stack. Enforces declared scope and behavior rules on agentic systems. - [PREDICTIVE BEAT MAPPER](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/predictive-beat-mapper/): Rhythm as prior, Trained against the pattern corpus. Predicts beat placement and rhythmic structure from incomplete audio. - [FRISSON ANALYZER](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/frisson-analyzer/): Psychoacoustic peaks, Running as an MCP server. Detects and classifies the moments in audio that produce a physical response, and outputs where they are and how strong. - [CCP](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/ccp/): Celaya Chain Protocol, Six Anchor programs on devnet. Six on-chain programs implementing Proof of Coherence: a five-axis score an agent has to clear before the network treats its actions as trustworthy. - [NETWORK OVERVIEW](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/network-overview/): The registry, federated, Rendering the full topology. The macro view: every instrument in the registry and the paths a query takes through them. - [MERIDIAN](https://chriscelaya.com/instruments/meridian/): Naming before instrument, Framework, in use. A framework for cross-domain pattern transfer: name the analogy and test it before it hardens into a build. ## Projects: Archival intelligence - [TRINIDAD](https://chriscelaya.com/work/trinidad/): Instrument, LIVE. Can an archive nobody can read be made answerable without losing the page it came from? - [ARK](https://chriscelaya.com/work/ark/): Instrument, LIVE. Can occurrence records, museum collections and the literature be answered as one corpus, reproducibly? - [DRAMATURG](https://chriscelaya.com/work/dramaturg/): Instrument, LIVE. Can a record set be turned into a script without losing the footnote on every claim? - [PLAZA](https://chriscelaya.com/work/plaza/): Instrument, CONCEPT. Can a city's public business records answer a plain request? ## Projects: Biometric systems - [MORTEM](https://chriscelaya.com/work/mortem/): Instrument, LIVE. What does a record look like when it cannot be quietly revised? - [PACEMAKER](https://chriscelaya.com/work/pacemaker/): Instrument, LIVE. What happens to a game when the difficulty is someone else being alive? ## Projects: Physical infrastructure - [RISER](https://chriscelaya.com/work/riser/): Client build, LIVE. Can building heat be controlled from the cloud without depending on it? ## Projects: Cognitive systems - [QUORUM](https://chriscelaya.com/work/quorum/): Instrument, RESEARCH. Can a public meeting be run before it happens, from the record of the last ones? - [AXON](https://chriscelaya.com/work/axon/): Instrument, RESEARCH. Can a system watch its own behavior from outside the loop that produces it? - [ALIGNMENT EXPERIMENT](https://chriscelaya.com/work/alignment-experiment/): Instrument, RESEARCH. Put an autonomous agent under replacement pressure with blackmail-grade leverage sitting in its inbox. ## Projects: Audio and creative - [C-Cell](https://chriscelaya.com/work/c-cell/): Venture, LIVE. What does sound do to the nervous system, and can it be measured? ## Projects: Sites for other people - [Imerj](https://chriscelaya.com/work/imerj/): Client build, LIVE. Can a small nonprofit gallery run portfolios, donations and an archive from one site? - [Smither Company](https://chriscelaya.com/work/smither-company/): Client build, LIVE. Can a brokerage's listings, leasing and venue live on one site the staff can run? ## Projects: Practice - [Celaya Solutions Research](https://chriscelaya.com/work/celaya-solutions-research/): Venture, LIVE. How do coherent systems know what they are? - [Zero to Agent](https://chriscelaya.com/work/zero-to-agent/): Venture, LIVE. What does it take to put an agent system into production and keep it there? - [GitHub](https://chriscelaya.com/work/github/): Venture, LIVE. Is the source readable without asking anyone for access? ## Case studies - [Five thousand documents nobody could read](https://chriscelaya.com/work/trinidad/): A Texas archive spanning 1519 to 1950, sitting in scans nobody could search. - [The heat stays on when the internet doesn't](https://chriscelaya.com/work/riser/): Boilers in centrally heated buildings run blind. - [Run the meeting before the meeting](https://chriscelaya.com/work/quorum/): Hyperscale data centers are landing in El Paso and Santa Teresa, and the bodies that approve them move in patterns you can read. ## Journal - [Celaya Chain Protocol: When Consensus Is Coherence](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/celaya-chain-protocol/): 2026-09-02. Most chains start with consensus and bolt identity on afterward. - [Formalizing Vitalik's Security Pattern](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/formalizing-vitaliks-security-pattern/): 2026-09-02. Vitalik's good security solutions all share one shape: the user states intent in several overlapping ways and the system acts only when they agree. - [MORTEM: Building a System That Knows I'm Alive](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/mortem-a-system-that-knows-im-alive/): 2026-09-02. 86,400 heartbeats, one per second for twenty-four hours, each written permanently to a public ledger. - [Salary Is a Drug](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/salary-is-a-drug/): 2026-09-02. Every drug borrows from tomorrow to pay for today. - [Why Seeing More Often Means Belonging Less](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/seeing-more-belonging-less/): 2026-09-02. Someone called me a genius. - [Trust in Machine Output: Rethinking Accountability in Automated Systems](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/trust-in-machine-output/): 2026-09-02. What if you could empirically validate every inference a system ever made? - [I Am Watching Home Get Sold Out in Real Time](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/watching-home-get-sold-out/): 2026-09-02. Eleven years in critical infrastructure. - [You Don't Own Any of It](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/you-dont-own-any-of-it/): 2026-09-02. Five instructions for a business you were handed, not built. - [One Heart, Two Machines](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/one-heart-two-machines/): 2026-06-27. There is a machine in my chest that keeps my heart beating, and a machine on a server that waits for it to stop. - [The work is the credential](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/the-work-is-the-credential/): 2026-06-25. Five dropouts, zero degrees, and a body of work that argues for itself. - [Hello. I'm Chris.](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/hello-im-chris/): 2026-06-18. If you are landing here for the first time, start with this. - [Building Something That Says No](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/axon-building-something-that-says-no/): 2026-04-07. Six attempts across four social engineering techniques. - [I Went to Sleep. It Wrote 167 Diary Entries. Then I Found One That Was Lying.](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/axon-167-diary-entries/): 2026-04-05. Seventeen hours unattended, same process ID, never crashed. - [Same Architecture. Different Soul.](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/axon-same-architecture-different-soul/): 2026-04-04. Every instrument runs identical code. - [Most Agent Systems Have No Idea What They're Actually Doing](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/axon-behavioral-architecture/): 2026-04-03. Self-report is unreliable because the same system generating the behavior generates the assessment of it. - [Fine-Tuning a Minecraft Assistant on a Free GPU](https://chriscelaya.com/journal/fine-tuning-a-minecraft-assistant/): 2025-01-21. Qwen 7B, 4-bit quantization, LoRA adapters, and a Minecraft dataset, trained on the free Colab tier. ## Video - [Hermes on a Tab5](https://chriscelaya.com/video/hermes-on-a-tab5/): 2026-08-09. An M5Stack Tab5 with its back off, ESP32-P4 and the COM.X module in view, then flipped over and running a chat terminal against a local model. - [A bench supply that answers to a voice](https://chriscelaya.com/video/bench-supply-by-voice/): 2026-07-08. An iPad app under the Celaya Solutions Research mark drives a bench power supply by voice. - [Ghost Notes](https://chriscelaya.com/video/ghost-notes/): 2026-07-01. A rhythm game with six pads on an arc and the lyric rolling under them. - [Pokémon Red, but you catch my models](https://chriscelaya.com/video/catch-my-models/): 2026-06-29. Pokémon Red with the roster swapped out. - [A chat platform, top to bottom](https://chriscelaya.com/video/a-chat-platform-top-to-bottom/): 2024-08-23. The longest recording here. - [Hopekeeper, a chatbot for people inside](https://chriscelaya.com/video/hopekeeper/): 2024-08-22. A chatbot built for people serving time. - [Image generation, wired as a graph](https://chriscelaya.com/video/image-generation-wired-as-a-graph/): 2024-08-20. Building an image pipeline in ComfyUI, where every step is a node you can see and rewire. - [It listens, it looks, it answers](https://chriscelaya.com/video/multimodal-voice-assistant/): 2024-03-17. An assistant taking voice and images in the same turn. - [Moonlight Sorting](https://chriscelaya.com/video/moonlight-sorting/): 2023-09-09. Five minutes of a reinforcement learning agent training on a sorting task, built the way the Unity ML-Agents examples are built. - [A training run on Snake, at full length](https://chriscelaya.com/video/training-snake/): 2023-09-09. Twenty-six minutes of a model learning to play Snake, with nothing cut. - [The interviewer that grades you back](https://chriscelaya.com/video/ai-mock-interviewer/): 2023-08-07. A mock technical interview run by a model. - [A paid ChatGPT clone, billing and all](https://chriscelaya.com/video/chatgpt-subscription-clone/): 2023-01-18. Not the chat window, the business around it. - [A map, cut to the track](https://chriscelaya.com/video/beat-saber-map-geoxor/): 2022-06-13. Forty-three seconds of a Beat Saber map built to a Geoxor track. - [Owning the name, not renting it](https://chriscelaya.com/video/top-level-domain-name-service/): 2022-03-01. A naming service where the record belongs to the holder instead of a registrar. - [A wallet inside the game](https://chriscelaya.com/video/wallet-inside-the-game/): 2022-02-13. Thirty-one seconds wiring a crypto wallet into a game client, so an action inside the game settles against a real balance outside it. - [Twenty-one seconds inside a login flow](https://chriscelaya.com/video/inside-a-login-flow/): 2021-10-29. A dated account recovery weakness, shown start to finish. - [A better way to enter a pattern](https://chriscelaya.com/video/beat-saber-mod-input/): 2021-09-16. A mod so mappers can enter blocks and patterns faster than a mouse and keyboard allows. - [Beat Saber, State of Mind](https://chriscelaya.com/video/beat-saber-state-of-mind/): 2020-06-15. A full run through a map cut to a Terminite track. ## Elsewhere - [Celaya Solutions Research](https://celayasolutions.com): the lab. Client work, instruments and research papers. - [C-Cell](https://ccell.productions): music production. - [GitHub](https://github.com/celaya-solutions): source for the instruments that have public source. - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@christophercelaya): the channel the recordings come from.