CELL History

The idea for CELL Solutions grew out of an undergraduate capstone project and has since developed through various stages, in both organizational structure and strategy, since the company's formation during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.

The idea for CELL solutions began while I was planning for my undergraduate degree Capstone project in 2018. As someone who maintained personal budget spreadsheets, I saw a need to automate the process of downloading, formatting, organizing, and updating data for personal accounting. I wrote about a company, the Creative Electronic Language Learning Corporation, and a piece of software called ExCELL.

The theory is that a machine learning program can replicate user logins to download information in .csv format and upload the data to update the user's spreadsheet workbook. Most retail banks have proprietary that enables users to view personal budget information. This centralization of services deprives financially responsible users of the ability to efficiently store and analyze their personal financial data. I wanted to make a program that automated the tedious data acquisition tasks to enable users to use their current financial data their preferred third-party spreadsheet software.

I started to learn how to write the user interface software using Python coding language by watching lessons at codeme.com. Complex formulas were written in Microsoft Excel to handle the uploaded information before I decided that the most efficient means of accomplishing the task needed to involve using a MariaDB to store the bank-downloaded data and query the database for uploading to the spreadsheet. I graduated and began working in medical administration — ExCELL moved to the backburner of ideas.

Learning about coding in Python led to open-source AI development theories. Despite not having the necessary coding skills to work with Ai development, the usefulness of the technology was apparent. Removing menial tasks from workflows allows employees to spend less time with data and more time to work with information received from the data.

I worked billing medical claims for a prosthetic provider who wanted a program to pair ICD-10 diagnostic codes with Healthcare Common Procedure Coding to verify if a claim would be denied for incorrect coding. A code pairing tool using a machine learning algorithm should read/write to a database, run search queries, and return a response based on historical patterns. One provider's office is not large enough to maintain all medical records, but numerous providers can generate the data required and update the database. A few problems arise from this approach — trust and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance. Trust is not congruent with Database Security best practices. HIPAA strongly regulates permitted uses of patients' protected health information. Research into solving the technological and legal issues of the code pairing tool kept leading to blockchain technology.

The Covid-19 pandemic was the catalyst that sparked action when I was furloughed from my employment with the prosthetist while completing an MBA graduate degree and decided to found the company with my time off. Selling equity shares to finance the startup costs seemed the most practical approach. Articles of incorporation were filed with the Oregon Secretary of State for the Creative Electronic Language Learning Corporation on April 20, 2020.

I cashed out my savings account and built CELL 1 as a desktop PC to handle the Proof-of-Work algorithms and day-to-day computing. Supply chain problems were overcome but resulted in an extended development process. By November 2020, CELL Solutions was mining Monero (XMR) and Ethereum (ETH). I grossly misunderstood the duration of the economic shutdown, and in November 2020, Creative Electronic Language Learning Corp began restructuring to a sole proprietorship. The current iteration of CELL Solutions LLC was founded March 26, 2021