About Solen
How it started
We're Christian Simotas and James Courtney, two high school students who have been best friends for five years. Solen started as James's side project, a small tool that moved text from ChatGPT into Codex without the copying and pasting. When he showed it to Christian, they saw something bigger: if a computer could handle that kind of busywork, it could handle a lot more. After many months of building and testing, that idea became Solen, a second operator that works next to you with its own cursor while you keep yours.
Co-Founder & CEO
Christian has been coding since freshman year and leads Solen's business side, including finance, legal setup, marketing and testing. He loves the challenge: long hours of testing, all-day brainstorming sessions, and learning how to run a business along the way.
Co-Founder & CTO
James has been coding since freshman year too, and he leads Solen's research and development. He loves learning about AI and putting it to work, and he's enjoyed building the product and steering where it goes next.
Why we built it
We want people to take back the time they lose to busywork. Solen handles the repetitive tasks so you can focus on the work that matters.
You keep working. Solen does the other job.