Do you work with businesses in Metro Detroit and the suburbs?

Yes. I'm based in the Detroit area and work with leaders across Metro Detroit, from Southfield and Troy to Ann Arbor, as well as statewide in Michigan and remotely across the US. Local engagements can include on-site working sessions with your team.

What kind of Detroit businesses is this advisory for?

Any company with an existing team and real AI opportunity that keeps staying theoretical: professional services, operations-heavy businesses, multi-location operators, and growing local companies. You do not need engineers on staff. The point is to teach the people you already have to build.

Why hire a local AI advisor instead of a national consultant?

Because the work transfers capability to your team rather than renting it. I guide your people to build production AI themselves, so the skill stays in your company. Being in the Detroit area means I can sit in the room when it matters.

Detroit & Metro Detroit

An AI advisor for Detroit businesses who'd rather build than wait.

I'm Mike Onslow, a Detroit-based AI advisor for non-technical business leaders across Metro Detroit and Michigan. I don't build AI systems and hand you a bill. I guide the team you already have, including non-engineers, to build production AI themselves, so the capability stays in your company. If you're a leader in Detroit, Southfield, Troy, or anywhere in the area sitting on real AI opportunity that keeps staying theoretical, that's the gap I close.

Start the conversation How the advisory works

AI adoption for Michigan businesses, done locally

Detroit is a builder's town, and the companies here don't need another strategy deck. They need working software and a team that knows how to make more of it. I run that play every day as CTO of a Detroit-area communications company, and I co-organize Detroit TechWatch because this city's tech community deserves the same momentum as the coasts. The advisory brings that same hands-on, teach-to-fish approach to your team.

How a local engagement runs

Spark

Find the fire worth starting

A focused working session with your leadership team. We map where AI actually creates value in your business, pick the highest-leverage use case, and prove it live so the room sees working software instead of a slide deck. You leave with a concrete first build and the conviction that your team can do this.

Install

Stand up the operating practice

We install the practice inside your company: the tooling, the governance, the training, and the first real builds. Your people are on the keyboard the entire time. I guide, review, and unblock. By the end, AI is not a project somebody owns. It is how your team works.

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Make it stick without me

Ongoing advisory at the cadence your business needs. We grow internal champions, build a library of reusable skills, and keep the practice honest as the tools change. The goal of this phase is to make me progressively less necessary. That is what done looks like.

Detroit AI advisory: common questions

Do you work with businesses in Metro Detroit and the suburbs?: Yes. I'm based in the Detroit area and work with leaders across Metro Detroit, from Southfield and Troy to Ann Arbor, as well as statewide in Michigan and remotely across the US. Local engagements can include on-site working sessions with your team.
What kind of Detroit businesses is this advisory for?: Any company with an existing team and real AI opportunity that keeps staying theoretical: professional services, operations-heavy businesses, multi-location operators, and growing local companies. You do not need engineers on staff. The point is to teach the people you already have to build.
Why hire a local AI advisor instead of a national consultant?: Because the work transfers capability to your team rather than renting it. I guide your people to build production AI themselves, so the skill stays in your company. Being in the Detroit area means I can sit in the room when it matters.

Based in Detroit. Building with teams across Michigan.

Tell me about your company and the AI opportunity you keep circling. I'll tell you honestly whether your team can build it, and how.

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