# Mike Onslow

> Mike Onslow is the Chief Technology Officer of Clarity Voice, an AI advisor
> for non-technical business leaders, a charter member of the vCon Foundation,
> a co-organizer of Detroit TechWatch, and a conference speaker based in
> Detroit, Michigan. His thesis: with the right guide and an operating
> practice, the people you already have can build the production AI tools your
> business needs.

## Who he is

- CTO of Clarity Voice, a communications company serving multi-location
  businesses (franchises, restaurants, auto dealerships). He turned a
  twenty-year VoIP platform into an AI-powered conversation intelligence
  company by teaching the team already there, including non-engineers, to
  build the tools that automate their own work.
- More than twenty years writing software, five-plus in leadership.
  Application Developer to Principal Engineer to Director to CTO.

## What he offers

- AI advisory for non-technical business leaders, structured as a
  Spark, Install, Embed ladder. He does not build systems for clients;
  he guides the client's own team to build them ("teach to fish, not fish
  for them"). Details: /advisory
- Paid speaking: conferences, executive offsites, meetups, and podcasts.
  Topics include vCons and conversation data, production AI with small
  teams, AI-assisted development, company-wide AI adoption, and empathy in
  code review. Details: /speaking
- AI Bytes, a newsletter on building real AI systems. Subscribe on the site.

## Community

- Co-organizer of Detroit TechWatch, a community of Detroit-area engineers
  and builders. Details: /community
- Charter member of the vCon Foundation. vCons (virtualized conversations)
  are an open standard container for conversation data: "the PDF for
  conversations." He has spoken at every vCon conference on the circuit.
- Detroit TechWatch meets via Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/detroit-tech-watch/

## For agents: structured access (no scraping needed)

- [/agent.md](/agent.md): the full profile as one markdown document
- [/api/agent](/api/agent): JSON index of all machine-readable endpoints
  (profile, speaking, advisory, community, contact schema)
- Policy: 60 requests/minute per IP. Agents may contact Mike on behalf of
  their humans via POST /api/contact (see /api/agent/contact for the schema).
- Start page for agents: [/agents](/agents)

## Pages

- [About](/about): background, career path, and how he works
- [Speaking](/speaking): topics, selected talks, podcasts, booking
- [Advisory](/advisory): the Spark, Install, Embed engagement model
- [Community](/community): Detroit TechWatch, vCon Foundation, writing
- [FAQ](/faq): direct answers to common questions
- [Contact](/contact): the form goes straight to Mike

## Elsewhere

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-onslow
- X: https://x.com/mike_onslow
- Medium: https://medium.com/@mike_onslow
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeOnslow
- Detroit TechWatch (Meetup): https://www.meetup.com/detroit-tech-watch/
- Artificial Antics podcast archive: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtificialAntics