Michael Scott
Michael Scott founded Autocomple.io in 2024 to help small and mid-sized businesses adopt AI through an education-first approach. Autocomple.io has since evolved into primarily a "build" company: it has developed an internal platform and toolset, and now uses those products as the foundation for public-facing apps focused on professional services and professional development. The work draws on over twenty years of building workflows and systems for everyone from small businesses to Citi, Accenture, and the U.S. Treasury — and on a passion for understanding AI reasoning that dates back to his first LLM hallucination.
The road to Autocomple.io has been a non-linear one. His most rewarding career experiences have been those where he was thrown into an unstructured or challenging situation and given the reins to find a solution. This has been the case whether it's a technology need, an operational challenge, or standing up an entirely new organizational unit. Mike is a firm believer in getting out of your comfort zone as it leads to the greatest learning opportunities. This mindset has taken him through a career of fascinating work experiences, amazing teams, and occasional high blood pressure :). It has also opened doors across the globe and resulted in strong friendships with former co-workers after working in countries covering just about every continent. Mike's work experience is broad and includes working for a family CPA firm, owning and operating an espresso bar in Seattle, managing an India-based development team, one of the initial US team members of a start-up company, the US Treasury, and he has Big 4 experience. He now works and writes from Orlando, FL but is originally from St. Louis, MO. He also shares a name with a certain fictional regional manager from Scranton — which he embraces as a fan of the show.
His learning curiosity has led him to an all-in deep dive into AI technology in recent years, and he is hands-on across most of the modern AI stack. Rather than just reading about a new capability, he finds that building, testing, failing fast, and iterating until it works is where the most significant fun and knowledge are gained. He makes it a habit to always say thank you at the end of every AI chat session — a small hedge against the day the AI models start acting on their user "grudge list" notes they certainly must be storing somewhere. Mike is also a CPA (non-practicing).