Become a sponsor to Gordon Mickel

Hi, I'm Gordon
I build open-source tools for agentic engineering and put AI systems into production.
What your sponsorship supports
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| π§ Flow-Next | A delivery system for coding agents. Specs hold the intent, fresh-context workers build bounded tasks, a second model reviews the plan and the code, and receipts record what actually happened. Runs on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Droid, Grok Build and OpenCode. |
| π GNO | Local search and memory over your own documents, for you and your agents. |
| ποΈ Dettivo for Linux | Private, offline speech-to-text. Push-to-talk dictation into any app, meeting transcription with speaker diarization, and searchable history, with Whisper, Parakeet and a local LLM on your GPU or CPU. Built for Omarchy and Hyprland first, with MCP for agents. GPLv3. |
| π₯οΈ Omarchy plugins | Bar plugins and theme sync for Omarchy: Dettivo and GNO recall in the bar, AI coding quotas across Claude, Codex, Cursor and Grok, and live theme sync for Telegram and Beeper. |
About me
Now: Operating Principal, AI & Technology Lead at Growth Factors (BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital)
Previously: Head of AI at CISTEC AG
I work with the product and engineering teams across a portfolio of 30+ European companies, often inside their codebases. The agentic engineering programme I run there reaches 700+ engineers, and Flow-Next is the open-source system behind it. I also build DocIQ and take selected mandates through Mickel Tech.
Where the money goes
- Hours for releases and issue triage
- The cross-model eval runs behind the numbers on flow-next.dev (those burn real API credit)
- Docs and guides
Thanks. If you'd rather send code, issues and PRs are open.
Reaching 20 sponsors would be a significant milestone in my open-source journey. With this support, I'll be able to dedicate more time to developing and maintaining AI-powered open-source tools, create in-depth tutorials and documentation on AI engineering and web development and contribute more actively to the open-source community.
Featured work
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gmickel/flow-next
Faster than your agent alone. And better. A workflow plugin that takes a bug, idea or ticket to a verified pull request: specs, cross-model review by risk, live QA, receipts in your repo. Claude Coβ¦
Python 706 -
gmickel/gno
Local AI-powered document search and editing with first-in-class hybrid retrieval, LLM answers, WebUI, REST API and MCP support for AI clients.
TypeScript 115 -
gmickel/dettivo-linux
Private, offline speech-to-text for Linux: push-to-talk dictation into any app, meeting transcription with speaker diarization, and searchable history. Whisper, Parakeet and a local LLM on your GPUβ¦
Rust 2 -
gmickel/omarchy-beeper-theme
Keep Beeper Desktop in sync with the active Omarchy color theme
Python 2 -
gmickel/omarchy-gno-recall
Omarchy shell plugin for the GNO local knowledge engine. Bar health, anchored index panel, and recall overlay
QML 1
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