How to Start Using vCons Without Changing Everything

A field guide for builders, product teams, and innovators who want smarter conversations—without ripping out what already works.

When I first explain what a vCon is—a virtualized conversation, structured, signed, and interoperable—the response I sometimes get is:

• “Sounds powerful… but we just finished building our CRM.”
• “We already use call recordings and AI summaries.”
• “We can’t afford to rip and replace everything we’ve built.”

Good news:

You don’t have to.

This isn’t about blowing up your stack. It’s about enhancing what you already have—quietly, strategically, and one layer at a time.

In this post, I’ll show you how to start experimenting with vCons right now, without disrupting your business, your team, or your tech.

But first, let’s clear up the big myth:

vCons Are a Format, Not a Platform

A vCon is not a SaaS product.

It’s not a dashboard.

It’s not a new interface.

It’s a standardized file format that turns conversations—voice, video, email, messaging—into structured memory objects.

Think:

• A ZIP file, but for everything that happened in a conversation

• With verified metadata

• Searchable by AI

• Transferable between systems

• Enriched over time with transcripts, summaries, and outcomes

It’s not about replacing your tools. It’s about giving your tools context, continuity, and clarity.

The 3-Part Starter Map

Here’s how you can begin exploring vCons without changing everything:

1. Pick a Narrow Use Case

Don’t start with the whole company. Start with one repeated conversation flow that matters.

Examples:

• Weekly demo calls with new prospects

• Customer onboarding sessions

• Internal product feedback reviews

• Founder investor updates

• Agent-customer escalations

Choose a context where you’re already capturing conversations—but not yet learning from them at scale.

2. Generate vCons from Existing Conversations

You don’t need new infrastructure. You just need access to:

• Audio or video files

• Chat or message logs

• Email threads with identifiable structure

From there, you can:

• Use an open source vCon generator

• Use a commercial plug-in (several are in-market now)

• Or work with a strategic advisor (like me or a member of my team) to spin up a lightweight pipeline

The point is: you can generate vCons now, from what you already have.

3. Feed Them Into Your Tools—Smarter

Once you’ve got vCons:

• Summarize them with your preferred LLM

• Index them in a private vector database

• Tag them by speaker, topic, outcome, sentiment

• Use them as training data for agents

• Use them as audit records for compliance

What you get is structured, queryable, interoperable memory.

And the insight you’ll gain—even from a week’s worth of conversations—is often game-changing.

Why This Matters Now

AI is everywhere, but it’s often acting like a goldfish: no memory, no continuity, no trust.

vCons + SCITT (Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust) change that.

You get:

• Memory: Conversations that persist over time

• Provenance: Verifiable data lineage

• Trust: Consent, control, and compliance built in

You’re not replacing your CRM. You’re upgrading your thinking.

What We’ll Be Doing in Hyannis

This month, at the Spring ’25 vCon Conference in Hyannis, we’ll be doing exactly this.

• We’ll demo real vCon implementations—including ones built with under 500 lines of code

• We’ll workshop use cases by function and role

• We’ll walk through the path from proof-of-concept to production

You don’t need to know everything.

You just need to be curious enough to see what’s next.

Come Join Us (Or Let’s Talk)

Spring ’25 vCon Conference

April 22–24 | Hyannis, MA

Agenda + speaker list: https://www.vonevolution.com/speakers25

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-25-vcon-tickets-1038182942127

Schedule a Zoom with me: https://calendly.com/jeffpulver/meeting-with-jeff-on-zoom

Have an idea for a vCon use case?

Want to test something quietly, internally, experimentally?

Let’s talk. I live for this stuff.

— Jeff Pulver