Agents for Independent Professionals and Tiny Teams
Action State is the AI-native startup exploring how agentic systems can give solo builders and very small teams the kind of leverage that once required much larger organizations.
Currently in stealth, focused on thoughtfully applying proactive actioning agents to relationship-driven, high-trust work.
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What is Action State
Action State is a studio environment for creating AI-native products and companies. The focus is on independent and relationship-oriented professionals in areas such as lending, real estate, advisory work and other high-trust practices.
Action State explores how agents can quietly support the way solo operators and tiny teams already work, without replacing the human relationships at the center.
Studio approach
Single platform that explores multiple personas, verticals, and workflows.
Agentic systems
Using agents as the new form of computing…from state to action.
High-trust work
Designed for professionals whose actions comes from judgment, timing, and relationships.
My Perspective
For most of my career, I have worked in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure; tech that gave developers enormous leverage.
Agentic systems feel like the next step in that story. They offer similar leverage to independent professionals who manage complex relationships, long timelines and important decisions.
Action State is focused on building action-orientated workflows that support the people behind the work.
Why Independent Professionals
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Relationship-driven
Trust, intent, and familiarity are primary to delivering value.
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Long timelines
Being the first who gets called can unfold over months and years. The best partners carefully action all their relationships.
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High complexity
Solo operators manage dozens of signals and prioritize the complexity of multi-party relationships themselves.
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New leverage
Agents can provide support that previously required larger teams and resources.
Early Exploration #1
Mortgage Lending
The first area of exploration is mortgage lending, professionals have 100s of client and partner relationships but spend >85% of their time on the application to origination steps.
An early project called ScoutMLO is testing how agents can help with the parters and clients they already know and to authenitcally improve those relationships with proactive insights.

Note: More details will be shared as the work progresses.
Early Exploration #2
Solo Business Owners
Independent professionals — consultants, advisors, brokers, designers, property managers, and others running a practice alone — manage complex client relationships, and operational details without the staff to support them. Most spend more time on coordination and follow-up than on the work they're actually good at.
An early project called MyGopher is testing how an AI assistant — working across email, calendar, and text — can learn how a solo operator works, stay on top of their relationships, and proactively handle the coordination that falls through the cracks.

Note: MyGopher is in active early use. More details will be shared as the work progresses.
About Steven
Steven Mih is a serial entrepeneur and multi-time founder/CEO focused on AI-native systems for people who work in high-trust, relationship-driven environments.
He is based in San Francisco.
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Cloud Infrastructure
Built distributed systems giving developers massive leverage
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Co-Founded Ahana
Cloud-native analytics company acquired by IBM (watsonx.data)
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Co-Founded Across AI
Seed raised, team assembled, and customer engagements began. Continuing as Strategic Liaison (GTM).
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Action State
AI studio for independent professionals and tiny teams
Stay in Touch
Action State is in active exploration. If you are an independent professional or run a small, relationship-driven practice, feel free to reach out!

Keep me updated: Follow Action State on LinkedIn.
For direct inquiries, reach out to: steven@actionstate.ai
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