Steven Mih
Founder and CEO, Action State Group, Inc.
Previously founded Ahana, acquired by IBM, and serves on the Presto Foundation board at the Linux Foundation. Now building agents hands-on.
About
One founder, shipping real things.
Action State (Action State Group, Inc.) authors open standards and builds open-source tooling that turns AI agent actions into tamper-evident records anyone can verify. Founded 2026.
Your data stays with you. What travels is a record in a portable evidence standard.
Team
The founder.
What we've shipped
The body of work.
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Jun 2026
Witness + verifier live
- Jul 2026
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Jul 2026
No patents: everything Apache-2.0
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Jun–Oct 2026
Eleven Internet-Drafts published
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Aug 2026
Our log in the public TRACE registry
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Sep 2026
actionstate.ai
- Sep 2026
Talks & events
Six months of proof: independently verifiable records for agent actions under the EU AI Act
Steven Mih (Action State Group) — on turning agent action records into evidence under the EU AI Act.
- Spoke at AGNTCon · MCPCon Europe, Amsterdam, 17 Sept — slides (PDF) ↗ · session ↗
- Next: AGNTCon · MCPCon North America, San Jose, 22–23 Oct — session ↗
- AIE Network webinar with Mark Hinkle and Imran Siddique, 22 Sept — Event page ↗