Anthony Miller

Contact: anthony@millermedia7.com
Visit us: www.millermedia7.com
mobile: 585.455.2639

millermedia7 is a digital, full service digital innovation co that exists only for the stratospheric elevation of brands. Our team has over 50 years of combined, vital experience in myriad industries. We wholeheartedly embrace the web, user experience, video, social media, mobile, and all facets of design. Millermedia7 believes that transparency, automation and streamlined workflows yield opportunities to tackle a new generation of communication challenges that many companies are now experiencing for the first time.

We're a tight knit collective of strategists, designers, developers, technology teams, and digital change agents that work together to form impactful campaigns that elevate brands. We've worked anywhere from startup phase all the way to enterprise, and we have found that in each case as long as we listen, bring great ideas and trust our expertise everyone wins. 

The drivers that are of interest to me are working with creative and technology teams to bring forth a more actionable digital experience for all. 

Entrepreneur, investor, particle beam splitter, dragon hunter, and all around nice guy

Specialties: 

+ Startups
+ Strategy
+ User Experience
+ Product Management
+ Digital/New Media/Video
+ Branding 
+ Social Media & Content Creation
+ Social Engagement
+ Mobile Application & Web Development
+ Interactive Game, Widget, and Custom Application Development
+ Company Culture Engineering

Voice narration, interviewing, host, speaker

Co-Founder

AI in Design Systems: Smarter UX and Faster Team Workflows.

Founder and CEO of millermedia7 | Digital Transformation | UX | Member @enrich

Open article: AI in Design Systems: Smarter UX and Faster Team Workflows. by millermedia7.com

VC's pushing the valuation. Founders: pushing the product.

Congratulations to the team!!

I’ve had a front-row seat to what Jason and Freddie have been building over the past couple of years, and I couldn’t be more excited to see Collective OS finally come out of stealth.

If you run a services business and referrals drive your growth, this is one to pay attention to. 🚀

After two years of building in stealth, I’m thrilled to finally launch Collective OS and announce our $2.5M fundraise.

Freddie Laker and I started Collective OS because we saw a real problem for professional service businesses, especially agencies, consulting firms, and fractional experts. Traditional ways of generating new business like paid ads and cold emails just aren’t working anymore, and the noisy AI slop on social media platforms (**ahem**) has hit a breaking point.

It’s harder than ever for thoughtful people and firms to stand out, build trust, or generate real conversations that turn into revenue.

What works, and will always work, is referrals from people you trust.

With that reality in mind, we felt this was the moment to build something unique, collaborative, and impactful.

Our goal with Collective OS is simple:  help service providers double and triple down on the thing that already makes up most of their revenue - referrals.

Today, that looks like an AI-powered connector that helps firms build trusted partner networks (aka, their “Collective”). By empowering independent agencies and service providers to discover and team up with complementary firms, they can share deal flow, expand their service offering, and “say yes to more revenue” - without the overhead of becoming full-service.

Since launching in stealth in January 2024, we’ve seen $5M+ in shared deal flow and thousands of new partnerships formed between our users. 

Our users believe in collaboration, not a “lone wolf” mentality. Their mindset is simple: if you win, then I win, then we all win.  

If that resonates with you, come join us.

Today is the result of countless late nights, early mornings, and pure hustle by an incredible team, but it’s only the beginning. This is the first step in our mission to Digitize Word of Mouth™ among service providers and maximize referrals for the largest sector of our economy.

If this vision resonates with you — whether you’re an engineer, designer, operator, or just someone who gets sh*t done — we’re hiring, and we’d love to talk.

And lastly, we wouldn't be here without our amazing group of friends, early supporters, angels, investors, and advisors who have stood with us along the way, and who I am incredibly grateful for:

Scott Garber, Brian Bell, Trevor Kaufman, Paul Lewis, Nancy Hill, Sangeeth Peruri, Evan Specter, Seamus M., Steve Klebe, Chris Sporck, Akli Adjaoute, Stephanie Ochoa, CPA, Sohan Gadkari, Jordan Rothstein, Parker Ashley, Damiano R., Austin Dillman, Charlie Guevara, Chuck Schaeffer, Sam Chadha, Adam Towvim, Jeff Blettner, Michael Martens, John Martens, Elliott Brown, Gary Penn, Matt Kruger, Réamonn (Ray) Smale, Ivonne Azurdia, Elise Marquis (de Saint Didier), Sean MacBeth, Tavis Salazar, Stephanie Driscoll, Daniel Shainker, Cate French, Mel Pacheco, Matthew Obendorf

See you in the Collective.

Experienced Product Leader with 10+ years of experience driving growth and success for startups and enterprise businesses. Currently focused on creating AI-powered products and experiences that leverage multi-model (and modal) systems. A proven track record in both B2B and B2C SaaS environments, thriving at the intersection of technology, strategy, and innovation. 

Thriving in fast-paced environments, I relish the opportunity to tackle complex, challenging problems - the harder, the better. I excel at guiding cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch and beyond, ensuring that data-driven insights and a relentless focus on the customer underpin every step.

My general product mindset is rooted in a deep belief that great products aren't just about what they can do; they're about doing meaningful things that meet people's needs in a simple, intuitive, and delightful way.

Mike Bal

Good job Microsoft. 

This is what losing with AI looks like. 

If you surface AI inside a product... it should be able to interact with the product on behalf of the user. 

If you surface AI without giving it the ability to make the user's life/task easier, you are telling them that you really only care about checking the "we have AI" box. 

I'm going to hold back my other feelings on Microsoft UX... for now.

Discovered this really clever onboarding trick from Neo4j

I thought it was a required sales form to get the free instanc up and running and maybe it was but...

This was different. 

When I typed my name, a node appeared on screen. 
Added my company, and suddenly there's a relationship connecting them. 
Kept filling out the form, and the graph kept building.

Show me > Tell Me

So many people focus on what AI can automate, and I think that’s a very short sighted perspective. 

If you want to see impact you should focus on:

How can AI help improve the outcome?

How can AI help improve the quality? 

How can AI help expand the scope?

Sometimes the answer includes automating parts of the work, but 9/10 times I use it to take what I’m working on a few steps further. 

More research. 
More challenging perspectives. 
More data analysis. 
More polish. 
More delight.

“Should we let users debug it themselves?”

Traditional thinking would say this is a terrible experience and that the user should never have to solve a problem themselves. 

We are in 2026 and more tools are adopting non deterministic flexibility in the product over rigid functionality, and it’s the right choice in many (not all) cases. 

This is t traditional debugging but after a few attempts at triggering research and skill use on the mobile app I realized it was just stuck. 

Instead of giving up, I simply called it out and it fixed the problem. 

IMO this turns a “bug” into an experience I understand and gives me more confidence in the product. 

I wouldn’t call it ”delight”. That would look more like Claude catching itself when the active thread stalled out, but that’s ok. Turning a poor experience into an empowering one is a major win. 

Kudos to you Anthropic team.

graphical user interface, text, application, chat or text message

Am I being overly critical?

Google DeepMind has put out some fantastic models and is leading in terms of developer experience - kudos to people on the team like Paige Bailey and Logan Kilpatrick 

The consumer facing Gemini app (web and mobile) from Google is not good and makes the models feel lower quality and less capable than they are. 

Very basic things like better thread context management, user specific memory, and shifting requests within a thread would go a long way. 

Things I hate:

Get an image and ask it to make subtle changes to the image in the same thread. You get back the exact same image with no changes but it thinks it did what you asked. 

Ask it to use the thread as context for something new e.g. a document, video, etc. misses half the thread. 

No way to branch context via project folders, thread groups, etc. so you have to give it all the context every time. 

They have done a good job of integrating across the Google ecosystem, so you can use drive for context management and work around a few of these things…  but that’s more work than it should be considering the experience across key competitors.

taplio

The Battle

Anthony Miller

Mike Bal

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreAnthony Miller's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreMike Bal's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Anthony Miller

Mike Bal

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Anthony Miller's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreMike Bal's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreAnthony Miller's LinkedIn Performance