Mike leads every engagement. Phil deepens the strategy behind it. You get both.
Mike saw where this industry is heading and hit pause on a career he loved to prepare for it. In April 2026, after 27+ years winning and delivering federal health IT work, he stepped away from a successful GovCon growth career to immerse himself full time in AI: agentic workflows, frontier model platforms, and AI-led research systems. In June 2026, he founded Agentic Growth Strategies to bring that capability back to the market he knows best.
The result is the judgment of one of the market's most experienced capture leaders, working at the speed of AI.
That judgment was built over almost three decades of winning and delivering CMS and HHS health IT work, and the deep understanding that comes with it: CMS's business and mission, the programs and systems, the contractor landscape, and the people across government and industry. A career of senior BD and capture leadership, running large, complex captures for some of the market's most consequential programs, from multibillion-dollar contract vehicles to the systems that keep Medicare running. That judgment is behind every ranking, recommendation, and pursuit AGS touches.
AT AGS: You get Mike. He leads every engagement, does the work, and handles every client and government facing interaction personally. He also builds and maintains every intelligence tool used to deliver his services, adding new capability daily, so the toolset sharpens with every engagement.
Phil brings three decades in the CMS market, including 14 years inside CMS itself. As President of Medkasa, he is deep in Medicare programs, policy, performance measurement, and procurement, with a rare inside-and-outside read on where CMS is heading: he has sat on the government side of the table, and he has spent just as long helping industry understand it.
AT AGS: Phil brings a second veteran's perspective, CMS fluency, relationships, and pursuit strategy reactions to every engagement, and partners in delivering the Market Intelligence and Opportunity Brief.
The name
Agentic AI is artificial intelligence that acts: systems that pursue goals, do research, and produce work, not just answer questions. It is the technology at the heart of the AGS Intelligence Engine, and the word carries a second meaning that fits: having agency. Taking initiative. Acting on your behalf. That is the firm, in one word.
The standard
Fixed prices and defined outcomes, chosen so the incentives always point at your win, never at the meter. Disciplined gates before dollars, so pursuit money follows evidence. And no contingency or success fees, consistent with federal acquisition rules.
Two veteran executives on your pursuit. The full AGS Intelligence Engine behind them. All for less than the cost of one BD/capture hire.
Start with the Market Intelligence and Opportunity Brief, a Capabilities Assessment, a Managed BD subscription, or a live pursuit.