The UK company building the sovereign intelligence operating system.
Mickai LTD is a British company, incorporated at Companies House under number 17166618. We build Mickai®, a hardware-bound, fully offline AI operating system with a post-quantum signed audit ledger, defended by 104 filed UK patent applications. A small, accountable team in the United Kingdom owns the substrate, its patents, and every subsystem on top of it.
The people behind the substrate.
Inventor-led, exit-credentialled, defence-experienced, and engineering-deep. A small, accountable team in the United Kingdom building the sovereign substrate, its 104 filed UK patent applications, and every subsystem on top of it.
Named inventor on the full portfolio of 104 filed UK patent applications, owned by Mickai LTD. Original co-founder of Collector Crypt, now a live on-chain marketplace with more than $1 billion in transaction volume. Engineering background in nuclear at Sellafield and fusion at the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
Operator with more than 15 years across engineering, manufacturing and business management in oil and gas, offshore, pharmaceuticals and software. Built and delivered high-value contracts for offshore oil and gas operators, turned around underperforming plants and projects, and leads operations, delivery cadence and commercial execution.
Technology executive in defence, AI, and blockchain, with a record of mission-critical systems and government contracts. Owns the MOD, Cabinet Office, NCSC, AISI, and Five Eyes pipeline and the sovereign-AI procurement strategy.
Full-stack engineer and technical lead who owns Mickai's engineering layer end to end: the backend and APIs, the model-orchestration and inference runtime that powers the specialist brains, and the deployment and scaling infrastructure that carries an offline sovereign system from a single workstation to institutional deployment. Formerly full-stack lead on an automated investment platform and the Web3 fundraising tooling for a venture group, where end-to-end automation cut manual fund management by 80%. Computer engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad.
Senior hires under way across engineering, sovereign go-to-market, and compliance and certification, alongside a growing delivery group.
Founder and named inventor.
Micky Irons is the founder, CEO and named inventor on the full portfolio of 104 filed UK patent applications, owned by Mickai LTD. The full career history and the engineering arc into sovereign AI are on the founder page.