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About Mickai

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.

17166618
Companies House
104
Filed UK patents
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Patent families
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The Team

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.

Abbie Youdale, Managing Director at Mickai
Managing Director

Abbie Youdale

Leads Mickai as Managing Director, with overall responsibility for how the company is directed and run. She oversees the executive team across leadership, compliance, governance and product development, sets the company's priorities and holds every function to account for delivery.

Micky Irons, Founder · CEO · Inventor at Mickai
Founder · CEO · Inventor

Micky Irons

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.

Niall Ogilvy, Chief Governance Officer at Mickai
Chief Governance Officer

Niall Ogilvy

Governance, delivery and assurance leader with more than 25 years across 11 sectors. A Royal Navy and British Army veteran with experience in defence, the NHS, transport and manufacturing, he leads clear ownership, accountability and measurable progress.

Matthew Chubb, Chief Technology Officer at Mickai
Chief Technology Officer

Matthew Chubb

Hands-on software engineering, data and AI leader who has built language models since 2017 and taken products from proof of concept to production. Leads the engineering discipline behind Mickai's Sovereign Intelligence Operating System, with a focus on customer-led design, maintainable software, rigorous testing and dependable operation beyond a demonstration.

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.