Micky Irons.
Founder of Mickai LTD. British serial entrepreneur. UK-based, building the Sovereign Intelligence Operating System.
Bio
Micky Irons is a British serial entrepreneur, born 24 August 1990, the founder and named inventor of Mickai LTD. Mickai is the UK Sovereign Intelligence Operating System: 50 cooperative brains, 25 domain and 25 operational, across seven subsystems, including Poseidon, the Silicon Substrate brain (Sovereign AI SoC), running on operator-personalised hardware under a post-quantum signed audit ledger. Mickai LTD is incorporated at Companies House under number 17166618, registered at 20 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, founded 19 April 2026. The portfolio is filed at the UK Intellectual Property Office across one hundred and one patent applications totalling approximately one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two claims, recorded at numbers GB2607309.8 to GB2611702.8, GB2611885.1 onwards, and GB2612762.1 to GB2612793.6 on the public register, with the Mickai trade mark separately registered at UK00004373277 (classes 9 and 42, 15 April 2026).
The career arc into Mickai runs through the Web3 product years. Micky served as Chief Marketing Officer at SportsIcon (NFT and sports-metaverse platform, October 2021 to June 2022), at MetaENGINE (cloud-based MMO game engine with native blockchain integration, January 2022 to July 2022), and as founding-team Chief Marketing Officer at Yonton Yo Studios (US-based games studio, August 2022 to March 2024). In parallel, Micky is the original co-founder of Collector Crypt, the digital trading-card marketplace that has gone on to operate as a live on-chain secondary market. He also founded the Irons Foundation (irons-foundation.io), which supports the next generation of Web3 founders. The verified career history is on Crunchbase.
From March 2024 Micky moved out of operational marketing into founder positions. From August 2025 he founded Trust Agent, the 47-point-audited AI companion marketplace, applying the cryptographic primitives developed in the Web3 years to the AI agent governance problem. In parallel, also from August 2025, he founded Mickai LTD. Trust Agent is the consumer-facing audited-AI surface. Mickai is the substrate underneath it, and the substrate underneath every other vendor that ships audited AI into a regulated environment. Mickai is the main focus today.
Mickai is the engineering response to a structural deficiency in the public-cloud AI market. Defence, government, finance, and healthcare cannot ship sensitive data to a hyperscaler API under their regulatory floor. They need an AI that runs entirely on operator hardware, with an audit chain the operator cryptographically owns. Mickai delivers that. Every action across the 50 brains is signed at commit under FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65, hash-linked, and replayable in a browser-resident WebAssembly verifier with a no-network invariant. The architecture is the differentiator. The architecture is the product.
Areas of focus
- Sovereign artificial intelligence and on-device inference
- Post-quantum cryptography (FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65)
- The Open Inter-Vendor Audit Record (OAR) and audit-substrate interoperability
- Multi-brain cooperative cognitive architectures
- Voice biometric authentication and speaker verification
- UK AI assurance, NCSC alignment, ICO Article 25 framing
- Defence, NHS, finance, and government use cases for sovereign AI
External profiles
Contact
Press and partnerships: press@mickai.co.uk. Direct enquiries: micky@mickai.co.uk. Reading list and updates at mickai.co.uk/articles.