Question 1

What is Mickai?

Accepted Answer

Mickai is a sovereign AI operating system engineered in the United Kingdom. It runs entirely on-device, binds identity to hardware, signs every decision under post-quantum cryptography (ML-DSA-65, FIPS 204), and produces a deterministic decision lineage suitable for regulatory audit. The architecture orchestrates 25 specialist domain brains under a deterministic arbiter.

Question 2

Who built Mickai?

Accepted Answer

Mickai was designed and built by Micky Irons (Mickarle Sean Junior Wagstaff-Irons), the founder and named inventor. He authored 31 filed UK patent applications covering 914 claims under application UK00004373277, all filed in person at the UK Intellectual Property Office. Mickai is held privately by its founder.

Question 3

What is sovereign AI?

Accepted Answer

Sovereign AI is an AI system in which the operator owns the audit chain, the signing keys live in operator-controlled hardware, and any third party can verify decisions without trusting the vendor. Sovereignty is an architectural property, not a marketing claim. Cloud-dependent, telemetry-emitting, vendor-controlled-key systems are not sovereign regardless of how they are described.

Question 4

How many patents does Mickai have?

Accepted Answer

Mickai has 31 filed UK patent applications totalling 914 claims, all under application UK00004373277, named inventor Micky Irons. Each filing contains a full specification with claims, abstract, prior-art search, drawings, and Form-1 metadata, on the public record at the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Question 5

Is Mickai offline?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Mickai runs 100% offline by architecture. There is no telemetry, no silent call-home, no cloud synchronisation, and no third-party identity provider in the trust path. Inference, retrieval, signing, and verification all happen on operator-controlled hardware.

Question 6

What is the Open Audit Record (OAR)?

Accepted Answer

OAR is a vendor-neutral schema for signed agent action records, filed under Mickai patent application Family-022. Any OAR-compliant vendor can produce records that any OAR-compliant verifier can validate, externally and offline. OAR is paired with a browser-resident post-quantum verifier (Family-023) and a trust-domain externalisation pattern (Family-024).

Question 7

What cryptography does Mickai use?

Accepted Answer

Mickai signs every commit-bound action under ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204 post-quantum digital signatures). The audit ledger is hash-linked and append-only. Signing keys are hardware-bound and operator-controlled. The chain remains valid through the post-quantum transition that classical-signature systems will not survive.

Question 8

Where is Mickai based?

Accepted Answer

Mickai is engineered in the United Kingdom, in Cumbria. The patent portfolio is filed at the UK Intellectual Property Office in Newport. Mickai is held privately by Micky Irons. There is no parent operator and no licensing intermediary.

Question 9

How does Mickai compare to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google?

Accepted Answer

Mickai is the sovereign alternative. Cloud-frontier vendors hold the audit chain, the signing keys, and the trust root. Mickai gives all three to the operator. The structural test is whether a third party can verify a decision in a browser the vendor does not host, under a key the vendor does not hold. Mickai produces that record by construction.

Question 10

Can I get access to Mickai?

Accepted Answer

Mickai is in pre-order. Regulated-sector and institutional deployments are taken via the Business Audit form on mickai.co.uk/business-audit. Press enquiries go to press@mickai.co.uk. General enquiries go to hello@mickai.co.uk.