Mickai Ebook · 18 pages · 19 May 2026
The Gap Mickai Fills
Where the commercial AI stack ends and the sovereign AI substrate begins. A category-defining argument for the engineering category Mickai occupies in 2026.
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Inside this ebook
The category-defining ebook for the gap in the commercial AI stack that Mickai fills.
Part I: The Commercial AI Stack in 2026
1. Foundation model vendors
2. AI security platforms
3. Agent frameworks
4. Cloud orchestrators
Part II: What the Stack Does Not Cover
5. The cryptographic substrate
6. The trust root question
7. The egress posture
Part III: The Mickai Position
8. Substrate, not platform
9. Operator-controlled, not vendor-controlled
10. Post-quantum, not classical
Part IV: The Category
11. Where Mickai sits on a buyer's vendor map
12. Closing
About the author
Micky Irons
Founder of Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618, England and Wales). Named inventor on the Mickai SIOS patent corpus, recorded on the UK Intellectual Property Office public register at numbers GB2607309.8 to GB2610422.4. Trade mark Mickai registered at UK00004373277 (classes 9 and 42, filed 15 April 2026). Before founding Mickai, Micky was a Sellafield site worker, and the egress constraint observed from inside the regulated workstation is the engineering origin of the substrate.
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