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Mickai Ebook · 16 pages · 16 May 2026

The UK Procurement Checklist for Sovereign AI

A twelve-dimension rubric for evaluating any AI vendor against a UK regulated buyer's egress posture, audit chain expectation, and operational resilience plan.

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Inside this ebook

The procurement rubric ebook. Twelve dimensions, scored, with worked examples across defence, finance, pharma.

Part I: The Rubric
1. Twelve dimensions
2. Scoring methodology
3. Pass thresholds for defence, finance, pharma, CNI
Part II: Per-dimension Walkthrough
4. Architecture posture, key custody, cryptographic algorithm
5. Inference location, audit format, verifier model
6. Trust domain, air-gap, UK IPO position
7. UK regulated fit, latency, threat intelligence integration
Part III: Worked Examples
8. A defence-nuclear procurement
9. A PRA-regulated bank procurement
10. A pharma pre-clinical procurement
Part IV: Closing
11. Template procurement clauses
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.