MICKAI™
Mickai Ebook · 24 pages · 17 May 2026

What is AI? A plain-English, substrate-first introduction.

An introduction for the UK SME owner, board member, and engineer. The technology, the failure modes, the policy layer, and the substrate underneath that decides whether any of it is verifiable.

By , Founder and named inventor, Mickai LTD · Crunchbase · LinkedIn · GitHub
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Inside this ebook

An introduction to AI for the UK board member and engineer who needs to make decisions about it without a PhD. The technology, the failure modes, the policy layer, and the substrate underneath.

Part I: The Technology
1. What an AI model actually is
2. Training, inference, fine-tuning, agents
3. Where the model runs, who owns the keys
Part II: The Failure Modes
4. Hallucination
5. Prompt injection and jailbreak
6. Data leakage and shadow AI
7. Autonomous agent risks
Part III: The Policy Layer
8. UK GDPR, ICO, NCSC
9. PRA SS1/23 model risk
10. DSIT AI Cyber Security Code of Practice
Part IV: The Substrate Underneath
11. Why audit format is the trust root
12. Post-quantum signing, hash-linking, browser-resident verification
13. The procurement question every board should ask
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.