Micky Irons.

The thesis is structural. The cloud era of AI was a leasehold on the audit log. The next era is a freehold on the chain. The substrate that makes the next era possible is engineered, not promised: Open Audit Record (OAR) signing with FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65, hash-linked CBOR, browser- resident offline verifier, cross-implementation byte-equivalent conformance test, three-domain trust separation, twenty-five specialist brains under a deterministic arbiter, Vinis voice federation, and hardware-bound identity under operator custody. The Mickai SIOS ships every one of those primitives as of 15 May 2026.

The substrate is the foundation of a UK-built, regulated-buyer-grade sovereign AI category, filed at the UK IPO and intended for global protection through the 2026 to 2028 PCT national- phase programme. The investor brief documents the round structure ( v3, May 2026). The patent register is public. The substrate runs.

The first 31 filings sit on the UK IPO public register at numbers GB2607309.8 to GB2610422.4 (March 2026). The four new May 2026 filings cover cross-implementation byte-equivalent OAR verification, pluggable post-quantum and classical signing with on-record algorithm dispatch, federated multi-engine voice cloning behind a single typed surface, and audit-by-default sovereign command-line trace. Every May 2026 filing has a demonstrable working artefact in the Mickai SIOS code tree, which materially strengthens novelty and reduces examiner narrowing risk on prosecution. The trade mark UK00004373277 (classes 9 and 42, Mickai) covers software products and software services.