MICKAI
Sector · Off-grid intelligence for the systems a nation cannot afford to lose.

Critical Infrastructure, Maritime and Energy

Grid operators, port and maritime authorities, generators and pipeline operators want to run modern AI over their SCADA logs, OT telemetry and network schematics, yet NIS 2 and NERC CIP treat that data as too sensitive to place on commercial cloud, and IEC 62443 expects operational technology to stay isolated from internet-facing systems. The cloud route is effectively barred, so the analysis either does not happen or happens on spreadsheets and tribal knowledge. Mickai brings the full AI stack inside the isolated control room, on hardware the operator owns and under keys the operator holds. Predictive maintenance, vulnerability analysis and threat simulation run against live OT data while that data never leaves the building.

The problem and our solution
The buyer

Critical-infrastructure, maritime and energy operators running OT, SCADA and bulk-grid systems under national resilience mandates.

The problem

NIS 2, NERC CIP and IEC 62443 forbid OT schematics and grid data on commercial cloud, stranding these operators without a compliant path to modern AI.

Our sovereign solution

Mickai installs the entire AI stack inside the isolated control room, on owned hardware under the operator's own keys, running independent of the internet and cloud vendors.

The value

Predictive maintenance, vulnerability analysis and threat simulation run against live OT data on-site, which removes the third-party cloud-exposure vector for that data while the operator keeps its own physical, insider and regulatory controls.

The sovereign advantages

Five advantages hold across every sector, and they are architectural, not promotional. The third-party cloud-exposure vector is removed; your own physical, insider, and compliance controls remain yours.

Zero-trust data privacy

The data never leaves your hardware, so no third party and no cloud-provider employee ever sees it. What happens in the server room stays in the server room.

No vendor lock-in or outage exposure

You own the compute and the capability, so the system runs independent of the internet and of any cloud vendor's pricing, terms, or availability.

Data residency by default

The data never crosses a geographical or digital border because it never leaves the building, which removes the cross-border-transfer and third-party-processing friction of UK GDPR, Schrems II, and the sector rules. You keep your own obligations.

Proprietary advantage stays private

Fine-tune and run retrieval on your deepest archives to build a hyper-customised co-pilot, with no risk of your proprietary edge training a public model or leaking.

Predictable total cost of ownership

After the hardware and licence, queries cost essentially electricity. A capital asset you own and depreciate, instead of volatile per-token cloud bills.

The zero-espionage trust vault

There is no third-party cloud path, so no competitor and no vendor insider can scrape, intercept, or subpoena your prompts or your fine-tuned weights from the internet. The trust vault is closed by architecture.

Immunity to regulatory drift

You own the software snapshot on your own hardware, so a change to a cloud vendor's terms, a model deprecation, or an outage cannot reach you. The system stays predictable and auditable on-premise as the rules evolve.

The regulatory wedge

The specific rules that bar mainstream cloud AI from this sector's regulated data. Each one demands a named, auditable perimeter the operator controls, which a shared multi-tenant cloud cannot give.

NIS 2 Directive (EU network and information systems security for essential entities)
NERC CIP (North American bulk electric system critical infrastructure protection)
IEC 62443 (industrial automation and control systems cyber security)
National critical national infrastructure (CNI) and operator-of-essential-services regimes
Sector regulators for energy, ports and water and their resilience reporting duties
Organisations of this profile

The kind of organisation this serves, named illustratively from public information to characterise the market. These are target profiles, not customers: Mickai has no relationship, engagement, trial, or endorsement with any of them.

National GridEDF EnergyMaerskport and harbour authorities
The lead studios

The enterprise studios that lead in this sector, drawn from the eighteen that sit on the one sovereign substrate. Each runs on hardware the organisation owns, under one set of operator-held keys, writing to one Open Audit Record.

Hephaestus

Predictive Maintenance and OT

Runs predictive maintenance and failure analysis over SCADA and OT telemetry inside the air-gapped control room, so plant and grid data is modelled where it sits rather than shipped to a vendor cloud.

Nemesis

Fraud and Anomaly Detection

Performs off-grid anomaly detection and threat simulation across control-system logs, flagging abnormal command and sensor patterns without exposing the topology of the network to any external system.

Nomos

Compliance and Regulator Mode

Maps activity to NIS 2, NERC CIP and IEC 62443 obligations and produces regulator-ready evidence on-site, removing the cross-border-transfer and third-party-processing friction while the operator keeps its own duties.

Aletheia

Audit

Holds an immutable on-premise audit trail of every model query and access event, so incident investigators and auditors can reconstruct what happened without that record ever touching the public internet.

Pythia

Executive BI

Gives control-room leadership and the board a sovereign view of asset health, threat posture and resilience metrics, drawn from OT data that stays entirely within the facility.

See all eighteen on the sovereign services catalogue.

The opportunity

Critical-infrastructure operators are under simultaneous pressure to modernise ageing OT estates with AI and to keep that same data off commercial cloud, a tension that mainstream hyperscaler offerings cannot resolve. That leaves a large, regulation-protected segment of energy, maritime and utility operators with strong budgets and few compliant routes to advanced analytics.

The outcome

Money won, money saved, risk removed, on hardware you own.

Operators gain predictive maintenance and threat simulation that were previously off-limits, displacing the recurring cloud-analytics spend they could never safely commit to and reducing unplanned-outage and forced-maintenance exposure. The third-party cloud-exposure vector for OT schematics and grid data is removed; physical and insider controls remain the operator's own, and the regulatory obligations stay with the operator.

Lawful B2B engagement

Map the sovereign stack to your critical infrastructure, maritime and energy estate.

Briefings are for organisations weighing a sovereign, on-premises deployment. Tell us about your estate and we will walk the pack, the regulatory crosswalk, and the deployment that fits your estate.

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