MICKAI
Sector · Special-needs records that never leave the setting

SEN and Alternative Provision

SEN and alternative-provision settings hold some of the most sensitive records in education: psychological assessments, diagnostic reports, therapy notes and the health detail that sits inside every education, health and care plan. Leaders want to automate the drafting, review and tracking of those plans and to build genuinely bespoke accommodations for each learner, but the underlying material is UK GDPR Article 9 special-category health data that should not be shipped to a public cloud or a third-party processor. Mickai puts every AI capability inside the setting, on hardware the setting owns and under keys it holds, so EHCP automation, case summarisation and accommodation planning all run locally. The data never leaves the building, and no third party ever sees it.

The problem and our solution
The buyer

SEN schools and alternative-provision settings drafting and managing statutory education, health and care plans.

The problem

Psychological, diagnostic and therapy records are UK GDPR Article 9 health data that must not leave the setting for a public cloud or third-party processor.

Our sovereign solution

Mickai runs EHCP automation, case summarisation and accommodation planning entirely on hardware the setting owns, under keys it holds.

The value

Each learner gets bespoke, well-evidenced accommodations while the health data never leaves the building and no third party ever sees it.

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.

UK GDPR Article 9, special-category health data including psychological and diagnostic records
Data Protection Act 2018
SEND Code of Practice 2015 and the statutory EHCP duties under the Children and Families Act 2014
Keeping Children Safe in Education and statutory safeguarding duties
Information Commissioner's Office, the supervisory authority for data protection
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.

specialist SEN school networksprivate behavioural clinicsalternative-provision providers
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.

Panacea

Clinical and Medical Records

Structures and summarises the psychological assessments, diagnostic reports and therapy notes that feed each plan, keeping all Article 9 health data inside the setting.

Chiron

Training and LMS

Turns each learner's accommodations into bespoke, trackable learning and intervention plans, and trains staff on the supports without exporting any pupil record.

Nomos

Compliance and Regulator Mode

Maps EHCP workflows and retention against the SEND Code of Practice and UK GDPR, and produces the evidence trail an auditor or the ICO would expect.

Xenia

CRM

Holds the relationship and casework view across pupils, families, local authorities and external professionals so every contact and review sits in one local record.

Ergon

HR

Manages the SENCo, teaching-assistant and therapist staffing, supervision and safeguarding records that underpin delivery of each plan.

See all eighteen on the sovereign services catalogue.

The opportunity

SEN and alternative provision is expanding as EHCP demand rises and settings face mounting administrative load, yet most education AI tooling routes sensitive pupil data through shared cloud services that SEN leaders are right to refuse. That leaves a clear opening for an in-house system that automates the paperwork while keeping every health record on the setting's own hardware.

The outcome

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

Settings reclaim staff hours lost to manual EHCP drafting and review and redirect them to direct support, while removing the third-party cloud-exposure vector for Article 9 health data; physical and insider controls remain the setting's own. Recurring per-seat cloud-AI subscriptions are displaced by capability the setting owns outright, and the cross-border-transfer and external-processing friction is removed, though the setting keeps its own data-protection and safeguarding obligations.

Lawful B2B engagement

Map the sovereign stack to your sen and alternative provision 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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