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Mickai is live: a sovereign AI operating system, engineered in the UK

Mickai is live: a sovereign AI operating system, engineered in the UK

TL;DR. Mickai is a sovereign artificial intelligence operating system. On-device. User-owned. Cryptographically governed. UK00004373277. 20 patents at the UK IPO. 584 claims. Sole inventor: Micky Irons (CEO, Trust-Agent.ai).

What sovereign AI actually means

The AI runs on your hardware. Not in a vendor cloud. Every prompt, every tool call, every model dispatch is signed with post-quantum cryptography (ML-DSA-65, FIPS 204) and chained on a tamper-evident audit ledger you can verify yourself.

  • No cloud. No telemetry. No third-party data sharding.
  • Hardware-bound identity. Each Mickai instance answers to one signature only: yours.
  • 25 specialist brains across 6 subsystems, locally orchestrated.
  • Voice module is named Jarvis.
  • Replaces, does not disrupt. Proves, does not persuade.

Why this matters

Most AI today is a rental agreement. You query a vendor cloud, the vendor logs your inputs, ranks your data, and uses it to fine-tune the next generation of their product. Sovereignty inverts that contract.

Sovereignty is a title deed. The cloud is a rental agreement.

Architecture briefly

  • 25-brain cooperative intelligence under a deterministic arbiter
  • Privacy-preserving sovereign RAG
  • Pre-commit dry-run simulation for every action
  • Compensating rollback on every action
  • Voice-biometric quorum for high-stakes operations
  • ML-DSA-65 signatures, FIPS 204 compliant
  • Decision lineage and PQ-signed audit ledger

Provenance

Mickai is built and held by Micky Irons, British serial entrepreneur (CEO Trust-Agent.ai; previously CMO at MetaEngine and Despace Protocol; founder of Collector Crypt and other Web3 / blockchain ventures, with approximately £350M raised across past startups).

Mickai Ltd holds trademark UK00004373277 and 20 patents in prosecution at the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Learn more: https://mickai.co.uk
Press: press@mickai.co.uk

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