The UK company building the sovereign intelligence operating system.
Mickai LTD is a British company, incorporated at Companies House under number 17166618. We build Mickai®, a hardware-bound, fully offline AI operating system with a post-quantum signed audit ledger, defended by 104 filed UK patent applications. A small, accountable team in the United Kingdom owns the substrate, its patents, and every subsystem on top of it.
The people behind the substrate.
Inventor-led, exit-credentialled, defence-experienced, and engineering-deep. A small, accountable team in the United Kingdom building the sovereign substrate, its 104 filed UK patent applications, and every subsystem on top of it.
Abbie Youdale
Leads Mickai as Managing Director, with overall responsibility for how the company is directed and run. She oversees the executive team across leadership, compliance, governance and product development, sets the company's priorities and holds every function to account for delivery.
Named inventor on the full portfolio of 104 filed UK patent applications, owned by Mickai LTD. Original co-founder of Collector Crypt, now a live on-chain marketplace with more than $1 billion in transaction volume. Engineering background in nuclear at Sellafield and fusion at the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
Niall Ogilvy
Governance, delivery and assurance leader with more than 25 years across 11 sectors. A Royal Navy and British Army veteran with experience in defence, the NHS, transport and manufacturing, he leads clear ownership, accountability and measurable progress.
Hands-on software engineering, data and AI leader who has built language models since 2017 and taken products from proof of concept to production. Leads the engineering discipline behind Mickai's Sovereign Intelligence Operating System, with a focus on customer-led design, maintainable software, rigorous testing and dependable operation beyond a demonstration.
Commercial operator and capital-formation specialist with more than a decade of experience building revenue engines, go-to-market functions and investor relationships across venture-backed technology businesses. Has built commercial teams from the ground up, generated more than $1 million in ARR, and led fundraising across angel, family-office and institutional investor networks. At Mickai, leads go-to-market strategy, revenue, strategic partnerships, investor relations and fundraising as the company moves into commercial scale.
Founder and named inventor.
Micky Irons is the founder, CEO and named inventor on the full portfolio of 104 filed UK patent applications, owned by Mickai LTD. The full career history and the engineering arc into sovereign AI are on the founder page.