Draft:Mickai


Mickai
DeveloperMicky Irons (Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons)
Initial release5 May 2026; 33 days ago (2026-05-05)
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Linux, macOS
Platformx86-64, ARM64
StandardsOAR (Open Audit Record), FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65
TypeArtificial intelligence operating system, on-device AI runtime
LicenseProprietary
Websitemickai.co.uk

Mickai is a sovereign artificial intelligence operating system developed in the United Kingdom by Micky Irons (Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons), a British software developer based in Cumbria.[1][2] The platform runs all model inference on the user's own hardware, without cloud round-trips or third-party telemetry, and bundles a large-language-model runtime, a voice interface, a browser-automation layer and a signed-audit ledger into a single desktop application.[3]

By the time of its public launch on 5 May 2026, Mickai's developer had filed 31 patent applications at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) covering the platform's architecture and primitives. The portfolio totals 914 formal claims and is recorded on the IPO public register at numbers GB2607309.8 to GB2610422.4. Coverage extends to a hash-chained audit-record format signed under ML-DSA-65 (the post-quantum signature standard published as FIPS 204),[4] trust-domain externalisation, decision-lineage attestation, browser-resident verification, and per-actuator signing for embodied-AI applications.[3][5]

The trade mark MICKAI was registered at the UK IPO on 15 April 2026 in Nice classes 9 and 42 (software and software-as-a-service) under registration number UK00004373277.[2] The supplier entity, "Mickai", was incorporated as a private company limited by shares in England and Wales on 17 April 2026 under registration number 17166618; Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons is recorded at Companies House as the sole director and person with significant control.[1]

Background

The Mickai project is held privately by its developer, who is named as the inventor on every patent application in the portfolio.[3] The first application in the family, GB2607309.8, was filed at the UK IPO on 30 March 2026 via the office's standard "Apply for a Filing Date" pathway.[6] Successive batches were filed throughout April, with a final group of ten new applications submitted on 4 May 2026, the day before the platform's public launch.[5]

Each application is a complete specification accompanied by claims, an abstract, prior-art search, drawings, and IPO Form 1 metadata in line with the office's filing requirements.[6]

In published material, the developer has framed Mickai as a response to a market gap identified in the Dataiku Global AI Confessions Report of February 2026, which surveyed senior data and AI leaders and reported that a substantial majority were unable to attest to the provenance, governance or auditability of their generative-AI deployments.[7]

Architecture

Mickai uses a microservices architecture in which discrete services handle distinct cognitive functions, communicating over a local message bus.[3] The development team has described the topology by analogy to regions of the human nervous system: a perimeter and policy filter (Sentinel), a reasoning and orchestration service (Cortex), a memory store (Hippocampus), a personality and tone service (Amygdala), and a complement of 25 domain-specialist services for tasks such as code generation, voice synthesis, satellite-imagery decoding and document indexing.[3]

The platform ships with a set of purpose-tuned large language models, ranging in capacity from a 1.1-billion-parameter model targeted at low-power and embedded hardware to a 32.5-billion-parameter model for workstation deployments. A compatibility shim exposes Mickai through the public OpenAI application-programming-interface schema, allowing existing client software written for that interface to address Mickai as a drop-in alternative.[3]

A built-in satellite-imagery decoder allows Mickai to receive and decode passes from weather and amateur-radio satellites when paired with a software-defined radio receiver such as an RTL-SDR or AirSpy device.[3]

The voice subsystem provides spoken interaction with the operating system.

Sovereignty model

The defining design choice of Mickai is that, by default, no model inference, telemetry or third-party application-programming-interface call leaves the user's local network. The platform is designed for environments in which data residency, regulated-industry compliance, and post-quantum cryptographic durability are formal procurement requirements.[8]

A separate "air-gap deployment kit" is published for environments in which outbound network access is administratively or contractually forbidden, with documentation citing healthcare, defence and legal-services use cases as the intended audiences.[3]

The Mickai patent portfolio includes a specification for an "Open Audit Record" (OAR) format,[3] a hash-chained, append-only record of agent decisions signed under an operator-controlled ML-DSA-65 key, with an offline browser-resident verifier. The format predates by four weeks the joint advisory on agentic-AI security published on 1 May 2026 by the Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, ASD ACSC, the CCCS, the NCSC New Zealand and the UK NCSC), which describes the absence of a verifiable audit substrate as a critical-infrastructure exposure.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Mickai (Company number 17166618)". Companies House. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Trade mark UK00004373277, MICKAI". UK Intellectual Property Office. 15 April 2026. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Patent applications GB2607309.8 to GB2610422.4 (inventor: Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons)". UK Intellectual Property Office. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  4. ^ Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard (Report). National Institute of Standards and Technology. August 2024. FIPS 204. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  5. ^ a b "One IPO Search: published patent applications by inventor "Wagstaff-Irons"". UK Intellectual Property Office. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  6. ^ a b "How to apply for a patent: filing date and search". GOV.UK, Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom). Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  7. ^ Global AI Confessions Report (Report). Dataiku. February 2026. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  8. ^ "Migrating to post-quantum cryptography". National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom). Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  9. ^ "Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services (joint advisory)". CISA / NSA / ASD ACSC / CCCS / NCSC New Zealand / UK NCSC. 1 May 2026. Retrieved 6 May 2026.


Category:2026 software Category:Artificial intelligence Category:British software Category:Free and proprietary software Category:Large language models Category:Operating systems Category:Software developed in the United Kingdom Category:Post-quantum cryptography

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