Mickai Scheduled A journal · Your sovereign deadline

About

An independent journal about timing

What Scheduled is, who writes it, and how it handles the one company its editor also runs.

Scheduled is a journal about the timing question behind AI sovereignty: not whether an organisation should eventually move off cloud AI onto infrastructure it controls, most already agree it should, but when. It covers the real deadlines, the renewal dates, the regulatory clocks, and the quiet cost of treating "later" as a plan.

Who writes it

Scheduled is edited and written by Micky Irons (Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons), founder of Mickai, a British company building a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System. He started the journal because most organisations already accept the case for sovereign AI in principle and then never act on it, because nothing ever forces the decision onto a calendar. This journal exists to put a date on it.

The one thing worth disclosing

The editor runs a company that organisations would, in practice, be moving toward if they act on this journal's argument. That is a conflict worth stating rather than hiding. The rule here is simple: Mickai is named as one destination, not the only one, and wherever it is discussed the relationship is disclosed on the page. Claims made about it are limited to what is actually built and shipped, never what is planned.

Editorial standards

  • No fabricated figures. Numbers, including regulatory dates, are stated as published and sourced, and dated where they matter.
  • No manufactured urgency. A deadline is only cited here when it is real and checkable.
  • Product status described honestly: a feature in development is called "in development", never described as shipped or available.
  • The wider field named with respect. This journal is about the timing decision, not a sales pitch against any one vendor.

The team

The people behind Mickai

Founder · CEO · Inventor

Micky Irons

Named inventor on the full portfolio of 104 filed UK patent applications, owned by Mickai LTD. Original co-founder of Collector Crypt. Engineering background in nuclear at Sellafield and fusion at the UK Atomic Energy Authority.

Chief Compliance Officer · Director

Susan Brown

Leads Mickai's compliance function and contributes board-level oversight across technology, agreements and operational delivery. Her remit includes ISO/IEC 27001 readiness, Cyber Essentials preparation, regulatory alignment and evidence-led software release governance. Founder and Chairwoman of Zortrex, Director of Company Policy, with more than 40 years of bookkeeping and accountancy experience.

Chief Governance Officer

Niall Ogilvie

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.

Chief Technology Officer

Matthew Chubb

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.

Chief Business Development Officer

Chris Williams

Technology executive in defence, AI, and blockchain, with a record of mission-critical systems and government contracts. Owns the MOD, Cabinet Office, NCSC, AISI, and Five Eyes pipeline and the sovereign-AI procurement strategy.

Head of Growth & Capital Formation

Vivek Shah

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 generated more than $1 million in ARR and led fundraising across angel, family-office and institutional investor networks.

Full bios and the complete founder story: mickai.co.uk.

Micky Irons

Micky Irons is the founder of Mickai, a British company building a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System. He writes Scheduled as an independent journal on the timing question behind AI sovereignty: when to act, and what it costs to wait.