About Trust Agent

Why we are giving this away

Free AI course downloads. Workbooks by Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky Irons, published by Mickai LTD. Mickai LTD is a British company building a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System.

Mickai is not an open source project. We are building a consolidated ecosystem of software platforms, an operating system for organisations that want to own their intelligence. That work took the team a long way into what AI can and cannot do.

Along the way we learned things that are useful far beyond our own product: how agents really run, how to build a chatbot that behaves, how retrieval works, how inference engines are put together, how to judge a new model when one lands.

That knowledge should not be locked away. These workbooks are our attempt to hand it over in a form anyone can use, so people can take it and build projects of their own, and move AI forward in ways we will never think of ourselves.

We went to the depths of what is possible with AI today, and we learned a great deal building Mickai. That knowledge should not be withheld. So we are giving it to the public, for free, so anyone can take it and go and build something of their own.

The Mickai teamMickai LTD

On the purpose of Trust Agent

“free training to people who cannot afford to pay”

Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky IronsFounder and Interim CEO of Mickai

01How they are made

How these workbooks are made

By Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky Irons

Every workbook carries the byline Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky Irons and is published by Mickai LTD. The workbooks are drafted with AI assistance and checked against primary sources. A review date records a content and source check; it does not claim an independent human review.

02The team

The people behind Mickai

Trust Agent is published by Mickai LTD. These are the people behind Mickai, with the roles and profiles published on the Mickai website.

Portrait of Abbie Youdale, Managing Director

Abbie Youdale

Managing Director

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.

Portrait of Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky Irons, Founder, Interim CEO and Inventor

Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky Irons

Founder · Interim CEO · Inventor

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.

Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky Irons on LinkedIn
Portrait of Susan Brown, Chief Compliance Officer and Director

Susan Brown

Chief Compliance Officer · Director

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.

Susan Brown on LinkedIn
Portrait of Niall Ogilvy, Chief Governance Officer

Niall Ogilvy

Chief Governance Officer

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.

Portrait of Matthew Chubb, Chief Technology Officer

Matthew Chubb

Chief Technology Officer

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.

Matthew Chubb on LinkedIn
Portrait of Vivek Shah, Head of Growth and Capital Formation

Vivek Shah

Head of Growth & Capital Formation

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.

Vivek Shah on LinkedIn
Portrait of Chris Williams, Chief Business Development Officer

Chris Williams

Chief Business Development Officer

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.

Chris Williams on LinkedIn

Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons - Micky Irons, full name Mickarle Sean Junior Wagstaff-Irons. Profiles and original portraits reproduced from the Mickai website.

03About Mickai

What Mickai is

Mickai
What it is
Mickai is a British company building a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System.
Open source?
Mickai is not an open source project. This site is different: it shares what the team has learned.
Company
Mickai LTD, Companies House number 17166618
Patents
104 UK patent applications filed, 2,340 claims, none granted yet
Trade mark
MICKAI is a UK registered trade mark (UK00004373277)

04How this site works

How this site works

No accounts, no email address collected here, no tracking cookies. We count downloads and quiz completions anonymously, and the name you type for a certificate never leaves your device.

  1. Take the 2 minute quiz

    A short, friendly quiz finds where you are. Never used AI? Say so and skip straight ahead. No email needed.

  2. Get your learning path

    You get an ordered list of free workbooks that fit your level and what you want to do, from making a YouTube video to running models yourself.

  3. Download and work through it

    Each workbook is a PDF with explanations, hands-on exercises and a Q&A at the end so you can check yourself. Yours to keep, on any device.

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Licence

Free to download and use for personal learning, study groups and inside your own team. Please do not resell the workbooks or republish them as your own. Link people to trust-agent.ai instead.

Contact

Questions, corrections or ideas for a new workbook: hello@mickai.co.uk