Long-form technical essays from Mike English — Creator & CTO of IMPT.io, building Ireland's first sovereign quantum facility for Q2 2027, and running the AI Brain Workshops in Clonmel.
Most AI failures in regulated work are not model failures. They are deployment failures. Someone wired a language model to a live tool — a refund button, a cont
Read →A legal AI agent that can read every document in a firm's matter management system is useful. A legal AI agent that can also file motions, sign engagement
Read →Most partners I talk to have already bought a legal AI tool. It sits in the corner of the practice, used by two associates and ignored by the rest. The bill arr
Read →A single large language model behind a chat box is a demo. A swarm of agents acting on customer data inside a regulated business is a different beast, and the r
Read →Most Irish businesses already have an AI problem they haven't named yet. Staff are pasting client data into ChatGPT on personal accounts. The marketing int
Read →Anyone who has tried to build hard infrastructure in Ireland knows that the engineering is the easy part. The hard part is the cash. Quantum compute is no diffe
Read →Every sovereign compute project lives or dies on the same question: who pays the electricity bill on the Tuesday after the ribbon is cut. A quantum facility is
Read →Q-Day is the day a cryptographically relevant quantum computer can break the public-key cryptography that holds the modern internet together. Nobody knows the d
Read →The cold problem nobody puts on the slide deck The first thing you learn when you start costing a quantum compute build is that the qubits are the easy part. T
Read →A delivery plan is a promise with dates on it. Ireland Quantum is committed for Q2 2027, which means the work I am writing about here has to be done, gated, and
Read →Most travel sites try to do two jobs at once. They want to rank for "best eco-hotels in Galway" and they want to convert someone who already knows the
Read →Every booking on IMPT.io triggers a tonne of CO₂ being retired on-chain. That sounds clean as a sentence. As an engineering problem it is anything but. A retire
Read →Most people who book a hotel online never think about what happens behind the search box. They type a city, pick a date, see a list, click. The list feels like
Read →Every climate product I've used as a consumer has, at some point, asked me to be the hero. There's a checkbox at the end of the basket. A small extra
Read →Most token writeups start at the wrong end. They open with the price chart, then work backwards to a use case, then dress the use case in mission language. I wa
Read →Most of the carbon you emitted this year was bought from someone who never asked you a single question about it. Your electricity, your groceries, your last sho
Read →As the world moves toward sustainable energy solutions, solar energy continues to be at the forefront of the renewable energy revolution. However, despite its v
Read →As the world moves toward a sustainable and decentralized future, Web3 technology is emerging as a critical enabler in the transition to clean energy. Web3, the
Read →Introduction The conversation about sustainability is no longer limited to environmentalists—it’s now at the heart of global business, government policy, and in
Read →The carbon credit market is meant to be a cornerstone of global climate action. In theory, it allows companies, governments, and individuals to offset their gre
Read →Blockchain technology has often been criticized for its energy consumption, especially with proof-of-work (PoW) systems like Bitcoin. Yet, a new wave of green b
Read →Supply chains are the backbone of the global economy, but they are also one of the biggest contributors to environmental damage, labor exploitation, and ineffic
Read →Urban areas are home to over 55% of the world’s population, and this number is expected to rise to 68% by 2050 (UN). As cities grow, they face mounting challeng
Read →Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has become a cornerstone of corporate accountability. Investors, regulators, and consumers demand proof—no
Read →The global energy transition is in full swing. With rising adoption of solar, wind, and other renewable sources, the challenge isn’t just generating clean energ
Read →The global push for net-zero emissions by 2050 has brought climate change to the forefront of both business and policy agendas. But despite increasing awareness
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