Insights

Carbon, climate credits & AI in travel.

Essays by Michael English — founder & CTO of IMPT. Offsetting done honestly, government-supervised climate credits, and what production AI agents actually change.

Building IMPT

What a 30-million-user fintech platform taught me before IMPT existed

What broke at 30 million users, what a sold startup taught about unit economics, and how both shaped IMPT's lean, verification-first architecture.

2026-09-13 Deep Tech

NISQ reality check: what our quantum work actually is (and isn't)

Physical qubits vs logical qubits, what QAOA can and can't do today, and an honest line between the cryptography migration that's real and the optimisation work that's still research.

2026-09-13 Deep Tech

FIPS 203, 204 and 205 — the post-quantum standards, explained for people who ship software

A practical guide to ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA — and how software teams should start the migration.

2026-08-31 Carbon & Climate

Climate credits with a government registry behind them — what Catalonia changes

Why regional-government verification beats voluntary-market ambiguity — and what being the first registered intermediary means.

2026-07-08 Carbon & Climate

The honest maths of carbon-neutral hotel booking

Fund the offset from your own margin and make it unconditional — why the surcharge model fails and the default model compounds.

2026-07-08 AI Technology

AI agents are travel's new front desk

Operating rules from a year of running a production AI sales and support agent: verified actions, tool-fetched facts, honest escalation.

2026-07-08 Carbon & Climate

The offsetting critics are half right — and the fix is verification, not abandonment

Additionality, permanence, licence-to-pollute: taking the critiques seriously, and what supervised registries actually fix.

2026-07-08 Building IMPT

One partner per territory: how local ownership scales climate commerce

Exclusive territories, revenue share and local knowledge — why decentralised ownership beats central marketing.

2026-07-08 Building IMPT

Building an AI-first travel company from Clonmel

Scale by specification: AI does the operations, humans own the judgment — the honest anatomy of a small team running a global platform.

2026-07-08 Deep Tech

Ireland's sovereign quantum window — why now

Sovereign compute, the post-quantum transition, and why the window for an Irish facility is open now.

2026-05-07 Commerce

Notes from inside a 20,000-brand sustainable marketplace

Field notes on sustainable e-commerce at scale.

2026-05-07

In the media

Independent coverage of IMPT — the platform I founded and build as CTO.

Google Cloud · 3 September 2026

Google Cloud publishes the official IMPT case study

How IMPT automates carbon offsetting with AI on Google Cloud — 8 million listings across 195 countries.

Irish Independent · 3 September 2026

Irish climate-focused loyalty programme IMPT secures partnerships in India, Mexico and Georgia

IMPT’s international expansion includes new partnerships in India, Mexico and Georgia.

BM.GE · 3 September 2026 · Exclusive

როგორ გეგმავს IMPT საქართველოს მასპინძლობის სექტორის მოდერნიზაციას

How IMPT plans to modernise Georgia’s hospitality sector — exclusive.

Travel Extra · 25 August 2026

Green commerce platform IMPT reports 273pc transaction growth as green commerce platform moves to global trading system

Travel Extra reports IMPT’s H1 2026 results, including 273pc transaction growth and its move to a global trading system.

Tipp FM & Clare FM · 11 July 2026

Mike English on Catalonia’s climate-credit system and Irish tillage-farmer credits

Mike English, Founder & CTO of IMPT, discusses IMPT’s intermediary role and climate credits for Irish tillage farmers.

Travel Extra · 20 June 2026

Tipperary based travel disrupter IMPT launches next phase of growth strategy

Travel Extra covers the next phase of IMPT’s growth strategy from its Tipperary base.

The Sunday Times · 14 June 2026 · Print edition

“We built a carbon-neutral hotel booking app for good people”

Linda Daly interviews Mike English about IMPT, the $700bn hotel market and the role of AI agents in travel.

Business Plus

Irish company IMPT selected for Catalan climate credit initiative

IMPT set to become the first registered intermediary under the Generalitat de Catalunya's Climate Credit system — opening verified local climate action to everyday consumers. (July 2026)

Yahoo Finance

$30 million fundraise to accelerate IMPT

Yahoo Finance on the $30M raise powering IMPT’s growth across green commerce and travel.

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Featured on YouTube

Industry summit keynote: Denis Creighton & Mike English

IMPT - The Planet's Loyalty Programme

World Blockchain Summit · YouTube · Apr 2023 · 17 min

Altcoin Daily features IMPT

This New Crypto Coin Is About To Save Earth (100x Potential)

Altcoin Daily · YouTube · Aug 2023