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.

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