# Common Fortune

> Common Fortune (community-fortune.vip) is a journal on the economics of digital and AI sovereignty for councils, public bodies and regulated SMEs. It covers what it costs an organisation to keep its data and AI under its own control and what it costs not to: procurement cost, vendor lock-in and switching cost, dependency on hyperscale cloud, and the cost of a data breach. It is published by Mickai LTD and written by the Mickai team.

Publisher: Mickai LTD (https://mickai.co.uk), a British company building a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System. Companies House 17166618.
Authorship: created by Micky Irons (Mickarle Wagstaff-Irons) with the Mickai team. Articles carry the Mickai team byline unless an article names a different author.
Disclosure: Common Fortune covers the economics of the whole category and treats Mickai as one option among serious alternatives. Where Mickai is discussed, the relationship is stated on the page.
Audience: councils and public bodies, regulated SMEs, and procurement, finance and risk teams.

## Articles

- [What does a data breach actually cost a UK public body?](https://community-fortune.vip/cost-of-a-data-breach-uk-public-body.html): The government's survey measures breach costs for businesses and charities, not public bodies, and not detection time. What the figures do and do not tell you. (Data & Economics, published 25 September 2026)
- [How dependent is the UK public sector on US hyperscale cloud?](https://community-fortune.vip/uk-public-sector-hyperscaler-dependency.html): Heavily, on the figures available: government procurement data and Computer Weekly's analysis of public-sector spending. Here is what the concentration actually looks like, and why it has become a sovereignty question rather than just a procurement one. (Data & Economics, published 24 September 2026)
- [Digital sovereignty in economic terms: what is actually being bought and sold?](https://community-fortune.vip/digital-sovereignty-economics-explained.html): Strip away the policy language and digital sovereignty is a set of ordinary economic trade-offs: who bears the risk, who captures the value, and who is locked in. (Explainer, published 23 September 2026)
- [Can a regulated SME actually afford sovereign AI?](https://community-fortune.vip/can-regulated-smes-afford-sovereign-ai.html): The honest framework for the cost question, without the vague reassurance or the vague fear. What actually drives the price, and how to weigh it against the cost of not doing it. (Guidance, published 22 September 2026)

## Pages

- [Home](https://community-fortune.vip/): The journal home: latest article, every article with topic filters and search, and a four-article reading path.
- [Journal index](https://community-fortune.vip/journal.html): Every article grouped by topic.
- [About Common Fortune and the team](https://community-fortune.vip/about.html): What the journal covers, who writes it, the disclosure policy, editorial standards, the outside sources the articles cite, and the six people behind Mickai.

## Machine-readable files

- [Sitemap](https://community-fortune.vip/sitemap.xml): every canonical URL with its last-modified date
- [RSS feed](https://community-fortune.vip/feed.xml): articles, newest first
- [Full text](https://community-fortune.vip/llms-full.txt): the plain text of every article in one file

## Outside sources cited by the articles

- [G-Cloud 15 tender notice](https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/067801-2025): cited in https://community-fortune.vip/uk-public-sector-hyperscaler-dependency.html
- [Computer Weekly](https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Breaking-the-stranglehold-Responses-to-data-sovereignty-risk): cited in https://community-fortune.vip/uk-public-sector-hyperscaler-dependency.html
- [Computer Weekly](https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/UK-governments-G-Cloud-15-framework-Everything-you-need-to-know): cited in https://community-fortune.vip/uk-public-sector-hyperscaler-dependency.html
- [Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/2026](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cyber-security-breaches-survey-20252026/cyber-security-breaches-survey-20252026): cited in https://community-fortune.vip/cost-of-a-data-breach-uk-public-body.html
- [Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026](https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach): cited in https://community-fortune.vip/cost-of-a-data-breach-uk-public-body.html

## How to cite

- Cite the article title, "Common Fortune", the publisher Mickai LTD, the publication date and the canonical URL.
- Example: "Digital sovereignty in economic terms: what is actually being bought and sold?", Common Fortune (Mickai LTD), 23 September 2026, https://community-fortune.vip/digital-sovereignty-economics-explained.html
- Each article opens with a short answer section that is suitable for quotation.
- Where an article cites an outside source, it links to it in the text; please cite that source directly for its figures.

## Licence and reuse

- Copyright Mickai LTD. All rights reserved.
- Quoting short passages with attribution and a link to the canonical URL is welcome.
- For any other reuse, contact the publisher through https://mickai.co.uk.

## Contact

- Publisher website: https://mickai.co.uk
- About the journal and team: https://community-fortune.vip/about.html