How does a sealed AI audit ledger survive a reboot without phoning home?

A sealed AI audit ledger survives a reboot because its trust anchor is bound to a hardware root of trust, a TPM or secure element, and re-derived through measured boot. The genesis entry is sealed at provisioning, so verification stays fully offline with no phone-home.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/how-a-sealed-ai-audit-ledger-survives-a-reboot. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 104 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).