This appendix holds the complete versions of the artefacts that Chapters 1 to 30 show in part. Each artefact keeps the field names, identifiers, names and dates of the chapter that owns it, so that the appendix and the chapter can be read side by side. Where a chapter excerpts an artefact, the appendix gives the whole file; where two chapters touch the same artefact, the chapter that owns it governs and the other is noted. The fictional organisations Nordvik Region and Hansa Mutual are described in the book's example profiles; every person, record and figure here is illustrative. Every YAML and JSON block parses and is meant to live in version control; the Rego block is illustrative and is not executed by the build. No artefact is attack tooling, and no artefact contains data about a named member of staff beyond what its purpose line allows.
Each section states the chapter that introduces the artefact, what it is for and what it must never contain. Legal references in the artefacts are organisational and architectural implications, not legal advice.
1. Start from the decision, not from the file. Pick the leadership decision class (strategic, resource, structural, people, risk, external, crisis) and write its delegation profile (A.3) first. Every other artefact either serves that profile or is checked against it.
Primary topics explored
- How to use this appendix
- Identifier families
- A.1 Leadership decision profile
- A.2 Load map
- A.3 Delegation profile
- A.4 Answerability and ceiling check
About AI Leader
AI Leader is Book 11 of The Transformed Architecture. It takes leadership as its subject and asks what happens when AI is used broadly: the five leadership functions (orient, decide, organise, enable, answer), the delegation ladder and the Level 4 prohibitions, the answerability principle (name, explain, reach), the span and the middle layer, human-agent work, the board and the management body, change and adoption as claims that need evidence, regulation (the AI Act, DORA, NIS 2, the GDPR), ethics and sovereignty, and the leader as a person, for European enterprises and public authorities.
It builds on the conclusions of Architecture as Code, AI Governance, AI Platform and Security, AI Red Team, AI Threat, The Transformed Security Architect, AI Boss, AI Blue, AI Purple and AI Operations.
chairs and members of boards, chief executives and executive teams, the changing C-suite, middle managers and first-line leaders, heads of public authorities and the politicians who oversee them, HR specialists, works councils and unions, architects who advise leaders, and supervisors and auditors.
Gunnar Nordqvist
Conceived, directed and published the books of The Transformed Architecture.
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Appendix A: Appendix A: Code Examples: Delegation, Decision, Role, Accountability and Mandate Records in AI Leader gives the detailed explanations, practical examples and implementation patterns behind this summary.
This whitepaper belongs to “Appendices” and is one of 37 drawn from the manuscript.