Conceived, directed and published by Gunnar Nordqvist. The text was written by AI agents under his briefs and was reviewed and approved by him. He is not the author of the book in the ordinary sense of the word.
The same holds for every volume of The Transformed Architecture from AI Governance onwards; only Architecture as Code, Book 1, is written in the ordinary sense. What each party did is as follows.
Where this book says "the author", it means Gunnar Nordqvist in that role: the person who conceived and directed the book and answers for it, not the writer of its sentences. His part is less that of a writer at the desk than that of a conductor: setting the score, deciding who plays what, listening, stopping the orchestra and asking for a passage again. Responsibility is not divided by the division of labour. Automated checks confirm that every citation points to an entry that exists; he checks, by sampling where the volume requires it, that the sources say what the text claims, and errors that remain are his, not the agents'.
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- Who made this book
- About the person
- Gunnar Nordqvist
- The series
- About Kvadrat
- Swedish terminology reference
About Tools
Tools is a companion to The Transformed Architecture. It collects the tools that Books 1 to 10 describe in one reference, organised by what the practitioner is doing: artefacts (templates, manifests, records), own tools, third-party tools and standards, and methods. Each entry says what a tool is for, when to use it, what it needs and produces, and where the book that defines it explains the reasoning. The book covers choosing, adopting and retiring tools, architecture and delivery, governing AI, securing and testing, operating, agents and autonomy, and people, organisation and society, for European enterprises and public authorities. It comes with a template library, an inventory, three web tools and the Toolbox Maturity Method.
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.
Architects and security architects, CIOs and CISOs, platform and operations leads, heads of governance, risk, compliance and third-party risk, AI governance and AI platform teams, red, blue and purple team leads, boards and management bodies, procurement and vendor managers, supervisors and auditors, works councils and unions, data protection officers, and public-sector leaders.
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About the Author: About the Author in Tools gives the detailed explanations, practical examples and implementation patterns behind this summary.
This whitepaper belongs to “Appendices” and is one of 29 drawn from the manuscript.