About the Author

Who made this book

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.

• Gunnar Nordqvist's part. He chose the subject, set the table of contents, wrote the brief for every chapter, defined the author persona, the style guide and the rules the agents work under (all kept in the repository alongside the manuscript), reviewed every change, and approved what was published. He answers for the book: for the positions it takes, its recommendations and projections, and its bibliography. Every change reaches the manuscript through a pull request that he reads and then redirects, rejects or approves; nothing is published that he has not accepted.
• The agents' part. A team of specialist AI agents, each configured for a single role, drafted the prose against the chapter briefs: a writer that drafts sections, a researcher that locates and checks sources, an editor that applies the style guide, a critic that probes arguments for weaknesses, an architect that validates technical claims and a graphic designer that produces the diagrams. Automated checks and the formatting of the book are likewise done by tooling and agents.

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'.

For a reference such as this one the arrangement has a further consequence. Every tool in a chapter traces to an entry in an inventory of the ten earlier volumes, and every entry traces to a passage in one of them; the reader who doubts an entry can follow its Origin row to the passage. The arrangement is also an instance of what The Transformed Security Architect called Shift 4, from sole author to conductor of an AI team (6, Nordqvist, 2026).

About the person

This book, like the other volumes of The Transformed Architecture, draws on decades of practice at the intersection of enterprise architecture, infrastructure engineering, information security and organisational change. It was conceived from the perspective of a practitioner who has watched architecture move from documents to code and who has applied the same discipline to artificial intelligence. In this book, a companion to the series, that perspective is turned on the tools themselves: Tools collects the templates, software, standards and methods that the ten earlier volumes describe, so that a practitioner can find the one that the next piece of work needs.

Gunnar Nordqvist

Gunnar Nordqvist is a self-employed certified Chief Architect and IT Architect consultant in the Kvadrat network, a Swedish consultancy network of independent specialists. As an IT generalist with a deep interest in technology, Gunnar has worked across diverse roles throughout his career, including IT architect, technical project manager and systems technician.

Professional background

Gunnar's experience spans solution and enterprise architecture, IT infrastructure and information security engagements for large enterprises and public authorities. His technical background encompasses network solutions, servers, virtualisation, cloud platforms and IT security, and in recent years the architecture of data platforms and AI-enabled services in regulated settings.

Core areas of expertise:

• Solution and enterprise architecture
• Architecture as Code and Infrastructure as Code
• AI Architecture, model governance and the European regulatory framework
• IT security, risk management and compliance
• Cloud architecture, virtualisation and digital sovereignty
• DevOps, CI/CD automation and platform engineering

From Architecture as Code to Tools

Architecture as Code argued that architecture becomes trustworthy when it is codified, version-controlled and continuously validated (1, Nordqvist, 2025). AI Governance applied that argument to the risk, governance and assurance of AI (2, Nordqvist, 2026), AI Platform and Security to the platforms that run AI and the security that protects them (3, Nordqvist, 2026), AI Red Team to AI as an active part of cyber defence (4, Nordqvist, 2026), AI Threat to the question whether the dystopias of science fiction are coming true (5, Nordqvist, 2026), The Transformed Security Architect to the role of the person who designs the boundaries on which those volumes depend (6, Nordqvist, 2026), AI Boss to the management of people when AI takes part in it (7, Nordqvist, 2026), AI Blue to the team that does the defending (8, Nordqvist, 2026), AI Purple to the loop in which red and blue learn together (9, Nordqvist, 2026) and AI Operations to the team that keeps the services running (10, Nordqvist, 2026). This book, Tools, is a companion to the series, like Landscape, and has no number. It adds no new argument about AI. It gathers what the ten volumes define or use, artefacts, own tools, third-party tools and methods, and organises it by what the practitioner is doing. The conviction behind all ten books and this companion is the same: that systems of consequence deserve engineering rigour, that governance works best when it is executable, and that accountable human judgement is what remains when everything else can be automated.

The series

The ten books of The Transformed Architecture build in publication order; Tools is a companion to them. Each stands on its own, with its own numbering, bibliography, website and releases, and each refers only to the volumes before it.

Book	Title	Repository	Website
1	Architecture as Code	Geonitab/architecture_as_code	https://aac.geon.se
2	AI Governance: Governing Artificial Intelligence in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/AI-governance	https://aig.geon.se
3	AI Platform and Security: Building and Securing AI Platforms in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/AI-platform-security	https://aips.geon.se
4	AI Red Team: AI as an Active Part of Cyber Defence in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/Ai-red	https://aired.geon.se
5	AI Threat: Are the Dystopias Coming True? Evidence, Risk and Response for European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/Ai-threat	https://aithreat.geon.se
6	The Transformed Security Architect: Role, Craft and Career in the Age of AI in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/Transformed-security-architect	https://tsa.geon.se
7	AI Boss: When Artificial Intelligence Manages People in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/Aiboss	https://aiboss.geon.se
8	AI Blue: How Artificial Intelligence Transforms the Blue Team in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/Ai-blue	https://aiblue.geon.se
9	AI Purple: How Red and Blue Learn Together When AI Joins the Loop in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/Ai-purple	https://aipurple.geon.se
10	AI Operations: How Artificial Intelligence Transforms IT Operations in European Enterprises and Public Authorities	Geonitab/Ai-operations	https://aiops.geon.se
Companion	Tools: A Reference to the Templates, Software and Methods of The Transformed Architecture for European Enterprises and Public Authorities (this book; working title)	Geonitab/Tools	https://tools.geon.se

Books 2 and 3 were carved out of the combined manuscript in Geonitab/AI-Architecture. Books 4 to 10 and Tools were written new. The series landing page is https://books.geon.se.

About Kvadrat

Gunnar Nordqvist works as an independent consultant through Kvadrat, which describes itself as Sweden's largest network of self-employed consultants and has offices across Sweden.

Swedish terminology reference

Terminology note: The Swedish names used in this section keep their native form to preserve accuracy.

• Kvadrat AB – AB stands for aktiebolag, Sweden's equivalent of a limited company. The firm's name translates literally to "square" but is always written as Kvadrat in branding.
• Nordqvist – A Swedish family name combining nord ("north") and qvist ("twig"), reflecting traditional Swedish surname construction.

The book's technical foundation

All ten books and Tools are produced with the same automated publishing pipeline: Markdown manuscript, Mermaid diagrams, Pandoc and XeLaTeX for PDF, EPUB and DOCX, MkDocs for the website and GitHub Actions for continuous validation. The pipeline is itself an example of Architecture as Code applied to publishing, and its structure is described in the repository documentation. The publishing scripts of each repository are inventoried in this book and listed in Appendix A, though they are not treated in its chapters.

Sources

1. Nordqvist, G. (2025). Architecture as Code. (1, Nordqvist, 2025)
2. Nordqvist, G. (2026). AI Governance; AI Platform and Security; AI Red Team; AI Threat; The Transformed Security Architect; AI Boss; AI Blue; AI Purple; AI Operations. (2, Nordqvist, 2026), (3, Nordqvist, 2026), (4, Nordqvist, 2026), (5, Nordqvist, 2026), (6, Nordqvist, 2026), (7, Nordqvist, 2026), (8, Nordqvist, 2026), (9, Nordqvist, 2026), (10, Nordqvist, 2026)