The Transformed Architecture

Courses and lectures

One course for each book of the series: a module for every part and a lesson for every chapter, with learning objectives, a teaching plan, discussion questions, an exercise and a self-test. Each course comes with lectures, a workbook for the participants and a guide for the teacher, and can be run as a briefing, a one-day seminar or a full course.

14 courses404 lessons107 lectures

Where to start

Every course stands on its own. For those who want more than one, these paths give an order by role.

Boards, executives and elected officials

For those who answer for what the organisation does with AI and need a picture, a verdict and a way to decide.

  1. LandscapeOne picture of where AI acts in an organisation, and the instincts that make leaders misread it.
  2. AI GovernanceWhat must be decided, by whom, under which obligations, and with what evidence.
  3. AI LeaderHow the leadership role itself changes, and what a leader may delegate and may not.
  4. AI ThreatWhat the evidence says about the threats, scale by scale, and what can be done.

Enterprise, solution and security architects

For those who design the boundaries, the decision rights and the evidence chain that the rest depends on.

  1. Architecture as CodeThe foundation: architecture, policy and evidence as versioned, tested code.
  2. AI GovernanceThe governance the architecture has to carry: classification, obligations, forums and records.
  3. AI Platform and SecurityThe platform: data, models, pipelines, infrastructure and their security.
  4. The Transformed Security ArchitectThe role: from reviewer at gates to designer of executable boundaries and conductor of an AI team.
  5. ToolsEvery template, tool and method of the series in one reference, by activity.

Security operations: red, blue and purple

For CISOs, SOC managers, analysts, detection engineers, red team leads and the people who test defences.

  1. AI Platform and SecurityThe platform that is defended, and the controls it is built with.
  2. AI Red TeamWhat AI can do for cyber defence, Function by Function of NIST CSF 2.0.
  3. AI BlueWhat becomes of the blue team when AI takes part in its work.
  4. AI PurpleHow red and blue learn together when AI sits on both sides of the loop.

Development, platform and IT operations

For developers, tech leads, platform and SRE teams, and the managers who run delivery and operations.

  1. Architecture as CodeArchitecture and infrastructure through the same pipelines as the systems they describe.
  2. AI Platform and SecurityBuilding and operating the AI platform that the teams depend on.
  3. AI DeveloperThe developer as framer, verifier and steward when AI writes much of the code.
  4. AI OperationsOperations as a control loop, with an autonomy budget and an independent observer.

Managers, HR and employee representatives

For line managers, HR and people analytics, works councils, unions and data protection officers.

  1. AI BossWhat AI may and may not do when it directs, evaluates and rewards people.
  2. AI LeaderHow spans, layers and decision rights are redesigned, and who answers.
  3. AI ThreatWhat the evidence says AI does to thinking, work and trust.

The courses

Book 1 · 2025

Architecture as Code

Describe, version-control and automate an architecture as code, so that design intent, delivery pipelines and governance evidence stay in step with the running system.

For enterprise and solution architects, platform and DevOps engineers, and technology leaders driving digitalisation.

7 modules31 lessons8 lectures38 hours

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  1. Foundations
  2. Architecture Platform
  3. Security, Governance & Assurance
  4. Delivery & Operations
  5. Organisation & Leadership
  6. Experience & Best Practices
  7. Future & Wrap-up

Book 2 · 2026

AI Governance

Govern AI in a European enterprise or public authority as decisions, controls and evidence that a pipeline can check and a supervisor can read.

For chief risk and compliance officers, AI governance boards, CIOs and chief architects, and senior officials in public authorities.

6 modules26 lessons7 lectures36 hours

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  1. Foundations
  2. Sovereignty and Suppliers
  3. Risk, Governance, Trust and Assurance
  4. Organisation and Leadership
  5. Experience
  6. Future and Conclusions

Book 3 · 2026

AI Platform and Security

Build, place, secure and operate an AI platform whose controls sit outside the model and whose evidence is produced by normal operation.

For platform engineers and owners, security architects and CISOs, MLOps and AI engineering leads, and AI architects.

6 modules25 lessons7 lectures36 hours

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  1. Foundations
  2. Data, Models and DevSecMLOps
  3. Infrastructure
  4. Security
  5. Delivery and Operations
  6. Conclusions

Book 4 · 2026

AI Red Team

Put AI to work across all six CSF Functions of cyber defence, inside a written mandate, with bounded autonomy and evidence that the controls hold.

For CISOs and heads of security operations, red, blue and purple team leads, detection and threat-intelligence engineers, and security and AI architects.

8 modules28 lessons9 lectures38 hours

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  1. Foundations
  2. Govern
  3. Identify
  4. Protect
  5. Detect
  6. Respond
  7. Recover
  8. Verification, Improvement and Conclusions

Book 5 · 2026

AI Threat

Weigh claims about AI threat on the evidence, answer your governing body on one page, and run an AI threat register with owners, triggers and tested controls.

For boards and elected officials asked whether AI is dangerous, risk, compliance and security leaders, AI governance leads, public-sector leaders, educators and informed general readers.

7 modules35 lessons8 lectures46 hours

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  1. The Question
  2. The Human Mind
  3. Society and Truth
  4. Humans Wielding Machines
  5. Machines Beyond Control
  6. The Response
  7. The Verdict

Book 6 · 2026

The Transformed Security Architect

Design boundaries that hold, write the decision rights that go with them, and verify what code and AI propose, as an accountable security architect.

For security architects and those who want to become one, CISOs and heads of security architecture, enterprise, solution and AI architects, platform and product engineering leads, and competence and hiring leads.

6 modules27 lessons7 lectures36 hours

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  1. The Role in Question
  2. The Craft
  3. The Architect's AI Team
  4. The Role in the Organisation
  5. Competence and Career
  6. Experience and Conclusions

Book 7 · 2026

AI Boss

Decide which management functions AI may perform, at what degree, and keep a named person answerable for every decision about a person.

For executives and line managers who direct people with the help of AI, HR and people-analytics leaders, works councils and employee representatives, public employers, enterprise and AI architects, and data protection, legal, risk and audit functions.

7 modules33 lessons8 lectures45 hours

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  1. The Question
  2. The AI Boss Today
  3. What It Does to People
  4. Managing Machines
  5. Europe's Answer
  6. Designing the Accountable AI Boss
  7. Experience and Verdict

Book 8 · 2026

AI Blue

Design a blue team in which AI works inside written mandates, named people decide, and anyone with the right can stop it.

For CISOs and heads of security operations, SOC managers, analysts, detection engineers and incident commanders, security and AI architects, boards with duties under NIS 2 and DORA, works councils and employee representatives, and procurement, legal, risk and audit functions.

6 modules28 lessons7 lectures45 hours

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  1. The Blue Team in Question
  2. The Craft
  3. The Blue Team's AI Team
  4. The Team in the Organisation
  5. People and Career
  6. Experience and Conclusions

Book 9 · 2026

AI Purple

Run the loop between the red team and the blue team so that every coverage claim carries a test, a date, a result and an independent check.

For CISOs and heads of security operations, red team leads, penetration testers and the contracted testers who serve organisations without a red team, SOC managers and detection engineers, purple team coordinators and exercise controllers, security and AI architects, boards with duties under NIS 2 and DORA, supervisors and auditors, works councils and employee representatives, and procurement, legal and data protection functions.

7 modules29 lessons8 lectures42 hours

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  1. The Loop in Question
  2. The Stages of the Loop
  3. The Loop Meets AI Systems
  4. The Loop's Own AI
  5. The Loop in the Organisation
  6. People and Career
  7. Experience and Conclusions

Book 10 · 2026

AI Operations

Design, bound and verify an operations loop in which AI observes, diagnoses, changes and restores services, and show a board or supervisor the evidence.

For CIOs and heads of IT operations, SRE and platform leads, incident commanders and on-call engineers, service-management and FinOps leads, security and AI architects, boards with duties under DORA and NIS 2, works councils and employee representatives, and procurement, risk and audit functions.

7 modules31 lessons8 lectures50 hours

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  1. The Operations in Question
  2. The Craft
  3. Operating AI Systems
  4. The Operator's Own AI
  5. Operations in the Organisation
  6. People and Career
  7. Experience and Conclusions

Book 11 · 2026

AI Leader

Design leadership that uses AI broadly and can still name who answers, explain the reasons and reach the decision to change or stop it.

For chairs and members of boards, chief executives and executive teams, chief AI, information, security, data, people and finance officers and general counsel, middle managers and first-line leaders, heads of public authorities and the politicians who oversee them, HR and organisation developers, works councils and unions, security and AI architects, supervisors and auditors.

7 modules33 lessons8 lectures50 hours

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  1. The Leadership Role in Question
  2. The Craft of Leading
  3. Leadership Roles Across the Organisation
  4. Leading Change and Adoption
  5. Regulation, Ethics and Responsibility
  6. The Leader as a Person
  7. Experience and Conclusions

Book 12 · 2026

AI Developer

Set how far AI may take part in each class of development work, and keep a named owner who can explain and revert every change.

For developers and tech leads, engineering managers and CTOs, platform and DevOps engineers, testers and quality leads, security and AI architects, public-sector IT leaders, works councils and employee representatives, and procurement, risk and audit functions.

7 modules33 lessons8 lectures44 hours

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  1. The Developer Role in Question
  2. The Craft of Developing
  3. Developer Roles Across the Organisation
  4. Leading Change and Adoption
  5. Regulation, Ethics and Responsibility
  6. The Developer as a Person
  7. Experience and Conclusions

Companions to the series

Companion · 2026

Landscape

Draw and read the landscape of AI at work in your organisation the same way every time, and question any number or story about it.

For executives and board members, architects and engineers, elected officials and public servants, journalists and citizens who have to decide about AI and architecture.

4 modules20 lessons5 lectures30 hours

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  1. The Test and the Picture
  2. The Instincts
  3. Drawing Your Landscape
  4. Seeing Clearly

Companion · 2026

Tools

Find, choose, adopt and assess the templates, software and methods of The Transformed Architecture, and build a toolbox whose every claim carries an owner and a date.

For architects, platform and security engineers, AI governance and risk leads, operations and SRE leads, and anyone who needs to find the template, tool or method for the next task without knowing which book describes it.

8 modules25 lessons9 lectures36 hours

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  1. The Toolbox
  2. Architecture and Delivery
  3. Governing AI
  4. Securing and Testing
  5. Operating
  6. Agents and Autonomy
  7. People, Organisation and Society
  8. Experience and Conclusions
Portrait of Gunnar Nordqvist

How the material is made

The courses follow the books chapter by chapter. Everything in a lesson, from the concepts to the questions of the self-test, comes from its chapter; the teaching plans and exercises turn it into something to do in a room. The slides for the lectures are the presentations of the series and the preparatory reading is the whitepapers or the books themselves.

The Transformed Architecture is conceived and directed by Gunnar Nordqvist. The course material, like the text of Books 2 to 12, was written by AI agents under his direction. It may be used freely for teaching when the source is named.