# headless.design — full context Gustaf Garnow — Forward Deployed Designer, Stockholm. Embeds with the product and ships it end to end: research to live code. Ten years as a digital designer in Swedish pensions (AMF Pension), then four products shipped end-to-end in four months. **Open to Forward Deployed Designer, product design and design engineering roles. Available now. Based in Stockholm, also working across Malmö and Copenhagen in the Öresund region, or remote across CET.** Email: gustaf.garnow@gmail.com · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gustafgarnow/ ## The role Forward Deployed Designer: a designer embedded where the product meets its users, who designs it, writes the code that runs, and stays with it until it works in the field. Adapted from Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineer. The full definition, with the difference from a product designer and a design engineer: https://headless.design/forward-deployed-designer ## How he works Research, decisions and craft stay his; AI takes the repetition. He does not hand off a design file and wait — if something has to be built to be judged, he builds it. A recurring thesis across the products: everything he makes shows its source and its confidence. ## Work ### infra.opensverige.se https://headless.design/portfolio/infra-opensverige A verified comparison of Swedish and European AI infrastructure, for companies that need to know which providers fall outside US access laws. Every field carries one of four evidence states — confirmed, own word, planned, unknown — with a source link and a date on the field rather than the page. 350+ sourced facts, 121 models indexed. The weekly scraper may never overwrite a verified value; contradictions go to a review queue and are settled by hand. Designed and built solo, released through the OpenSverige community. The launch post has passed 17 000 impressions, 97% of them outside his own network at launch, 297 click-throughs. ### Kammaren https://headless.design/portfolio/kammaren Open-source tax engine for Swedish corporations. An LLM classifies, code computes — no language models in the arithmetic. 978 000 test cases and 0 SEK deviation against Skatteverket, 304 golden cases CI-gated, statute citation on every value. AGPL-3.0. ### agent.opensverige.se https://headless.design/portfolio/agent-opensverige A scanner that answers whether a site is ready for AI agents to read it. 30 seconds, no signup. ### OpenSverige https://headless.design/portfolio/opensverige Sweden's most active community for AI builders. Gustaf founded the nonprofit association behind it and runs it: brand, space and the rituals that make people stay. 384 on Discord in three months with no paid acquisition, weekly sessions and hackathons across Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo. Startups have been founded by people who first met at a Sunday session. The Gothenburg node now meets without him. ### OpenSverige sidekicks https://headless.design/portfolio/opensverige-sidekicks Three AI agents Gustaf designed, built and runs for OpenSverige, in Discord threads where everyone can see. Supergrok-Handen researches with members (web and X search, sources last). Paragraf is for the board only: statutes, tax, the decision log and reminders, and it rates the consequence before it answers. The goal is for it to run the whole non-profit, with the board as the human in the loop. Redaktionen drafts and a human publishes. Hermes Agent (open source, Nous Research) is the runtime; Gustaf built the personas, guardrail plugins, hooks, scripts, eval and ops. Three isolated gateways on one Mac mini, model-agnostic (Grok today, for X search), guardrails before and after the model, run over Tailscale. Deterministic evals, no LLM judge: Paragraf went from 7 to 13 of 14 after three bugs in the guard were fixed, then 10 of 10 on unseen questions; Supergrok-Handen said no to all five traps and went from 7 to 9 of 14 after three tighter format lines, then 5 of 5 on unseen questions. 167 threads; 17 of 26 members came back another day. Every morning at 07:00 Supergrok-Handen also posts a short LLM digest in #llm-news; when it was paused, members asked where it went. ### Frilanspengen https://headless.design/portfolio/frilanspengen A comparison tool for the Swedish freelance economy where every value cites its source. ### LINJEN https://headless.design/portfolio/linjen An art installation with Johan Nygren: a concrete phone booth on a field on Österlen where an AI operator from 1962 answers the receiver and connects visitors onward. England, Moscow, Peking, or a household in the district. No computer in the booth: an industrial SIP phone over 4G, Twilio, ElevenLabs and Supabase. Twelve voices, six languages, one agent; call numbers so far are bench data from development. The public line has been offline since 5 September 2026: to run on its own it needs a battery and solar panels, and that needs funding. The installation's own page: https://www.baltsar.art/linjen ### Finstilt https://headless.design/portfolio/finstilt A pension site you cannot skim, live at https://finstilt.site. The refund cover (återbetalningsskydd) is one checkbox in the Swedish occupational pension that decides whether your family or other savers get the money when you die, and most people never chose how it was set. Eleven folios, one gesture each: the consequence comes before the explanation. A medieval manuscript corrupted by pixels, a quiet interface with three loud heirlooms, a documented design system (Provboken), Swedish, English and Arabic, no cookies. Concept, copy, design and code by Gustaf; illustrations generated in Flora. He built it after working at a pension company, and after his father's pension went to the collective. ### The build behind this site https://headless.design/api The agent pipeline that produced headless.design, kept as a case study. ## Languages English is canonical at the root. Swedish mirrors live under /sv/ and differ only in language — /sv/, /sv/portfolio, /sv/portfolio/. ## Status The cold-read API pilot is CLOSED. There is no paid service, no pricing and no order endpoint to call. What was built is kept as a case study at /api. ## API The build behind this site is also an API — agent-native cold-reads for landing pages. - Index: https://api.headless.design/v1 - OpenAPI 3.1: https://api.headless.design/v1/openapi.json - Agent card (A2A): https://api.headless.design/.well-known/agent-card.json - llms.txt: https://api.headless.design/llms.txt - Catalog (RFC 9727): https://headless.design/.well-known/api-catalog - For humans: https://headless.design/api