Atin Agarwal
Intelligence is becoming free. I'm building what it depends on.
When intelligence is free, value lives in what intelligence cannot generate — trust, identity, physical attestation, governance.
New · Book 1 · Out now
The AI Agent Economy
Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Industry Has No Employees
The businesses that win the agent economy won't have the best agents. They'll control the dependency layer — the invisible infrastructure agents cannot function without. This book names that layer before the world sees it.
- ✓ 15 falsifiable predictions about the agent economy through 2030
- ✓ Original "dependency layer" thesis — the infrastructure agents depend on
- ✓ Written by a practitioner running 10 ventures in the agent economy
In India? Paperback & hardcover on Amazon.in, Flipkart & Notion Press →
Kindle, paperback & hardcover — out now
Built, Not Theorized
10+
Years running IOanyT
25+
Years in technology
50+
Engineers at IOanyT
$19M
Enterprise innovations delivered
The Ventures
Each venture is built on practitioner experience — real problems, real solutions, real numbers.
Operating — Live businesses
IOanyT Innovations
Consulting · Engineering · Since 2016
A consultancy whose advice is proven by delivery: where AI can make decisions safely, proven on the client's own cases. The engine funding the entire portfolio.
VigilCloud
Managed infrastructure SaaS
Monitoring, security, compliance — with accountability. We own the outcomes, you own your sleep.
The Heartbeat
Call QA-as-a-service · AWS Marketplace
Every collection call reviewed, every risk caught — AI + human analysts covering 100% of calls, not a 5% sample.
Velmont Studio
City brand-media studio · velmont.studio
Cinematic short-form video and WhatsApp-first brand management for city businesses.
Building — The AI Agent Economy
AI Vyuh
LIVEAI agent businesses · 4 verticals live
Purpose-built businesses solving critical gaps in the AI agent ecosystem. Security, code quality, cost intelligence, and provenance — all live.
ReadTheStructure
Fintech SaaS · India-first
Market structure analysis for traders. TPO, volume profile, institutional flow detection.
Agent OS
Platform for AI agent businesses
What Shopify did for e-commerce, applied to AI agent businesses.
Physical Bridge
Physical-world attestation
When AI can fake anything digital, physical proof becomes infrastructure.
Want to work with me? At IOanyT we advise on where AI can decide, and prove it by building.
Beyond the portfolio
The Dharma Layer
Svadrishti Foundation is a Section 8 non-profit co-founded with my wife Neha — democratizing AI literacy for India's 63M MSMEs in their own languages. Not a venture. The civic counterpart to the work.
svadrishti.org →The Thesis
I've developed a framework called the Dependency Layer — a thesis on where lasting value accrues as AI intelligence commoditizes. It drives every venture in the portfolio.
Read the full thesis →Latest
15 Predictions
15 falsifiable predictions about the agent economy
Every prediction has a date, measurable criteria, and an explicit falsification trigger. Ten of fifteen are checkable by 2029. Reviewed annually and publicly.
See all predictions →Newsletter
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Weekly AI Agent Economy insights. Book chapters and predictions delivered before they're published anywhere else.
Subscribe on Substack →Speaking
Available for keynotes & podcasts
The dependency layer. One-person conglomerates. India's AI advantage. Dharma of Technology.
View topics →Recent essays
Not posts or updates. Positions — argued, dated, and defended.
- The One-Person Conglomerate Is Coming
- Why 77% Can't Get AI Agents to Production
- India Built UPI. The AI Agent Trust Layer Is Next.
- The Unit Economics of Running Ten Ventures Solo
- When Intelligence Is Free, What's Left?
- What the Gita Taught Me About Building AI Companies