Book cover: The AI Agent Economy — Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Industry Has No Employees, by Atin Agarwal

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The AI Agent Economy

Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Industry Has No Employees

We are entering an economy where AI agents are the primary workforce — not assistants to humans, but autonomous actors that build, transact, monitor, and decide.

The businesses that win 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, makes 15 falsifiable predictions about how the agent economy unfolds by 2030, and gives founders a practitioner's playbook to build within it.

Kindle eBook · Release: July 1, 2026 · Publisher: Swadrishti Publications · ASIN: B0G6JQ3FK5

Paperback & hardcover editions coming soon.

Inside the book

15 falsifiable predictions

Specific, timestamped, measurable claims about the agent economy through 2030. No hedging.

The "dependency layer" thesis

Original framework naming the invisible infrastructure agents cannot function without.

One-person conglomerate model

Real numbers from 8 ventures — what works, what doesn't, and why.

Gita-informed ethical framework

Dharma as a lens for the machine age — where philosophy meets practice.

Written by a practitioner, not an observer

Atin runs 8 ventures in the AI agent economy from India. Every argument is grounded in lived experience.

Chapter preview

10 chapters · 60,000–75,000 words

01

The Invisible Workforce

Agents are already here. Most people haven't noticed.

02

The Dependency Layer

The thesis — the infrastructure agents cannot function without.

03

The One-Person Conglomerate

Running 10+ businesses solo with real numbers.

04

Agent Economics

The unit economics of an agent-first business.

05

The Trust Problem

Why attestation becomes infrastructure.

06

India's Agent Advantage

A non-Silicon-Valley perspective.

07

The Vibe Coding Crisis

What happens when anyone can ship code.

08

Dharma of the Machine Age

Gita-informed ethics for agent builders.

09

The 15 Predictions

Falsifiable. Specific. By 2030.

10

The Builder's Playbook

How to build within the agent economy today.

About the author

Atin Agarwal

Atin Agarwal is an AI Agent Economy founder building from India. 25+ years in tech, 150+ client engagements, 8 ventures in the agent economy — including IOanyT Innovations (AWS Advanced Partner), VigilCloud, and AI Vyuh. This is his first book.

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