the AI Agent Economy: Why 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 handle sales, code, support, security, and operations. This book names the infrastructure layer before the world sees it.Atin Agarwal presents the dependency layer thesis - the infrastructure play of the next decade - alongside 15 falsifiable predictions about the agent economy through 2030, each with specific criteria and timeframes. Drawing from real numbers from live agent businesses, not theory but deployed systems generating revenue, he reveals how a solo operator runs 8 AI-agent-powered ventures from India.This book is a practitioner's playbook for tech founders evaluating agent-first business models, CTOs building agent infrastructure, VCs looking for a framework to evaluate agent-economy startups, and solo operators exploring the one-person conglomerate model.