The AI Agent Economy: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Industry Has No Employees

By Atin Agarwal

Book Overview

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.

But the businesses that will dominate won't be the ones with the best agents. They'll be the ones that control the dependency layer - the invisible infrastructure that agents cannot function without.

This book names that layer before the world sees it. It makes 15 specific, falsifiable predictions about how the agent economy will unfold by 2030. And it provides a practitioner's framework for founders entering this new world.

What you'll learn:

Why the dependency layer (orchestration, trust, identity, attestation) is the trillion-dollar infrastructure playHow one person can run 10+ businesses with AI agents as their primary workforce - with real numbersWhy agent economics break every traditional business model when workforce costs approach zeroWhat India's structural advantages mean for the global agent economyA Gita-informed ethical framework that Western tech ethics is missing

Written by a founder actively running 8 ventures in the agent economy - not theory, but documented practice. For tech founders, investors, operators, and anyone building in the next economy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9358900628
• ISBN13: 9789358900620
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Svadrishti Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"