The Hidden Layer is about what actually happens when AI gets deployed inside real companies: the workflows, the vendors, the failures, the economics, and the operating systems that emerge when it works.

It’s written by Ankit Gordhandas, founder of Eigenomic, the studio that builds custom AI agents for operations-heavy businesses.

Three things live under this roof:

The Brief: a weekly letter taking apart what’s really happening inside AI deployments. A few minutes to read, built to be forwarded.

The Podcast: real deployments taken apart episode by episode. Start with Klarna’s Failed AI Deployment Didn’t Actually Fail.

The Essays: longform pieces for operators, starting with What is an AI agent?

It’s for people who run things: managing partners, firm owners, PE operating partners, COOs. If you can read a P&L, you can read this.