653. Harsh Aggarwal, How AI Lets Solo Consultants Take On Bigger Work

653. Harsh Aggarwal, How AI Lets Solo Consultants Take On Bigger Work

From Unleashed - How to Thrive as an Independent Professional by Will Bachman

July 6, 2026 · 22 min

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Harsh Aggarwal discusses how Restack, an AI agent, helps solo consultants automate the creation of client-ready presentations.

Show Notes: Update since recording: Restack has since moved to one simple plan at $800 per seat per month, and now works across PowerPoint, Excel, and Word as a single agent. Harsh Aggarwal is the founder of Restack, an AI agent that works inside PowerPoint to turn a consulting or PE team's analysis into a client-ready deck. He was previously at Roland Berger and product lead at an $8B PE firm. Restack: From Thinking to a Client-ready Deck Harsh explains that Restack is an AI agent that works natively inside PowerPoint to automate formatting for consulting and private equity teams. The purpose of Restack is to help consulting teams focus on client relationships and actual consulting work by automating the grind of formatting. Harsh highlights the historical advantage big firms had due to their production capacity, using McKinsey as an example. He discusses how AI has closed the research gap but the production gap remains, which is where Restack aims to help by automating the process of turning thinking into a client-ready deck. A Restack Demonstration Harsh begins demonstrating Restack by sharing his screen and showing a standard PowerPoint deck. He explains that Restack opens as…

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Host: Will Bachman

Guest: Harsh Aggarwal

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Organizations: Restack, Roland Berger, $8B PE firm, McKinsey

Products: Restack

Books & works: PowerPoint, Excel, Word

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