Sarthak Aggarwal
Technical builder in Bengaluru. Founder of Decawork AI, where computers do the tedious work so humans don't have to - a level of convenience he is still waiting for his apartment building to discover.
Falling, with conviction
At Skydive Monterey Bay he steps out of a perfectly functional aircraft at 18,000 feet on purpose. The fall is the easy part. The hard part is the form.
He is pursuing the banana arch with the seriousness most people reserve for a mortgage: hips forward, chin up, limbs relaxed into a confident curve. In practice this means arguing with physics at terminal velocity while an instructor mouths the word "ARCH" directly into his face.
- Technique under review
- Banana arch (curvature: aspirational)
- Breathing protocol
- Screaming, to cycle the air through his lungs
- Current objective
- AFF solo license
- Ground-level confidence
- Considerably higher than airborne
He will tell you the screaming is a recognized technique for forcing exhalation in freefall. It is. It also sounds exactly like a man screaming.
His life, reviewed
On Letterboxd he is sarthak4, and he watches an alarming number of films, each logged with a short, dry verdict. In the interest of consistency, he has also reviewed the only feature he cannot rewatch: his own life.
"Slow first act, no clear stakes, and the protagonist keeps doing IT automation as a personality. Strong production design in the freefall sequences. Marked down for the recurring three-hour stretch every afternoon where the plumbing simply stops working. Will watch the sequel out of obligation."
Other recent log: gave a critically beloved festival darling two stars and a one-line review. He stands by it. He always stands by it.
The 1 PM to 4 PM problem
He lives in Splendor Complex, C Tower, Zone-3, Bengaluru, where the water supply has opinions. Between severe shortages and a pipeline that requires daily repair, the taps go dry every afternoon from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Like clockwork. The one thing in the building that is reliable is the unreliability.
- Shower. Coffee. Brief sense of stability.
- Final pre-cut hydration. Fill every bottle in reach.
- Supply offline · pipeline 'under repair'
- Protein shakes negotiated against remaining reserves
- Water returns. Trust does not.
Showers and protein shakes are now scheduled around the outage with the kind of logistical care normally applied to flight manifests. He has, in effect, become a part-time dispatcher for his own faucet.
Decawork AI
His B2B SaaS startup, automating the IT work nobody enjoys: password resets, access requests, and the long tail of tickets that turn IT teams into a help desk. Software resolves them in seconds, without a human in the loop.
The premise is sound: he is genuinely good at making complex systems run themselves. The irony is that the most broken infrastructure in his life is the literal pipe in the wall, and there is no API for that yet.
Never be cringe
He has a personal brand, and the entire brand is not having one. No "I'm thrilled to announce." No screenshot of a revenue chart with the numbers blurred. No thread that opens with "Most founders get this wrong." He would rather ship quietly and let the work speak, ideally in a calm, indoor voice.
Yes, this is a website about himself, with a stats grid and a section called "his personal brand." He is aware. The cringe is coming from inside the house. He has decided to be at peace with that.
Recovery, frugally
He recently got a WHOOP, which now quietly judges his sleep, strain, and recovery around the clock. It wants 90-120g of protein a day. He wants to stay alive at the pre-seed stage. These two goals are in active negotiation.
- Daily protein target
- 90 - 120g
- Budget posture
- Very frugal (pre-seed)
- Resolution strategy
- Buy in bulk, ration like a sommelier
- Hydration dependency
- See section 03
The shakes, naturally, must be mixed before 1 PM or after 4. Recovery is a solved problem. Recovery on a budget, during a water cut, is a roadmap.