Hugo He
Hugo He is an individual finance professional and independent open-source creator, not an organization. He turns complex professional work into reusable products and public resources, with a focus on investment analysis, data visualization, AI workflows, and native-editable PowerPoint generation.
At a Glance
- Finance and investment professionals
- Consulting and engineering teams
- Businesses and management teams
- Researchers and academics
- +3 more
AI Tools by Hugo He
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PPT Master
AI Agent Skill for PowerPoint
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Latest News
ppt-master v6.7.0 released: browser review page for design specifications, Nano Banana 2.1 as the default Google image model, and fixes for source conversion and PPTX/SVG text round-trips.
ppt-master v6.6.0 released after end-to-end runs covering hyperlinks, Quick, native PPTX editing, templates, layout templates, visual review, EPUB/RST sources, multilingual decks, and more.
ppt-master v6.5.0 released with improvements to native PPTX round-trip editing, template creation/consumption, staged installation, and tooling.
ppt-master v6.4.0 released with fixes across source conversion, multilingual text measurement, native charts/tables, export, animation, preview, and workflow quality gates.
Products & Services
MIT-licensed open-source AI workflow/skill that converts topics and PDF, DOCX, web, Markdown, EPUB, and RST sources into native-editable PowerPoint. It can also create and use templates, edit existing PPTX files, add transitions, animations, narration, and generate data-backed charts and tables.
Early-trial web tool for investment, revenue, cost, debt-service, profit, cash-flow, balance-sheet, IRR, NPV, sensitivity, and break-even analysis, with Excel and Word export; aimed especially at energy projects such as wind, solar, and storage.
Interactive public-data products covering second-hand home transaction prices and volumes, and a national second-hand-home listing-count time series.
Visualization of Chongqing first-hand residential online-contracting data.
Market Position
Hugo positions ppt-master against AI presentation tools that output flattened images or shallow text-filled templates. Its differentiators are native PowerPoint object depth, editable data-backed charts and tables, template reuse, local execution, model/agent flexibility, and an open-source workflow rather than a closed subscription platform. The trade-off is that users need Python and an agent/model, and the model still determines output quality.
Leadership
Founders
Hugo He (何雨果)
Finance professional with 10+ years in investment and financing work. His background includes Loncin Industries (2015–2017), Deloitte Consulting (2017–2018), Red Star Macalline (2018–2022), and a power-utility engineering design institute in Chongqing (2023–present). He identifies as a CPA, CPV/asset appraiser, and Consulting Engineer (Investment), and holds an international economics and trade degree from Chongqing University.
Founding Story
Hugo He created ppt-master from a recurring professional problem: AI-generated slides often look acceptable but arrive in PowerPoint as flattened images that cannot be edited. He wanted a workflow that reasons about content and design, then exports real PowerPoint shapes, text boxes, charts, tables, masters, animations, and speaker notes; he released it as a free open-source project and continues to maintain it independently.
Business Model
Revenue Model
ppt-master is free and open source with no PPT subscription; users supply their own agent/model access and pay only for any AI-model usage. The project also accepts sponsorships. Hugo's construction-evaluation site is described as an early trial with limited free runs for initial accounts, but no broader pricing plan is stated.
Pricing Tiers
MIT-licensed; runs through agent-capable AI tools, with AI-model usage as the user's separate cost.
The README describes these initial free-run terms for the early trial.
Target Markets
- Finance and investment professionals
- Consulting and engineering teams
- Businesses and management teams
- Researchers and academics
- Educators and students
- Developers and AI-agent users
- Investment committee materials, feasibility studies, valuation and financing presentations
- Business reports, management briefings, and company presentations
- Research papers converted into talks, posters, videos, and blogs
- Education and courseware
- Data-heavy presentations with editable charts and tables
- Users who need to generate and continue editing real PowerPoint files locally