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Alex Babin Is Making AI Do the Work Nobody Puts on a Slide
After two decades of chasing hard technical problems, the Hercules co-founder has settled on a stubbornly practical thesis: AI becomes valuable when it checks every invoice, contract and exception before the mistake gets expensive.
HerculesAI
HerculesAI (formerly ZERO Systems) is a Campbell, California enterprise AI company that builds a verification layer for documents and transactions in regulated, data-intensive industries. Founded in 2017 by Alex Babin and Gevorg Karapetyan, it trains and orchestrates ensembles of specialized mid-sized AI models -- 'AI workers' -- to read unstructured documents, reconcile data across systems, and validate every transaction against contracts, rates, policies, and regulations. Originally focused on legal billing and time capture, Hercules now targets order-to-cash operations across finance, insurance, and staffing, counting Fortune 500 clients including Mercer, S&P, and State Farm.