Zohar Babin

CSO at Kaltura, the Agentic DX Platform. Chief Troublemaker everywhere else.

Dreaming, Building, Breaking, & Shipping agentic AI, research and personal fintech. Open-source advocate. Advisor. Adrenaline junkie. Carnivore. A dad who's also a kid.

About

~20 years helping grow Kaltura from an open-source disruptor into a market-leading public company in Agentic AI. Building and advocating open source since 13yo. Enthusiastic about agentic AI harnessed for good — for education, health, art, honest discourse, and open collaboration.

This page indexes my recent open source work and writings: agentic AI systems, AI-powered M&A due diligence, enterprise AI governance, verification-first tools that trace and explain AI, and AI tools for personal finance — plus articles, decks, and other musings.

Chief Troublemaker at heart — happiest breaking things to build them better. My special power is turning chaotic, cross-disciplinary problems into shipped products. I also advise founders, boards, and investment committees in AI, media, and developer platforms, and occasionally invest in early-stage startups.

Featured Projects

Web Researcher MCP

Your AI research assistant for any MCP client — web search, content extraction, and multi-source deep research. Every result is cited to the real source. Free, private, open source.

★ 63 40k+ downloads 80+ releases 30+ tools 14 search providers Academic · patents · filings Written in Go · Python bindings Docker · Homebrew · winget · uvx
GoMCPAIResearch
Due Diligence Agents

Forensic M&A due diligence powered by 13 specialized AI agents across 9 domains — Legal, Finance, Cyber, HR, ESG, and more. Every finding traced to an exact page and quote.

★ 112 10k+ downloads 26 forks 13 AI agents 9 domains Citation-verified, not RAG Anthropic · Bedrock · Vertex · gateway
PythonMulti-agentAIFinance

63,000+ downloads across PyPI, Docker, npm and GitHub releases. 485+ GitHub stars across 48 public repos. 130+ tagged releases. 450+ merged PRs across open-source projects, including Microsoft's winget-pkgs. Packaged for winget, Homebrew and Scoop. Featured in awesome-mcp-servers, awesome-go and awesome-legaltech.

Writing & Talks

Article
Sloptimization, AI Citation Rot, and the Tools That Fight Back
Why AI assistants confidently cite sources that don't exist — and how to build tools that actually verify their own claims.
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Article
Claude Fable 5: When to Reach for the Frontier — and When Not To
A model-routing framework built from auditing ~20 active projects against what Fable 5 actually changes — and the cost math behind when it's worth it.
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Deep Dive
From Node.js to Go: Rebuilding an MCP Server for Production
Why Web Researcher MCP was rebuilt from scratch in Go — orphan processes, single-provider risk, and the production issues a rewrite actually fixed.
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More Writing & Talks
Deep Dive Building a 13-Agent AI System for M&A Due Diligence: Architecture Deep Dive ↗ Article Why Your AI Coding Assistant Is Failing You — and How to Fix It ↗ Article AI Assistants Lie About Citations. Here's How to Catch Them. ↗ Article Building Software with an AI Agent Swarm in Roo Code ↗ Deck Compliance as Architecture ↗ Deck Due Diligence Agents — AI-Powered M&A Due Diligence ↗

More Projects

AI Agents & Research
Zero-dependency JavaScript SDK for conversational AI avatar agents: provision, configure and measure them, then run them live in any web page.
JavaScriptAgentsAvatars GitHub 📖 Docs
Open blueprint for scalable AI agent swarms in enterprise product development — governance, compliance, and architecture.
SpecAgentic AI GitHub 📖 Docs
Developer Tools & CLIs
Debug and fault-test any WebRTC session. Chrome extension, MCP server for AI coding agents, npm library and Playwright plugin.
MCPWebRTCClaude Code500+ npm downloads GitHub 📦 npm 🌐 Chrome
Show local time on every Claude Code message and let Claude know when each prompt was sent. Zero-config, cross-OS.
Claude Code GitHub
Enforce brand writing guidelines in Claude Code — PostToolUse hook + MCP server + CLI.
Claude CodeMCP GitHub
Extract, analyze, and forecast SEC EDGAR filings — metrics, growth rates, automated reporting.
PythonFinance11k+ downloads GitHub 📦 PyPI
Apps
Native Swift/SwiftUI Markdown editor for macOS and iOS. Live preview, Mermaid, math and maps. Local-first, no telemetry.
SwiftmacOSiOS GitHub 🌐 fen.md
Earlier Work
Real-time Telegram channel monitoring with AI briefings. Multi-pane TUI dashboard with Claude-powered analysis, translation, and urgency scoring.
PythonClaude GitHub
Claude Code skill for SaaS technology reconnaissance — finds every site embedding a target company's tech using OSINT.
Claude CodeOSINT GitHub
Analyze GitHub organization statistics with multiple auth methods and output formats.
Interactive app that summarizes WhatsApp group chats, highlighting key moments, trends, and personalized year-in-review.
Transforms audio into karaoke-style highlight videos — transcription, crossfading, waveform overlays, subtitles.
PythonVideo GitHub