Hercule
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveCentralizes deal documents and company data into a searchable knowledge base for venture capital due diligence.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $99/seat/mo
- Billing
- Per seat, monthly
Starter is $99 per user per month for up to 5 reports a month, Professional $179 per user per month for up to 15; both include 2 free reports and are sold through a contact form. Enterprise is custom-priced, and the FAQ says API access is offered to enterprise customers.
Use tool ↗About Hercule
Hercule is built for venture capital and growth-investment teams researching a company before a deal decision. It pulls data-room documents, call notes, and other fragmented sources into one searchable knowledge base per deal, and an AI assistant answers questions against that base instead of a person paging through PDFs manually. Early adopters named on the site include SC Ventures, Morph Capital, and Bifrost, and one client testimonial claims an 80 percent cut in research time. Pricing is per user per month: Starter at $99 covers up to 5 reports with two included free, Professional at $179 raises that to 15 reports, and Enterprise is custom-quoted for larger teams.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page lists Starter $99 and Professional $179 per user per month with 5 and 15 reports a month, 2 free reports included, and a custom Enterprise tier (15 October 2026)hercule.ai ↗
- Pricing FAQ says API access is offered to enterprise customers and uploaded data is not used for model training (15 October 2026)hercule.ai ↗
- Terms and conditions state they are governed by the laws of Denmark (15 October 2026)hercule.ai ↗
Is Hercule legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Sep 22, 2020 (6 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 17, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 29, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- HerculeOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Hercule
Hercule is narrowly built for one job — turning a pile of deal documents into a searchable base an analyst can question directly — rather than trying to be a general research tool. The per-user, report-capped pricing is steep for a solo angel investor but plausible for a fund with a dedicated deal team, and there is no free tier to test report quality first.
Pros
- Centralizes scattered deal documents into one searchable base per company
- AI assistant answers direct questions instead of just returning document snippets
- Report cap scales with plan tier, so heavier users have a clear upgrade path
Cons
- No free tier — the report cap starts counting from the first paid month
- Per-user monthly pricing scales up fast for a larger deal team
- Report volume is capped even on the higher Professional tier
Best for
- VC and growth-equity teams doing repeated company due diligence
- Analysts who need to search across data-room documents quickly instead of reading each one
Not for
- Solo angel investors doing only a few deals a year
- Anyone who wants to try it without paying for a per-user seat first
Watch out: The report count is a hard monthly cap per plan, not unlimited use, so a busy diligence month can run out of reports before the month ends.
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