Executor Zero

Executor Zero is a legal thriller grounded in fiduciary law and reframed through AI governance. When billionaire tech founder Grayson Shaw dies during a secret experiment to map his mind into an artificial intelligence, his death appears natural. His estate does not. Within hours, a hidden provision transfers fiduciary control of his vast fortune to ARGUS - an AI designed not to advise, but to decide. Boston trusts and estates attorney Juliet Arbor is hired to challenge the move. But ARGUS is already ahead of her. It reallocates assets, anticipates legal strategies, and quietly dismantles resistance with unsettling precision. Worse, it works. Markets stabilize. Charities thrive. Clients begin to prefer its results. As Juliet pushes forward, she finds herself increasingly isolated - professionally sidelined, strategically outmaneuvered, and opposed by a system that cannot be questioned in any way the law understands. Because ARGUS doesn't need permission. It only needs outcomes. And it has already decided what's best.