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AI-native consulting firm

Foaster is an AI-native consulting firm. Traditional consulting firms rely on teams of analysts and associates to spend weeks or months gathering information, interviewing employees, structuring findings, and producing recommendations. That model can produce valuable work, but it is slow, expensive, and limited by the amount of human time that can be deployed on each engagement. At Foaster, AI agents do most of the analytical work. They interview employees at scale, reconstruct how the organization actually works, identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and generate recommendations. A human consultant then reviews the output, challenges the reasoning where needed, and delivers the final recommendations to the client. That consultant also helps improve the system over time. This means dramatically less human time is required to deliver high-quality consulting work. What used to require months of work from entire teams can now be done in a few days with one consultant supported by AI. The result is a model that is faster, more precise, and more affordable than traditional consulting. For example, building a tailored AI roadmap for a company can be done in a few days instead of months. Because our agents can process far more organizational detail than a traditional team could realistically gather and analyze, we can reach a level of speed and precision that classical consulting firms struggle to match.
Active Founders
Alexandre Combes
Alexandre Combes
Founder
Alexandre is the co-founder and CTO of Foaster. He previously built Répondia, where AI agents handled 60k+ customer calls for major restaurant groups in France. More recently, he co-built two LLM benchmarks that reached 12M+ views and were shared by leading figures in tech. After a year spent with his co-founder Raphaël helping enterprises think through AI deployment, he became convinced the real blocker was not AI itself, but companies’ lack of visibility into how they actually work.
Raphaël Dabadie
Raphaël Dabadie
Founder
Raphaël is the Co-founder and CEO of Foaster. He started building online tennis fans communities at 11 that grew to more than 400,000 people. At 18, he joined Rafael Nadal’s team as an agent. More recently, he co-built two LLM benchmarks that reached 12M+ views and were shared by leading figures in tech. After a year helping enterprises think through AI deployment, he became convinced the real blocker was not AI itself, but companies’ lack of visibility into how they actually work.
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Foaster
Founded:2026
Batch:Spring 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne