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The AI-native consulting firm for AI transformation.

Spring 2026Founded 20262 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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AI Transformation ConsultingServicesEnterprise C-suite, digital transformation officersHigh competition
Moat
Agentic consulting novel; proprietary agent frameworks; customer relationship and strategic insights.
Key risk
Incumbent consulting (Accenture, BCG, McKinsey) adding agents; hard to differentiate on ROI; agent mistakes damage credibility.
Why now
Enterprise confusion on AI transformation; consulting budgets shifting; agentic consulting more scalable than manual.
Competitors
Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, emerging AI consulting firms

About

Foaster is the AI-native consulting firm for AI transformation, powered by agents instead of armies of consultants. Companies are spending millions on AI tools, pilots, workshops, and roadmaps. But most confuse AI adoption with AI transformation. Adoption is buying tools. Transformation is understanding how work should change across every team, workflow, and role. Traditional consulting moves too slowly for that: a few interviews, a few workshops, a static roadmap, then the company is left to execute. Foaster uses AI agents to go much faster and much deeper. Agents interview employees at scale, map how work actually happens, and build in days a roadmap showing what should be automated, redesigned, or improved first. Then Foaster stays embedded to keep the transformation moving through adoption tracking, deeply personalized upskilling, and continuous follow-up. The result is the precision and scale of AI, with human experts brought in where judgment, expertise and implementation matter most.

Founders · 2

Alexandre Combes
Alexandre CombesFounder

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 DabadieFounder

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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