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AI-native consulting firm

Consulting hasn’t evolved much in decades. Yet it is still slow, expensive, and built on partial visibility. AI finally makes a new model possible. At Foaster.ai, our agents interview employees at scale, reconstruct a detailed map of how the company actually works, and reason on top of it to generate recommendations. Unlike traditional consulting, which usually relies on a limited set of interviews and an incomplete view of operations, this lets us tackle much more complex problems with far greater precision. Human experts stay in the loop to validate the output, challenge the reasoning when needed, deliver the final recommendations, and improve the system over time. We can already work with companies today on: • Process mapping: map operations you have never fully understood, yet that are critical to the business • AI roadmap design: identify at scale where AI could have the highest impact across your organization • Cost reduction: surface inefficiencies buried across workflows, teams, and day-to-day operations What used to take weeks or months can now be explored in a few days, with much greater visibility into how the company actually works. And once that operational map exists, we can solve more and more business problems on top of the same foundation without starting from scratch.
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