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Foaster

The AI-native consulting firm for AI transformation.

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveB2BB2BEnterprise SoftwareAI

What they do

Problem

Companies struggle to achieve true AI transformation because traditional consulting and tool-focused adoption are too slow and shallow to redesign work across teams and workflows.

Solution

Foaster uses AI agents to interview employees at scale, map real workflows, and rapidly generate and execute an AI transformation roadmap for automation and process redesign.

Who it's for

Mid-market and enterprise organizations pursuing company-wide AI transformation across teams and workflows.

Founders

Raphaël Dabadie
Founder

Raphaël is the co-founder and CEO of Foaster. At 11, he grew a tennis fan community to 400,000+ people. At 18, he joined Rafael Nadal's team as an agent. He later became a TEDx speaker at 23 and built a public audience around consulting, writing essays that accumulated hundreds of thousands of views. Before Foaster, Raphaël and his co-founder Alexandre ran their own AI consultancy. They recently co-authored two of 2025's most viral LLM benchmarks, reaching 12M+ views.

Alexandre Combes
Founder

Alexandre is the co-founder and CTO of Foaster. Before Foaster, he built Répondia, where AI agents handled 60k+ customer calls for major restaurant groups in France. More recently, he and his co-founder Raphaël co-built two of 2025's most viral LLM benchmarks, reaching 12M+ views and being shared by leading figures in tech. They spent the last year running their own AI consultancy.

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