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Foaster

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Foaster is building the AI-native McKinsey, starting with AI transformation.

We deploy AI agents that interview a company's employees at scale, map how work actually gets done, identify bottlenecks and AI opportunities, and draft a transformation roadmap in just 2 weeks. Expert consultants review the final outputs, add judgment where it matters, and feed their corrections back into the system.

We believe current AI models already have the capabilities required to automate most of the work consultants do. But traditional consulting firms use them to improve the old model: helping consultants work faster.

Foaster is instead rebuilding a new model from scratch, where agents do the work that needs scale and humans review the final outputs, bring expertise, and improve the system overtime.

We are starting with AI transformation, then progressively expanding to more and more consulting projects using the same approach. Every mission creates structured knowledge from interviews, workflow maps, recommendations, and expert corrections, so the system gets better with every client engagement.

The $500B consulting market will eventually be run by our AI agents and a small number of expert humans.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Raphaël Dabadie

Founder/CEO

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.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Alexandre Combes

Founder/CTO

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.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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