Foaster (YC P26)
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Foaster (YC P26)
@Foaster_ai
The AI-native consulting firm for AI Transformation.

Making services scalable has been my obsession for the past two years



Foaster (@Foaster_ai) is building AI agents to replace consulting firms. They map how your company works, build your AI roadmap in days, and continuously guide adoption, upskilling, and execution. Congrats on the launch, @RaphaelDabadie and @alexcmbs17! ycombinator.com/launches/QDn-f…



To build the AI-native company @jack describes, the first step is to make the company legible. Today, most companies are too operationally complex for any human team to fully understand, with information scattered across teams, tools, workflows, and geographies. The risk is to either create a mess of fragmented AI initiatives or keep optimizing legacy processes that should have been redesigned from the ground up. Here is how we approach it at @Foaster_ai :

Silicon Valley thinks AI agents are a $20/mo self-serve subscription. Main Street is paying local agencies $10,000 just to turn them on. Everyone assumes AI will be bought primarily online like Slack or Zoom. I think they are wrong. Some of the biggest winners in the AI boom won't be the software vendors. It will be the humans installing it. Here is the reality of SMBs right now: • 54% lack internal AI expertise. • 41% have data quality too poor for AI to even work. • 41% already prefer buying AI through a local IT provider. You cannot "1-click install" a genius AI into a messy CRM or a 15-year-old server. It will just execute the wrong tasks at the speed of light. The AI software will be cheap and a lot will absolutely be bought online. Making it actually work for a messy, real-world business will be expensive. Very bullish on the "Do It For Me" economy being back.



We are joining @ycombinator to rebuild consulting for AI. 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 turn consulting missions that used to take months and rely on a partial view of the company into a few hours of reasoning, with human experts in the loop.

