Foaster YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Foaster went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Spring 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Alexandre CombesFounder
Raphaël DabadieFounder

What Foaster does

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.

Foaster's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Foaster, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Foaster

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native consulting for AI transformation

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Foaster to transform how companies adopt AI. Instead of just buying AI tools, we use AI agents to interview employees at scale, map out real workflows, and deliver within days a detailed, actionable roadmap for AI transformation. We then stay embedded to help track adoption, personalize upskilling, and follow up continuously, so transformation doesn't stall after planning. Our product is both the agent-driven platform and the expert consulting layered on top.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company will remain based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where our target customers for enterprise AI transformation are located, so it's the natural base for Foaster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Foaster YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Foaster's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Foaster would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.