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alec foster

chief agent officer & responsible ai lead · mma

I help enterprises ship AI agents that work in production, and keep them accountable once they're live. At the Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA), I own AI transformation end-to-end and run the AI Leadership Think Tank. I build alongside the teams I work with, in their tools and on their timeline.

  • 0 shipped Claude Skills
  • 0 trained marketing leaders
  • 0 AI workflows built
  • 0 frontier AI marketing experiments launched
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Building agents at your company?

I help enterprise teams design, govern, and ship multi-agent systems, from strategy through production. Advisory engagements, executive workshops, and embedded build sprints.

  • > agent architecture audits
  • > responsible AI governance frameworks
  • > exec & team enablement workshops
  • > embedded build sprints & advisory
  • > AI transformation strategy
  • > custom agent and workflow builds

Agent swarm visualization showing 77 simulated AI workers and orchestrators completing tasks like audit_campaign, classify_feedback, and detect_bias.

I'm a builder, researcher, and operator working at the intersection of AI capability and AI governance. My day job is the agent platform, training programs, and AI strategy for the Marketing + Media Alliance. My nights are open-source tools and writing.

Before MMA: product policy at Google, FairShake, and an internship at the White House. I hold an M.St. in AI Ethics & Society from the University of Cambridge (2023–2025) and a bachelor's from NYU in Media, Culture & Communication and Political Science. CIPP/US certified, IAPP member. Full bio and timeline here.

Recent speaking history includes AI4, POSSIBLE, Copyleaks, and MMA's own panels. I write The Eval, a weekly newsletter on AI agents in production. I run a portfolio of frontier AI experiments with MMA member brands, and ship open-source Claude skills and agent toolkits when I can.

Get in touch if you want me to speak at your event, advise on your AI rollout, or just talk through a problem.

Alec Foster speaking at the POSSIBLE conference

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> regulatory-landscape A practical map of where AI regulation actually binds marketers as of…
> organization-ai-skills A pack of Claude Code / claude.ai Agent Skills for organizational…
> rai-toolkit The governance frameworks from MMA's Responsible AI Innovation Lab…
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> guide The Content Pipeline: how I run a one-person media operation on n8n
> essay You can't copyright most of what your AI makes, and that's your smaller problem
> essay The EU AI Act is a 2026 problem for marketers, not a 2027 one