AISelfi.es Review: AI Headshots for Your Personal Brand, Without the Studio

Most of us need a decent professional photo maybe once every few years — a new job, a refreshed LinkedIn, a speaker bio. And most of us put it off, because a real studio session means finding a photographer, booking weeks out, paying $150–$500, and standing in front of a lens pretending to look relaxed. AISelfi.es is built for the people who never get around to that. You hand it a batch of selfies, it hands back a set of polished headshots, and the whole thing costs less than dinner for two.

What AISelfi.es actually is

AISelfi.es bills itself as "the AI photographer for your personal brand." Practically, it's a headshot generator: you upload your own selfies, it trains a private AI model on your face, and then it produces professional-looking portraits of you in different outfits, settings, and expressions. The site says it has generated more than 102,000 photos to date, and it's run by founder Jon Kraayenbrink.

The framing is squarely aimed at personal branding rather than novelty avatars. The output is meant for LinkedIn, a CV, an "about" page, or a conference profile — the places where a sharp, consistent photo quietly does a lot of work. The homepage leans hard on a single comparison: a traditional shoot costs $150–$500 and takes one to two weeks to deliver edited files; AISelfi promises the same end result in minutes, for a one-time fee.

How the workflow goes

The process is the standard "train, then generate" loop that most AI headshot tools use, with one wrinkle: AISelfi says model training is now effectively instant, so you upload photos and can start generating right away rather than waiting an hour. Finished images are ready in one to two minutes per batch, and you pick from more than 100 outfit and style presets rather than describing a look from scratch.

The quality of what you get back depends heavily on what you put in, and the FAQ is refreshingly direct about this. It tells you to upload a varied mix — close-up selfies and full-body shots, different angles, locations, clothing, and expressions — and to avoid group photos, other people in frame, sunglasses, hats, or anything where your face is cut off. It accepts JPG, PNG, and HEIC, but not WebP or AVIF, so newer phone exports may need converting first. None of that is unusual for the category, but it's the kind of guidance that separates a good result from an uncanny one, and it's worth following before you spend a cent.

Do the photos actually look like you?

This is the only question that matters for a headshot tool, and it's also where every AI generator has to be judged honestly. AISelfi's own example gallery is genuinely strong — the sample LinkedIn portraits look like studio work, with natural lighting and believable backgrounds.

But examples are curated, and likeness is the hard part of this technology. The FAQ states plainly that "how much the photos resemble you depends on the quality and variety of the photos you upload" — the model can only learn from what it's shown. That's the right expectation to set. The most useful caveat actually comes from one of the testimonials the company features on its own site: asked whether this is the same as a real photo session, the reviewer answers, "No, it's not the same." AI headshots in 2026 are very good at "professional and plausible." They are not a substitute for a photographer who can capture a specific expression you're after, and AISelfi doesn't pretend otherwise.

What it costs

Pricing is where AISelfi makes its clearest case. There's no subscription — you pay once. The Starter pack is $29 for 40 photos; the Pro pack is $39 (marked down from $49) for 100 photos at 4K quality. Both come with a 100% money-back guarantee within seven days, which meaningfully lowers the risk of trying it.

That one-time structure is a real differentiator. A lot of AI headshot services either bill monthly or bury the per-photo cost in credit bundles, and it's easy to forget you're still being charged. Paying $29–$39 once for a folder of usable photos is simple to reason about. One small wrinkle: the Pro tier is listed at slightly different prices across the site's own pages (the FAQ quotes it at $49), so the discounted $39 you see on the pricing page may be a running promotion rather than a permanent number. Check the pricing page for the current figure before you buy.

Where it falls short

Two honest caveats beyond the likeness point.

First, AISelfi.es is a Spanish-first product. The site, the blog, the prompt library, and most of the marketing are in Spanish, and the testimonials are largely from Spanish-speaking LinkedIn creators. There's an English version reachable from the language toggle, but it's only partially translated — a few key pages rather than the whole experience. If you don't read Spanish, you can still get through the core flow, but it won't feel as polished as a native-English competitor.

Second, independent validation is still thin. There's a low-traction "Show HN" post and a small, vendor-adjacent set of Product Hunt reviews, but no broad third-party discussion — no Reddit threads, no large pool of outside reviews to triangulate against. That doesn't make the tool bad; it makes it young. The seven-day refund is your best safety net here, and you should treat it as the real trust signal rather than the five-star marketing badges.

On the plus side, your uploads and trained models are kept private and, per the company, deleted after 30 days — a reasonable stance for something built on photos of your face. The platform also bundles a handful of small free extras (a free headshot generator, a profile-photo analyzer, a background remover, a LinkedIn post formatter) that round out the personal-branding pitch.

Who it's for

AISelfi.es makes the most sense for a specific person: a freelancer, consultant, content creator, or early-career professional — especially in the Spanish-speaking world — who needs a credible profile photo now and can't justify a few hundred euros for a studio session. For that buyer, $29 and a refund guarantee is an easy experiment. If you're an executive who needs one perfect, on-brand portrait and has the budget for a real photographer, this isn't a replacement — and the company is honest enough to say so itself. Go in with good input selfies and realistic expectations, and it's a fast, low-risk way to stop using that cropped vacation photo on LinkedIn.

Sources consulted

• AISelfi.es homepage — product positioning, the studio-session comparison, and the 102,000+ photos figure
• AISelfi.es FAQ — the workflow, input guidance, accepted file formats, likeness caveat, and privacy stance
• AISelfi.es pricing page — current pack pricing, one-time structure, and refund guarantee
• AISelfi.es llms.txt — founder attribution, 30-day deletion policy, and money-back terms
• Show HN on Hacker News — independent (if low-traction) launch signal
• AISelfi.es reviews on Product Hunt — third-party user ratings (small, vendor-adjacent sample)