Joseph West, founder of AI Headshots
Founder · AI Headshots & Studio Pod

Joseph West

Joseph is a photographer who spent years behind the camera working out what actually makes a headshot land — then built a studio to do it on repeat, and an AI to do it without a camera at all.

PhotographyAutomated studiosAI imagingHouston, TX
Inside Studio Pod — the automated headshot studio in Houston
How it started

We started with a camera. The AI came second.

Before AI Headshots existed, Joseph built Studio Pod — an automated headshot studio in Houston. Professional lighting, real cameras, a process tuned so every walk-in left with a photo they were proud of.

Thousands of sessions later, the same patterns kept surfacing: which lighting actually flatters a face, which angles read as confident vs stiff, where retouching helps and where it strips the person out of the photo. That hard-won craft is what AI Headshots was designed around.

We are photographers who built an AI — not a software team retrofitting open models on stock photos.

What we've built

Two ways to the same photo.

Since 2019

Studio Pod

An automated headshot studio in Houston. Walk in, stand on the mark, walk out with a professional headshot in about 20 minutes. 10,000+ sessions and counting.

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Since 2020

AI Headshots

A decade of studio craft, turned into software. Upload a few selfies and get 30+ professional headshots — the Studio Pod look, no camera required.

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Try what Joseph built.

A decade of studio photography, distilled into a tool that takes a few selfies and 30 minutes.