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Faculty headshots without a campus photo day
Faculty and staff photos that match across department pages and research profiles, generated from selfies without a campus photo day.
From $39 per person, volume discounts from 5 people.
- 40 headshots per person
- About an hour from selfies to download
- Nobody on the team needs an account
University staff directories are among the most-visited pages a department has, read by prospective students, collaborators and journalists looking for someone to quote. They are also, almost everywhere, a patchwork: conference photographs, decade-old portraits, empty placeholders for people who never sent anything. The scale is the problem, since a department of eighty is impossible to photograph in one sitting. Starkie Teams sidesteps it by generating each person from selfies on their own phone, inside a style the department fixes once.
The result
Everyone, in the same light.
Choose a backdrop and an outfit once. Every person who joins is generated inside that style, so the team page finally looks like one team rather than a collage of whoever had a photo.
Sample headshots generated by Starkie from phone selfies.
Department pages that stop being a patchwork
A staff listing is read comparatively: a visitor scans forty entries looking for the right specialism, and inconsistent photographs make the page harder to read rather than merely less pretty. Because everyone is generated inside one shared style, backgrounds and framing align across professors, postdocs and administrative staff alike.
Everyone chooses their own frame out of the 40 they are sent, which tends to matter where people are photographed for research profiles, conference programmes and press comment as well as the department site.
See it work
From selfies to a finished set, in four moves.
Nothing here needs a studio, a camera or a calendar. The whole thing runs from a phone and a browser.
Uploading 8 selfies
- 1Send a few selfiesSix to twelve photos from a phone, wherever the person is.
- 2We train a model of themA private model per person, built from those selfies.
- 3The style is already chosenThe backdrop and outfit the organisation set apply to everyone.
- 440 headshots, ready to approveIn about an hour. Approve, download, done.
One link for a department of eighty
Administration creates the organisation, picks the style, then circulates a single open invite link restricted to the institution’s own email domain, so anyone with a valid address can join without being individually listed first.
People who need chasing get automatic reminders, and staff who are on sabbatical or based at another site take part from wherever they are. Named invitations by email work in parallel for the cases where a specific list matters, such as a new cohort of doctoral students.
24 invitedThe difference
A shoot day, or an afternoon.
Booking a photographer
- Find a date the whole team can make
- Book a room and a photographer
- Chase the people who were travelling
- Wait for retouched files
- Start again for every new hire
With Starkie Teams
- Invite by email, CSV or one link
- Everyone uploads selfies from a phone
- Remote colleagues take part on the same terms
- 40 headshots each in about an hour
- New hires get the same style, whenever they join
Consent, records and deletion
Institutions have to be able to say how a photograph was obtained. Consent is given by the individual, in writing, before a single file moves, and the exact version they agreed to is kept on record: amend the wording and everyone is asked afresh.
Uploaded selfies are erased when the retention period expires and images open only through expiring links. Deletion is the individual’s to request rather than the department’s to administer, and the private page in each invite handles it and returns written confirmation.
Your selfies are used to generate your headshots and deleted at the end of the retention period.
As it happens
Every person, at their own pace.
People upload when it suits them. The organiser watches the set fill up and approves sets as they come in; nobody waits for a studio slot.
Headshots ready
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What the organiser sees
The whole run, from one screen.
Invites, consent, approval, downloads and the branded profile pictures, each a step in the same place.
- Invite peoplePaste emails or upload a CSVOpen linkCopy linkstarkie.ai/teams/join/x7q…Only @acme.com addresses24 invited
- DownloadsWhole team, one archive24 people · 960 files
- One folder per person
- Approved people only
- ReviewSophia40 headshotsAwaiting approval
ApproveRequest a retakeReasonThe tie: could we try the open collar? - Branded profile pictureACMECompany frame1024 · 512
Re-rendered when the template changes
- Before you uploadConsent text v3
Your selfies are used to generate your headshots and deleted at the end of the retention period.
I agreeAccepted · logged - Webhookmember.photos_readyDelivered
X-Starkie-Signature: t=1700000000,v1=5257a8… · Signed{ "type": "member.photos_ready", "organizationId": "org_…", "data": { "memberId": "cle…" } }
For whoever runs it
Built for the person organising the team as well as the people in it.
- Invite in bulk
- Paste an address book, upload a CSV or circulate one open link limited to your own domain.
- Approve before anything goes live
- Hold every finished set for review. Turn one down with a short reason and that person gets another attempt at no cost.
- Branded profile pictures
- A framed, on-brand square for every person alongside the headshots, ready for Slack, Teams and email signatures.
- Consent and retention, logged
- Each person accepts a versioned consent text. Selfies are erased at the end of the retention period, and photos open only through signed links that expire.
- API and webhooks
- Create members from your HR system and react the moment their photos are ready. Signed deliveries and a public reference; no polling.
- SSO for larger organisations
- Single sign-on for the admins who run it, and a Data Processing Agreement you can read before you sign anything.
Pricing
One credit per person. Discounts stack as you buy.
No subscription and no seats. A credit is one person’s 40 headshots, and the discount on every purchase is set by the credits you have bought so far.
- First 4 creditsList price$39.00 each
- 5+ credits20% off$31.20 each
- 25+ credits30% off$27.30 each
- 100+ credits40% off$23.40 each
- 250+ credits50% off$19.50 each
Estimate your price
- Price per person
- $31.20
- Volume discount
- 20%
- Subtotal
You're in the 20% band. 15 more people reaches 30%.
Prices in US dollars. One credit per teammate.
Frequently asked questions
Can each department choose its own style?
The style is set per organisation, so a department that wants its own look runs its own organisation. An institution that wants one consistent look across faculties sets it once and invites everybody into the same organisation.
Do we need a list of everyone before we start?
No. The open invite link is restricted to your email domain, so people can join themselves. Named email invitations are available too, and both routes end up in the same organisation with the same style.
How is this priced at department scale?
Per person, not per department: $39, with 30% off from twenty-five credits, 40% from one hundred and half from two hundred and fifty. Eighty faculty in one department therefore buy at 30%; an institution pooling several departments reaches the next rung quickly.
Can we push the photos into our own web system?
There is a single archive to download, organised by person and described by a manifest, and a JSON API that enumerates members and returns their images or branded picture; signed webhooks announce each set as it becomes ready.
Give the whole team the same headshot, without the shoot day.
Free to set up: you only pay when you buy credits. There is no subscription, and you don't need a card to start.