A.I.P.A. Launchpad™ — By Application. Rolling Cohorts.

My Weird Little AI Side Hustle That's Currently Making Me $26,838/Year On Just 23 Hours A Month

And how to ETHICALLY copy my exact system in the next 6 weeks — without cold calling, a portfolio, or being salesy.

Apply for a Seat →Takes 2 minutes. I review every application personally. Payment plans available.

Three moves. One outcome.

Step 01

Build Your Proof Asset

Generate personalized AI visuals for your target clients in under 15 minutes — before you ever reach out.

Step 02

Lead With Value, Not a Pitch

Send your visual first. Let the work speak. Watch reply rates go up and sales anxiety disappear.

Step 03

Land Your First Client in 6 Weeks

Follow the structured daily system until a real brand pays you for real work — then repeat.

How I stumbled into this — and why I'm sharing it

Hi, I'm Bertrand. I'm not a business guru. I don't have a massive audience or a course empire. What I have is a side hustle that quietly grew to $27,000 a year — working part-time hours — doing something most people don't even know exists yet.

AI Photography for e-commerce brands.

Here's what that actually looks like. A brand needs product images for their store, their ads, their social. They try to generate them with ChatGPT or Midjourney. The results look wrong — distorted products, plastic-looking people, completely off-brand. So they go to Upwork and LinkedIn, looking for someone who knows how to do this properly.

Every single day, dozens of those posts go up. Real brands. Real budgets. Actively looking.

Upwork gigs for AI product photography — real brands actively hiring

What they're looking for is this.

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AI-generated product and lifestyle visuals that are accurate to the product, realistic, and on-brand. The kind of images that used to require a photographer, a studio, and a full day of shooting. Brands use them for their store pages, their Meta ads, their social content — anywhere they need fresh creative at scale.

Most business owners try to generate them with ChatGPT or Midjourney and quickly discover it's harder than it looks. The product dimensions come out wrong. The model looks plastic. The brand feel is completely off. So they hire someone who actually knows how to do it properly.

That someone can be you.

$2,237/m
From 3 clients
23 hrs
Work per month
$97.24/hr
Effective hourly rate
Email from a prospective client showing interest$1,500/month retainer agreement with a sportswear clientUpwork earnings: biggest client — $993Upwork earnings: apparel client — $290Upwork earnings: cosmetic client — $100Upwork earnings: toy client — $200Upwork earnings: toy client — $50/hour

And I built this quietly. No cold calls. No pushy pitches. No blasting strangers with spam DMs at 11pm. No chasing. No hustle-bro energy. One hour of outreach per day. 23 hours of actual client work per month. A side income that respects my time — and the people I reach out to.

When I started sharing the method publicly, hundreds of people said they'd try it.

In the weeks that followed, almost none of them replicated it.

Not because the information was wrong. Because information without structure is just entertainment.

The gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it every day — that's where almost every online business ambition goes to die.

You don't have an information problem.

You've bought courses. Watched tutorials. Learned tools. You're not lazy and you're not clueless. What you don't have is a constrained, structured, accountable system that produces a real win fast enough to keep you going.

Without that, motivation runs out in week two. Every time. And the evidence piles up that maybe — just maybe — you're not the kind of person who makes this work.

That belief is wrong. And the A.I.P.A. Launchpad™ is designed to prove it.

Introducing the
A.I.P.A. Launchpad™

A cohort-based, 6-week implementation sprint for landing your first 1–3 paying AI Photography clients — with structure, accountability, and someone alongside you who just built this from zero.

Inside A.I.P.A. you will discover:

  • My Proof-Before-Pitch method to land clients without ever having to be salesy or pushy
  • My secret weapon for finding unlimited leads which desperately need your services via email, IG, and LinkedIn
  • The Upwork strategy I have used to systematically get a 10%+ interview rate and outperform 15 competitors at once
  • My 30-minute "Bull’s Eye" portfolio method to instantly give you confidence and credibility to sell AI Photography
  • The ICP positioning custom GPT to make sure your prospects feel instantly related to your services
  • My low-effort 60-min-a-day outreach strategy to ensure a steady pipeline of deals coming your way, regardless of market conditions
  • The upsell to downsell "start high, go low" pricing strategy I have used multiple times to save deals which were nearly lost
  • The exact script I use to sell to clients word for word, so there’s no hard selling and no guessing needed
  • How to frame discovery calls so that you unearth untapped service opportunities from prospects
  • How to deal with the most common objections and turn them to your advantage
  • All my SOPs and processes I used to outsource my agency work to my VA (so you can have the agency run without you)
  • My Visual Syntax process for deconstructing and creating any AI Photography you can imagine
  • All my Visual Syntax cheatsheets I always keep next to my desk to never have to guess styles, camera angles, lenses, and more
  • My 6-step proprietary AI Photography workflow that allows me to create high-quality creatives for my clients
  • My Dezygn delivery process to ensure revisions with clients go fast and smooth
  • Dezygn access (Agency level): the exact software I use to get, serve, and wow clients
  • My Responsible AI Visuals Policy that I now send to every lead and client to help them alleviate any doubts about AI photography
  • My prompt library and training to go from AI Photography to Creative Strategy and 10x your earnings
  • My AI video framework to create winning ads and social media shorts that don’t look uncanny
  • Access to me via Slack, weekly group calls, and unlimited DMs to help you never get stuck
  • A step-by-step 90-day plan beyond the 6 weeks to help you scale your agency
This is not a course. Courses give you information. You already have plenty of that. This is a sprint — six weeks, fifteen people maximum, weekly live calls, daily execution, and direct feedback from me on your positioning, pipeline, and outreach in real time.
WEEK 01Positioning & Proof
  • Lock in your niche with the Find Your Tribe Process™
  • Build 10 AI proof visuals in under 15 minutes using Dezygn
  • Set up a lean LinkedIn profile targeting your ICP
  • Send your first 10 Proof-Before-Pitch messages

By Friday: You are launched. You have an offer. You've taken action.

WEEK 02The Outreach Engine
  • Send 10 Proof-Before-Pitch messages per day for 5 consecutive days
  • Track everything with the Outreach Scorecard™
  • Publish your first niche-relevant LinkedIn post

By Friday: Outreach is no longer emotional. It's mechanical.

WEEK 03Momentum & Conversion
  • Maintain daily outreach + 10 follow-ups per day
  • Review pipeline data to replace doubt with math
  • Lock in your Simple Starter Pricing Model™
  • Learn the Discovery Call Framework™

By Friday: You're booking calls. You know exactly what to charge.

WEEK 04Close Your First Client
  • Run your first discovery calls
  • Handle objections using the live call framework
  • Send your first invoice

By Friday: Revenue is real — or extremely close.

WEEK 05Deliver & Build Confidence
  • Deliver first campaign using the Dezygn Workflow Blueprint™
  • Use the structured Client Brief Framework™
  • Request your first testimonial

By Friday: You are no longer trying. You are operating.

WEEK 06Stabilize & Scale
  • Build your 90-Day Continuation Plan™
  • Refine pricing if needed
  • Map your path to $3k–$5k/month

By Friday: You don't just have a client. You have a system.

Apply for a Seat →15 seats per cohort. Applications reviewed personally.
Everything that's included

The 6-Week Live Cohort

  • Weekly live implementation calls
  • Direct positioning and pipeline reviews
  • Closing & pricing framework walkthroughs
  • Live objection handling practice
  • Structured milestone progression — week by week

Complete Playbook Stack

  • Proof-Before-Pitch Method™
  • Find Your Tribe Process™
  • 15-Minute Portfolio™
  • 20x5 Sprint™ System
  • 10x5 Follow-Up System™
  • Simple Starter Pricing Model™
  • Discovery Call Framework™
  • Dezygn Workflow Blueprint™
  • 90-Day Continuation Plan™

Tools & Access

  • Niche GPT
  • LinkedIn GPT
  • Outreach Tracker
  • Scripts & Templates

Bonus #1

  • 3 Months Dezygn Agency Plan
  • Capacity for up to 2 active clients
  • No extra software needed from day one

Bonus #2

  • 12-Month Alumni Community Access
  • Playbooks & templates for a full year
  • Peer accountability & future cohort wins

Bonus #3

  • Direct 1:1 reviews of your LinkedIn positioning
  • Live pipeline data review with Bertrand
  • Personal feedback on outreach and discovery calls throughout the sprint
Apply for a Seat →Next cohort opens on a rolling basis. No commitment to apply.

This is not for everyone.
It's for the right one.

This is for you if

  • You've been learning digital skills for years and never made consistent money from any of it
  • You're in a professional or income transition and need results, fast
  • You have a creative eye — you can tell when something looks right
  • You want a structured system with someone alongside you, not more content to consume alone
  • You can commit 60 minutes of focused execution per day for 6 weeks

This is NOT for you if

  • You want push-button income with no real work involved
  • You're not willing to do actual client work
  • You have no creative instinct whatsoever
  • You want to buy something and never open it
  • You're looking for a passive income scheme
Apply for a Seat →Takes 2 minutes. No commitment. I read every application personally.

Each cohort is capped at 15 people.

Not as a marketing tactic. Because I'm personally reviewing every member's positioning and pipeline throughout six weeks. Once a cohort fills, applications close and the next one opens. No waitlist — just a fresh start.

Frequently asked

Yes. What you need is a creative eye — the ability to look at an image and know whether it works. If you've ever cared about what something looks like, you have enough to start. The technical side is learnable in days, not months.
The daily execution block is 60 minutes. The live calls are scheduled in advance so you can plan around them. This program is designed for people who don't have unlimited time.
A course gives you information. This gives you a constrained structure, live accountability, direct feedback, and a cohort of people executing alongside you. The failure mode of most courses is that nobody checks whether you're doing the work. Here, I do.
That's the whole point of this program. You start from zero. The outreach system is designed to generate clients from scratch — not by leveraging an existing audience, but by leading with value and proof.
Dezygn is an AI photography platform built specifically for this type of client work. It has specialized AI agents that understand product photography, a quality control layer, and brand memory so your output stays consistent. Three months of the Agency plan is included in the program.
I'll tell you honestly — and point you somewhere more useful. No hard selling. No pressure on the call. I would rather turn someone away than take their investment and not be able to help them.
The program is built around landing clients within 6 weeks. Some people land their first client in week 2 or 3. It depends on your execution — but the structure is specifically designed to compress the timeline as much as possible.

If you got this far,
you already know.

Apply now. Two minutes. I'll read it personally. If it's a fit — you'll hear from me. If it's not — I'll tell you honestly and point you somewhere more useful.

Apply for a Seat →Each cohort closes once 15 seats are filled. Payment plans available.