Press kit.

Quick facts.

• What it is. WinPhoto is an AI critic that reads each photograph against every open photo competition and returns a reasoned verdict — Submit, Refine, Hold, or Skip — so photographers stop paying entry fees for contests they were never going to win.
• Founded. 2026.
• Location. Operations between Luxembourg and Tunisia. EU-hosted by design.
• Founder. Zied Mnif — photographer and dentist. Builds from Luxembourg; runs a dental practice in Tunisia that funds the obsession.
• Pricing. Apprentice (free) · Studio (€11/month) · Atelier (€29/month). Plus a one-shot Critic Pass for non-subscribers.
• Tech posture. EU-hosted inference (Ireland region, Zero Data Retention), Article 50 machine-output disclosure on every result, hand- verified contest catalogue.
• URLs. winphoto.io · /analyze (no-signup demo) · /ai-policy-2026 (the AI-policy database for 22 contests) · /blog (the journal).

Quotable lines.

Pre-formatted statements, attributable to "Zied Mnif, founder, WinPhoto". Use as-is; paraphrase only if you need to shorten.

1. "The Skip verdict is the moat. A score is easy to fake — a reasoned 'Skip this — the jury rewards X, your photograph reads Y' is harder."
2. "Photographers paid an estimated €600 million in contest entry fees in 2025. About a third went to contests photographers were never going to win."
3. "EU-sovereign by design, not by retrofit — we don't add a GDPR disclaimer to a US-hosted product. The inference happens in Ireland, the data doesn't leave the European Economic Area, and the Article 50 disclosure is on every verdict we return."
4. "We analyse. We don't edit. We don't submit. The top-tier contests require the entrant to author every curatorial choice — automating submission would breach that rule, so we don't build that feature, and we wouldn't build it even if the rules changed."
5. "The honest 'no' is the product. A tool that tells you to skip is more useful than a tool that flatters you into entering."
6. "I'm a photographer and a dentist. The clinic in Tunisia funds the obsession; the laptop sessions in Luxembourg ship the product. WinPhoto is what came out of the obsession plus the time to learn what was needed to build it."
7. "We publish corrections within seven days of being told we got something wrong. The original text is struck through, not silently rewritten. That's the bar."

Press images.

High-resolution product imagery from the journal cover set — free to use with credit to WinPhoto.

• cover-ai-positions.jpg — the editorial reading layer, suitable for AI-policy stories.
• cover-rubric.jpg — the jury-rubric framing, suitable for "how do contests judge" stories.
• cover-entry-fee-math.jpg — the entry-fee economics framing.
• cover-jury-comparison.jpg — comparative-jury framing across contests.
• cover-hipa-family.jpg — HIPA contest context.

Press contact.

Email: zed.mnif@gmail.com

Response time within 24 hours. For background context on the product, the operator, or the EU-sovereignty posture, see /about. For the legal footing, see /imprint and /legal/dpa.

Past coverage.

Coverage is being assembled. If you're writing about WinPhoto, the contact above is the fastest path — and we'll add your piece here once it's live.