SELFCLICK team

SELFCLICK founders

Anna and Anton Fomichev are the co-founders of the SELFCLICK self-service photostudio network and franchise.

They turned the idea of a photographer-free photo session into a clear product, technology platform and franchise system.

SELFCLICK today

Emotion becomes a product. Processes become a system.

Anna leads customer experience and strategy. Anton leads product, technology and operating architecture. Together they grow the network and help partners launch studios.

Anna Fomicheva — co-founder and CEO

Anna Fomicheva — co-founder and CEO

Designs an experience people want to repeat

Anna leads customer experience, strategy and the franchise system. She helped create standards that make the studio format scalable.

Focus: customer experience, strategy, standards, franchising and family business.

Anton Fomichev — co-founder and CPO

Anton Fomichev — co-founder and CPO

Turns an offline business into a manageable platform

Anton develops the technology platform for online booking, studio management, photo delivery and analytics, while building the operating architecture for scale.

Focus: online booking, studio operations, photo delivery, analytics and automation.

From hypothesis to network

How the network started

The founders opened their first studio in May 2023 and the first franchise studio in November 2023. A product that began with photographer-free photo sessions became a structured franchise format.

May 2023the first studio opened in Ulyanovsk
November 2023the first franchise studio opened
2024the first SELFCLICK studios opened in Kazakhstan
2025the Russian market breakthrough — the network reached 60 studios
The next step — international expansion
growing SELFCLICK into international markets by adapting the product, technology and franchise model to new countries.

The founders’ principles

01

A photo session should be simple and accessible without a photographer.

02

Technology should reduce operational workload and improve customer experience.

03

A franchise should give entrepreneurs clear standards and launch tools.

«Real franchising starts where franchisee success matters more than selling a franchise.»

— Anna Fomicheva

«Offline-business automation starts not with AI, but with a properly described process.»

— Anton Fomichev

What the founders speak about

Entrepreneurship and growth

Moving from employment to a first business, founder mistakes and personal transformation as the company grows.

Franchising and networks

Scaling a distributed business, maintaining quality and building standards that work for partners.

Technology and AI

Process automation, management analytics, AI agents and technology in offline businesses.

Anna’s profile · Anton’s profile

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We can talk about the SELFCLICK model, technology and the experience of scaling the network.

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