THE CULTURE OF THE COHORT
We have a clear culture in the group. Every member is part of it. Likeminded.
Cold Approach Super Intelligence
We have a clear culture in the group. Every member is part of it. Likeminded.
We go for the best possible girls. The standards are always going up. You shouldn't settle for less than what you really want.
We remove LAYERS. Authenticity is non-negotiable. Cold approach shouldn't feel like a performance.
The Cohort has access to the latest version of our AI/SI tools and models to make cold approaching, texting and dating more enjoyable and less repetitive.
We protect everyone's privacy. Anon friendly: your identity doesn't matter to us. No girl's name or handle is ever shown.
We need you to take action. You have seen enough content. Now is the time to apply it under our supervision.
We only give brutally honest feedback. This is not a safe space. You will be challenged.
We don't want you approaching girls looking like the average guy. Get into fashion to stand out. First impression is everything.
We encourage you to build meaningful relationships and have children. This is not just about getting laid.
We take results seriously. We don't take ourselves seriously. We encourage you to find humor in everything.
We want you to dedicate yourself to cold approach. Learn one new thing at a time. It's not a sprint. It's a marathon.
We don't participate in the modern dating. Having one night stands is a complete waste of time. Be better.
We don't jump around the world. We don't change cities every 3 weeks. To date the hottest girls you have to live somewhere and integrate.
We don't do pickup lines, routines or tricks. Get her attention and say hi. A bit of awkwardness makes you human. A script makes you a robot.
We don't apologise for being men. No political correctness, no virtue signalling. We say what works, even when it's not popular.
ENHANCED BY
SUBJECT 00
Cohort Member isn't using BayneOS yet
Bayne Research products, approach framework and AI tools are used everywhere in the world.
From a kid in the countryside to SUBJECT 00. Every layer he put on, and how he took them off.

Born in 1994, raised in France. Cold approaching the best girls he can find, by day, since 2017. Author of LAYERS, founder of Bayne Research. Three X accounts banned, still posting receipts.
Read the full story of Thomas Bayne in the LAYERS bookGet the book
AGE 0
Bayne is born and grows up in a city about 90 minutes from Paris. Middle-class family. His mother sees him as the most precious, most handsome and most talented boy on earth and never stops saying it. This kind of love is a great foundation. He never needed anyone else's approval.
AGE 6
His grandma hands him his first Nintendo Game Boy Color. He is never the same again: obsessed, quieter, grinding for hours. The games make him at home in the digital world and teach him how progress is made.
AGE 13
A boarding school full of Parisian kids sent away from the capital for misbehaving. He makes friends with the worst of them. Overweight, no style, not into girls yet. People already see potential.
AGE 14
Under the influence of older people, Bayne starts smoking cigs, binge drinking and smoking weed.
AGE 14
The overweight kid becomes a fit, angel-faced teenager.
AGE 14
Bayne loses his virginity with a 17yo girl from high school and then dumps her to date his school crush.
AGE 14
Kicked from his first high school for causing chaos and bullying people.
AGE 14
Kicked from his second high school after only 3 months. He lands mid-year at his third and gets popular out of thin air.
AGE 15
The next year, the troublemaker is elected class representative, then representative of the representatives. The whole hall cheers. He doesn't know 90% of them. They all know him.
AGE 15
His first heartbreak, with his school crush, takes him 6 months to recover. Then he starts playing with girls a bit more (and getting away with it).
AGE 16
Bayne goes to another boarding high school, this one full of Parisian girls. He spends his time jumping between the social circles of his town, with all the people he met at his previous schools.
AGE 16
Weekends at the Parisian rallies, the society balls aristocratic families throw for their teenagers. He is not from money and nobody invited him. He gets in anyway, behaves terribly and gets away with everything.
AGE 17
As predicted, he gets kicked out of this high school as well, and finishes his last year in another one.
AGE 18
He moves to Paris to study: a 14 m² flat on a 7th floor with no elevator. He opens The Game by Neil Strauss, reads a few pages and dismisses it: he was cool in high school, not a nerd.
AGE 18
Hard drugs and techno parties. Ecstasy, cocaine. The kid with potential becomes the bad guy.
AGE 19
He drops out of university after a year: too slow.
AGE 19
He starts learning to code and drops hard drugs cold turkey: club nights become coding nights.
AGE 20
Then the worst possible symptoms: drug withdrawal. Anxiety, panic attacks and depression hit like a delayed bomb.
AGE 20
He becomes an absolute nerd. He gets very good at branding and pixel-perfect interfaces, and the layers start: people pleaser, needy, the jester.
AGE 22
As his withdrawal symptoms worsen, more layers follow along as Layers do. He goes vegan, into yoga, meditation and other spiritual stuff: Wim Hof, Vipassana. Then therapy and pills. At 22 he feels like a vegetable and quits the pills cold turkey.
AGE 22
After two years teaching front-end development and product design to over 200 students, he quits his job to travel and be a digital nomad: Brazil, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Norway. He jumps from city to city and only meets losers. He thinks something is wrong with him, so he tries to adapt to people.
AGE 23
Back at his parents' house after more than a year abroad, socially a loser, having built nothing.
AGE 24
He moves to Lisbon. One of his friends shows him a video from RSD, Real Social Dynamics. The seminars look cringe. The approaches don't.
AGE 24
His very first approach: a girl in a mall, an instant date, which he ruins. Three months, several dates, not one lay from cold approach. He keeps going. He knows this is the way.
AGE 24
His mental health reaches a new low. All the past abuse keeps showing its signs. He sees a video of Mikhaila Peterson curing her depression with meat. He tries it. Ribeyes every day; two weeks later he is stable.
AGE 24
Bayne goes to Kiev and it clicks. This is the place to build something. He starts off broke in a small Soviet flat. Approaching girls in English. A month later he gets into his first relationship from cold approach. He has no frame and the relationship goes to shit. He dumps her and moves on.
AGE 24
He starts the Primal Diet of Aajonus Vonderplanitz: raw meat, raw eggs, raw milk. It heals what the steaks couldn't.
AGE 25 · JUNE
A farmers' market in June, and the first meeting with Mitchy Bones. Mitch's first impression of him: too serious, full of layers. They become best friends.
AGE 25
End of 2019, at the hot springs, he meets Rom.
AGE 26
Approaching girls while broke, making 5k a month freelancing. He gets some results, but something is wrong and he can't put his finger on it.
AGE 27
Back in France. Some results in Ukraine, but nothing crazy, so he gives up cold approach. Five months living near a hidden hot spring, to think.
AGE 27
The 2021 bull run. The right project at the right time, and he becomes a crypto millionaire overnight.
AGE 27
He comes back to Kiev victorious. The $800 Soviet flat becomes a $5k-a-month apartment.
AGE 27
He understands the power of drip.
AGE 27
He approaches girls from a place of abundance. It feels completely different from when he was broke, and he starts getting better results.
AGE 27
Something is still off. He is out there approaching girls as the best possible version of himself and the approaches go well, but he fumbles a lot of girls by text and during dates.
AGE 27
He can't find the answers with any coach, so he starts to reverse engineer everything he does, and starts to understand the concept of layers.
AGE 27
Making money now, he sees it in every broke PUA he used to know: always acting, never themselves. The word comes up on its own. Layers or no? A yes or a no is all he needs to know about a guy.
AGE 27
His texting gets better and better, his dates get better and better. He finally starts to get it, and dates girls he would not even have dreamed of.
AGE 27
His standards go past beauty: a closed profile, few followers, no profile picture. The girls who aren't used to men making it happen. Once he dates them, there is no going back.
AGE 28
Receipts in his Instagram Close Friends stories, to put other men in their heads. Strangers start asking to get in. He makes them apply. Within a year, around 300 men are inside.
AGE 28 · FEBRUARY 24
The war in Ukraine begins. Kiev wakes up to explosions.
AGE 28
He drives out of Kiev with his girlfriend, all the way to France.
AGE 28
In France he breaks up with his Ukrainian girlfriend in the worst possible way, then loses another virgin girlfriend in Toulouse.
AGE 28
He isolates himself in the mountains and builds the Bayne Framework.
AGE 28
He goes back to Eastern Europe.
AGE 28 · SEPTEMBER
The Bayne Framework goes online at bayneframe.com, and @bayneframe starts posting receipts on X.
AGE 29 · JANUARY 4
The Hall of Shame goes up on bayneframe.com. All the "dating coaches" and other accounts get exposed for producing low-quality results and dating mid girls.
AGE 29
His receipts channel on Telegram. The pinned post: "Want similar results? Join my Close Friends."
AGE 29 · MARCH 6
The Sauce opens: his private group for everything after the approach, texting, dates, the drip. By the summer all 20 spots are taken.
AGE 29 · MARCH 19
A feud with a War Room member: threats, then his thread exposing them, 100k views in a day. The next morning @bayneframe is suspended. It never comes back.
AGE 29 · JUNE 8
Back on X as @bayneframework.
AGE 29
The Close Friends group launches: a massive purge. Everyone who was already following and isn't taking action is kicked. It becomes an official group on Telegram and a cold approach learning environment. Bayne puts Mitchy Bones in charge of the group. Guys are learning how to cold approach and meet girls the right way. No more being misled by the terrible coaches you find online.
AGE 29 · SEPTEMBER
His first videos go up on YouTube. The one he counts as his first is about the High School theory.
AGE 29
The book: what layers are and how to remove them, with a preface by Mitchy Bones. Pre-orders open in September; it comes out that fall.
AGE 31 · MARCH 2
The review series starts: "Coach X knows NOTHING about cold approach". Every coach he reviews becomes a subject in the benchmark below.
AGE 31 · MAY 11
Bayne becomes a father. His first kid is born.
AGE 31
The hardcover: over 100 pages longer than the ebook.
AGE 31
Second suspension: @bayneframework goes down around the start of October. He carries on as @bayneframer.
AGE 32 · MARCH 11
After a two-month alpha with his first users and 30k USDC in volume, Bayne opens DripCollector to everyone: open packs, pull real designer drip, claim it or sell it back.
AGE 32 · JUNE
Two days after a public beef, @bayneframer is suspended, and the backup he opens the next day is gone within 24 hours. He tells the whole story on YouTube: "They paid $$$ to get my Twitter BANNED".
AGE 32 · OCTOBER 10
Regular Close Friends applications are discontinued for the release of BayneOS. Bayneframe becomes Bayne Research.
AGE 32
Early access opens for BayneOS, automatic texting for cold approach, and UltraSauce, the first frontier cold approach model.
AGE 32
The first frontier Cold Approach model is announced. Trained on all Bayne's texting patterns with slavic baddies since 2021, and thousands of texting conversations reviewed in his private groups.
AGE 32 · OCTOBER 12
BayneOS starts setting up dates with girls Bayne approaches, and reactivating old leads he forgot about. It works. The most annoying part of cold approach is being solved.
AGE 32 · OCTOBER 15
The BayneOS live dashboard goes public: all Bayne's leads, texts and dates, tracked in real-time.
AGE 32
Bayne's Close Friends is renamed to Cohort. An exclusive, invite-only group. All the members of the group get priority access to BayneOS.
TODAY · AGE 32
Still approaching the best girls he can find, by day. Still posting receipts.
Hundreds of coaches are trying to teach men how to cold approach girls. None of them are doing it the right way.
SUBJECT 00
The best way to approach girls in 2026. Every subject here is measured against it.
SUBJECT B-34
A prankster turned coach who talks too long, dresses badly and pitches his struggles.
SUBJECT B-33
Married guy with decade old receipts and no infield. Everything he says is based on hypothetical scenarios he clearly has never been in
SUBJECT B-32
Low standards for who he approaches. Weird cocktail of indirect mixed with touchy game. Only cares about getting laid
SUBJECT B-31
The most overrated coach of all time. All he has shown over the years is how to entertain people in nightclubs.
SUBJECT B-30
Asian Chad who actually does cold approach. Too scientific about it. Approaches just about anything, low standards.
SUBJECT B-29
One of the worst we reviewed, completely off track from his drip to his scripted openers.
SUBJECT B-28
Has a lot of potential and speaks great Russian. Unfortunately is a jestermaxxer with zero standards. Not ready to be a coach
SUBJECT B-27
He has potential but no idea how to cold approach yet, so he should not teach.
SUBJECT B-26
Still knows nothing about cold approach, just a sloppy version of what we teach.
SUBJECT B-25
Got a lot of people into cold approach back in the day. Unfortunately he himself isn't very good at it. The king of JESTERMAXXING.
SUBJECT B-24
Outdated PUA coaching: touchy approaches, quick bootcamps and drills that change nothing.
SUBJECT B-23
Good drip and busy-guy mindset, but he mixes networking with girls and hides his intent.
SUBJECT B-22
A looksmaxer with 200 approaches teaching forum theory he never tested in the field.
SUBJECT B-21
A streamer playing a character for content. Nothing to learn from him about approaching.
SUBJECT B-20
Failed at cold approach, then hid behind Instagram and party game that only pulls high exposure girls.
SUBJECT B-19
A streamer playing easy mode for views, there is nothing to learn from his game.
SUBJECT B-18
Funny jester, but scripted, touchy and badly dressed, you shouldn't approach like him.
SUBJECT B-17
Classic PUA running negs and scripted openers, rushing dates on mid girls.
SUBJECT B-16
Scripted, rushes dates and kisses on mid girls, you won't learn anything from him.
SUBJECT B-15
Bootcamp coaches teaching day pulls and sexual tension, they completely missed what cold approach is.
SUBJECT B-14
Extremely fake, always witty and cheesy, and far from the king of cold approach.
SUBJECT B-13
Over-the-top openers, owning every rejection and normie drip, completely off track after all those years.
SUBJECT B-12
His dog, his cringe little moment opener and nobody drip completely destroy his game.
SUBJECT B-11
Scripted arrival-story game that begs for empathy, goes way too deep and has no drip.
SUBJECT B-10
Doesn't know how to cold approach: no drip, all monologue, assumptions and jester tricks.
SUBJECT B-09
A beginner figuring it out on camera, seeking validation by announcing he's a dating coach.
SUBJECT B-08
Completely off track: long witty monologues, forced sexual tension, all in classic PUA drip.
SUBJECT B-07
Better than the previous PUAs, but acts too cool, jester maxes subtly and dresses normie.
SUBJECT B-06
A scripted character whose compliment, neg and instant date framework only works on high exposure girls.
SUBJECT B-05
Needy, indirect and asking permission, he is completely off track after all those years.
SUBJECT B-04
A tourist running a one man show, too touchy and too fast to land her.
SUBJECT B-03
He has potential, but camera gimmicks, scripts and zero persistence ruin every set.
SUBJECT B-02
His desensitization plan is fancy busywork that adds layers and gets you no girls.
SUBJECT B-01
A Mr Nice Guy camera show that misleads 400k viewers chasing the wrong girls.
Hundreds of lives changed since 2022
Bayne Research is the enhanced cold approach experience: a set of tools that make approaching girls during the day easier. The LAYERS book, the Cohort, BayneOS and the UltraSauce model work as one system, so you can get this part of your life handled once and for all. Until October 2026 it was called Bayneframe.
Born in 1994 and raised in France, he moved to Paris at 18. For years he has been cold approaching the best girls he can find, during the day, and he still goes out every day. He's a builder, a developer and designer who made his money outside dating. Author of LAYERS, founder of Bayne Research, three X accounts banned and still here.
Yes, in a way: he was cool in high school, elected president of the students. Then he had one of the worst downfalls ever. Years behind a screen stacked layers on him early on: the people pleaser, the needy guy, the jester, and more followed. A broke nomad life finished the job, and he came back home socially a loser, having built nothing. His first approach became an instant date he ruined, and months passed with no results. The usual pickup advice felt wrong, so he went the opposite way: no lines, just being normal, and taking the layers off one by one.
Because he still does it. Bayne approaches every day and posts receipts, and he built the skill and the receipts before selling anything. He teaches one niche, daytime cold approach, with the same formula for years, only refined. His Benchmark measures the coaches he has reviewed, from their own videos, against his principles: Bayne is Subject 00, and nobody else comes close.
A receipt is the end result of an approach: the relationship it led to, not a clip of a street conversation. Bayne has posted his for years, and his students' too, all from daytime cold approach. He rarely films: the approach is only 5% of the process, and a man who knows he's being filmed puts on a show, which is a layer. See bayneframe.com/receipts.
Not in the usual sense. Bayne rejects "pickup artist" because it frames cold approach as a job or a performance, the opposite of his philosophy. For years he worked in tech and approached on the side, never part of any pickup community. He made his money building software, not selling dating courses, cracked the code before teaching it, and teaches because he loves to.
Walking up to a girl you find really attractive, during the day, sober, in a mall or a busy street, and simply being normal. Wear the right drip, say hi, make small talk, talk about yourself, get her Instagram and leave within a couple of minutes. No lines, no touching, no talk of a date: the relationship is built afterwards, slowly.
Because the girls worth dating aren't there. Apps, clubs, DMs and social circles mostly bring high-exposure girls who are used to it. By day you meet girls who don't swipe or party: she is herself because she isn't expecting anyone. At a party she gets approached again right after you leave; by day, almost never. Bayne rates one daytime Instagram at 15 to 20 from a night out. And you go alone and sober.
Malls and busy streets, during the day. The mall is Bayne's first pick: it's packed, nobody notices you approaching, and you can go every day and stay low-key (around 5 pm is a classic). Approach girls passing by or running errands; if one walks into a shop, follow her in. Skip girls who are working, like shop staff and waitresses: they're paid to be nice to you.
Something plain: "Hi, how are you?" Be direct, as if you already know her a bit. No pick-up lines, no "excuse me" or "sorry", and no fake pretext like asking for directions: it hides your intention and makes you look like a lost sheep. Introduce yourself first instead of asking her name. If she looks confused about why you're there, one simple compliment, like "I like your style", explains it.
No. No canned lines, no routines, no negs or push-pull, and you don't have to be funny: just talk to her normally. Those tricks mostly work on high-exposure girls who are used to them; a low-exposure girl just gets creeped out. Being normal is also a filter: if she needs a show, you'll have to keep the show going for the whole relationship. Scripts are for robots.
Surface-level small talk: what she's up to, where she's going, is she a student. Then talk about yourself, even if she didn't ask, so she sees you're not a nobody: your wins and what you're working on, not your struggles or your exes. No guessing games, nothing deep yet: save that for the date. Who is talking matters more than the words.
A couple of minutes. The approach is about 5% of the process and its only job is a good first impression: a bit of small talk, something about you, her Instagram, then you tell her you'll text her later and go. Stay longer and you drift into instant-date territory. Assume you're memorable by default: she'll picture you better in her own head than any long chat could.
Her Instagram. Ask "Do you have Instagram?" (asking "can I have..." is asking for a no), find her on your phone and check you can actually message her before you leave. On Instagram she sees your stories, so you stay on her radar; a number is static. Never give her yours or put your number in her phone: that hands her the decision. No Instagram? Take her number.
No. We never mention a date during the approach: you get her contact and tell her you'll text her later. The date is set during the texting phase. An instant date with a girl you know nothing about burns steps: she goes along in the moment, then feels it went way too fast and ghosts or blocks you. Bayne's very first approach became an instant date. He ruined it.
No. No handshake, no fist bump, no hand on her shoulder: she's a stranger, and you have boundaries. Keep it non-sexual too: by day you meet a girl, you don't seduce her. Closeness is built over time, once you're dating. And a girl who welcomes a stranger's touch is a red flag.
Often it's a reflex, a polite way out of an unexpected situation rather than a verdict on you. Don't argue, don't make it about him, and never ask whether she's single. If she keeps talking, so can you, for a moment. If she's ending it, or shows you a ring, wish her a good day and go.
It happens to everyone, Bayne included, and the only unacceptable rejection is not approaching at all. A good girl's first reaction to a stranger is often a bit cold, so don't bail at the first awkward second. But if she clearly doesn't want to talk, let her go: a little persistence is fine, pushing is not, and you never harass anyone. Take the L and approach the next girl.
Everyone has it, Bayne included after a break, and the girl is nervous too. Go anyway: action before motivation. No warm-ups, no "say hi to everyone" drills, no quotas or counting approaches: you should be ready in whatever state you're in, and only for girls you really want. If you freeze, the frustration of watching her walk past builds until you go. Even a horrible approach is progress.
No: keep it low-key. Approach alone; a daytime approach is special by itself, and if she's with friends, just focus on her. Don't film: it's not a prank video, and a camera turns you into a performer. Don't tell people either, and don't make her aware it's "an approach": it should feel like a one-off moment. The fewer people know you do this, the better.
No. You become the sum of what you watch: infield clips make you copy other men's words, posture and layers, even when you watch them for fun, and they only show the approach, a small slice of the process. Once you get the basics, stop, his channel included, then go out, make your own mistakes and get feedback on them.
Never having approached is not a handicap: Bayne would rather work with a guy who knows nothing about cold approach than with one full of pickup habits, and when someone tells him he has never done it, his answer is that it will be easy to learn. Read LAYERS first, stop consuming content and go out: good drip, a mall, a simple hi to a girl you really want.
Every day if you can, for an hour or two: five days a week beats once a week by far, and most guys fail because they stop after two weeks with no results. Weeks without a girl worth approaching are normal. Expect a few months before real results and years to master it: the best girls take time to crack. Once you have the skill, it stays for decades.
More volume won't fix it. First, standards: approaching girls you're only mildly into because it's easy makes the ones you want harder, not easier. Then layers: Bayne sees successful, good-looking guys who are good with girls and still hit a ceiling, and what they missed is understanding layers. Pickup habits only kind of work. Approach only the girls that make you go "wow", by day, and be patient.
What's creepier is staring at a girl from a distance and never saying anything: she sees you looking. Bayne's rule: if you look at a girl more than twice, you owe her the approach. It's your job to make it comfortable for her: let her see you coming, approach from the side instead of blocking her path, keep your distance, no touching, and actually listen to what she says.
If you want the best girls in your city, yes: without the local language you can't get the best out of a city with cold approach. At minimum, learn the basic sentences to approach in it. And when a girl says she doesn't speak English, don't take it as the absolute truth: keep it simple and keep going.
Yes, as long as there are girls walking around in it. Everyone thinks their own city, town or country is the hardest place, while some guy moves there because to him it's a goldmine. The better question is why you aren't dating the local low-exposure girls yet. You don't need to move: a city of around 500,000 people is enough to get started, and moving won't change who you are, because location only amplifies. What unlocks the best girls is staying for the long term, so if the first month is slow, don't panic and leave: stay normal and keep going.
The approach is only about 5% of the process. Next comes the texting phase, where you get to know her, and the date is set at the end of it, never on the spot. Texting after a daytime approach is nothing like texting after Tinder or a club, and it's harder than the approach. That phase is what BayneOS automates.
The approach is only one part of the process, about 5% of it: most of the job is done after it, in the texting phase and on the dates. Texting after a daytime approach is nothing like texting after Tinder or a club. Bayne went through it too: his approaches went well, but he fumbled a lot of girls by text and on dates until he found his layers. And the best girls take longer.
The weird personality quirks you use to compensate for not feeling like you are good enough. Most men have them without ever realizing it: they sneak up on you. It's not your looks, it's your layers: the invisible quirks that quietly repel the people you most want.
They sneak up on you, usually without you noticing. Bayne was the kid everyone liked in high school, until years behind a screen and the digital nomad life quietly stacked layers onto him and drained the aura he used to have. Clawing it back is what forced him to map every layer, name it and build the system to remove it. That system is the book.
The most common and most annoying in men today is the jestermaxxer: he got no attention growing up, so he turned himself into the clown, always "on", never able to sit in silence. Another plays it quieter: mysterious and nonchalant, cold and "intriguing", because he is deeply insecure. Another is obsessed with optimizing every metric of his body, because controlling his biology feels safer than facing what he cannot measure. The book dissects 40+.
If you're not happy with the quality of women you're attracting, you have at least one. If you've seen beautiful girls but couldn't muster up the courage to speak with them, you have them too. Layers are easy to see in others and difficult to see in yourself: the free LAYERS test, 12 questions in about 2 minutes, shows you the ones running your life.
That's what the book is for: one clear step-by-step process that removes the noise instead of adding to it, and shows you, layer by layer, how to strip them off and get back to the authentic version of yourself. Start with the free LAYERS test: it pinpoints yours and shows which parts of the book strip them off.
Not by adding more on top: the book removes the noise instead of adding to it. Chasing the perfect routine can even be a layer: one the page describes is the guy obsessed with optimizing every metric of his body, because controlling his biology feels safer than facing the parts of himself he cannot measure. Going to the gym is fine.
Most of it. Lines, negs, routines and gimmicks are an act: Bayne says the guys who learned from PUAs are the hardest to work with. Building status so the women you want show up doesn't work either: the status game attracts high-exposure girls. Drop the act: remove, don't add.
No act. Talk to a girl the way you'd talk to anyone: no script, no witty lines, no persona, and say what you actually think. It doesn't mean blurting out everything on your mind: you're fully yourself, but calibrated. It's what's left once your layers are gone.
A girl who isn't on the dating market. It's how she lives, not a rating: no dating apps, no clubbing, no attention-seeking Instagram, often a closed profile with few followers and no picture. She isn't used to being approached or to dating lots of guys, and her family and friends come first. A high-exposure girl is the opposite. You won't meet a low-exposure girl through modern dating methods, only by approaching her during the day.
Only the ones that make you go "wow": the best girls you see, even ones you think are out of your league. Approaching girls you're only mildly into doesn't make the ones you want easier, it makes them harder, and top girls can feel low standards. Approach locals rather than tourists. Your standards are built: they go up as you get results.
Because they aren't used to it. Being approached by a stranger is uncomfortable for a low-exposure girl, so her default is no, sometimes even to giving her Instagram. A bit of awkwardness or shyness is actually a good sign; a girl who's warm and chatty with a stranger straight away is usually used to it. They also take longer: weeks or months, sometimes a year, before a first date.
No. We don't take part in hookup culture: one night stands are a waste of time. The goal is meaningful relationships with girls worth keeping around, built step by step: an acquaintance, then someone you know better, then your girlfriend. Bayne says that if you only want to get laid from cold approach, his advice isn't for you. We encourage you to build a family.
Yes, that's the point. We encourage you to build meaningful relationships and have children. Bayne builds long-term relationships step by step, from an acquaintance to someone he knows better to his girlfriend. Keep your standards and give the best girls time.
Because going fast never led him to a relationship. Time works for you: he has dated girls a year after approaching them, and it felt like they'd known each other for ages because she'd been watching his stories all along. Early on, about one meeting a week is the sweet spot: everything must feel earned. You set the pace, and being able to go fast doesn't mean you should.
Don't make her your whole life. A girlfriend is a girlfriend: keep working, keep your friends, your hobbies and your own rhythm, and don't rebuild your lifestyle around her. Bayne made that mistake himself. Seeing her once or twice a week keeps your attention valuable; seeing her every day turns you into roommates. Text her normally, not like you're afraid to lose her.
Your clothes, and the first impression they make. Bayne calls good drip a passive boost of about 30%: no training, you just put it on. Go for minimalist designer pieces with no loud logos, not the pickup uniform of leather jacket and cheap shoes. Start with the foundation, your shoes, then the top, then the trousers. We won't hand you a list of brands: finding them is part of it.
No. It's not your looks, it's your layers. One of Bayne's students on video is shorter than the girl he approaches, and by day a good vibe and good drip make you stand out: the fact you approached already does. Muscles mostly impress other men and can scare off low-exposure girls. No looksmaxing or surgery: basic grooming and the right clothes do the work.
Money helps: it lets you approach from abundance and it amplifies the game you already have, but it doesn't create it, and plenty of rich guys have no beautiful women. Status game, a supercar or a flashy feed mostly attract high-exposure girls and other try-hards; a man with real status hides. Keep your Instagram private and minimal: let her build the image of you in her own head.
Because it's a different skill. Money is fine, but it's not only about money and power: it's about knowing how it's done. Low-exposure girls don't care much about your business. Money amplifies the game you have; it doesn't create it.
Not if you want the best girls. Low-exposure girls want to see if you're going to stick around, and the best ones come into your life over months, sometimes a year after the approach. Passing through, you mostly meet the "welcoming committee": girls who wait for foreigners. Pick a city, take a one-year lease, learn the language, live like a local and stay. Bayne doesn't approach when he travels.
It's Aajonus Vonderplanitz's Primal Diet: raw animal foods like raw meat, eggs, milk and honey. Bayne followed it strictly for years, eats it less strictly now, and says it greatly improved his mental health and his wellbeing. That's his own experience, not advice for yours.
Your vibe gets tested every day, because girls give you honest feedback, and your results tell you exactly where you stand. It lowers your inhibition in a healthy way: you stop overthinking without becoming obnoxious. Every other kind of socialising gets easy, from sales calls to job interviews. And it's a lifestyle, not a quick fix: you walk 10 to 30k steps a day and get a break from scrolling.
LAYERS is about the personality quirks that make men unbearable: the invisible ones that quietly repel the people you most want. It dissects 40+ of them and shows you, one by one, how to strip them off and get back to the authentic version of yourself, in one clear step-by-step process with no filler. Hardcover or e-book, with the free 2-minute LAYERS test, on removelayers.com.
Men who aren't happy with the quality of women they attract, or who see beautiful girls and can't muster up the courage to speak with them. If socializing doesn't feel effortless yet, it's for you: it shows you how to free yourself from your layers and live on your own terms.
The Cohort is Bayne Research's private, invite-only group: the cold approach laboratory. Members get brutally honest feedback from veterans who still cold approach today. A community that pushes you to take action. And the latest versions of our AI tools, BayneOS and UltraSauce, before anyone else.
It's a private group: the cold approach laboratory. The point isn't more content: you have seen enough, and now is the time to apply it under our supervision, with brutally honest feedback from veterans who still cold approach today. It's long-term work, never a 3-day bootcamp: dedicate yourself and learn one new thing at a time. It's not a sprint. It's a marathon.
Likeminded men with one clear culture, and every member is part of it. Feedback is brutally honest: it's not a safe space and you will be challenged. We take results seriously, never ourselves, and find humour in everything. We go for the best possible girls, we're against canned lines and routines, and we need you to take action.
Because a positive reaction alone doesn't prove your approach is good: you can get good reactions while doing it wrong, and theory alone won't crack the code. You approach alone, but you learn in the right environment: men on the same mission, sharing their real approaches, and veterans who spot your layers and tell you what to stop doing.
That's what our AI tools are for. The Cohort has the latest versions of BayneOS and UltraSauce, made to make cold approaching, texting and dating more enjoyable and less repetitive. BayneOS keeps the conversation going after the approach, sets up the date and brings back the leads you forgot about.
Spontaneous applications are closed at the moment: you can only join if an existing member refers you. If one did, the application is free: 9 short steps, and every application is read by hand. Apply here.
Nine short steps: whether you have read LAYERS or will before joining, how you found Bayne, why you want to be in the Cohort, what you do for work, where you're based, your #1 proudest accomplishment, what you were like in high school, your Instagram and your email. Every application is read by hand, and authenticity is non-negotiable. Then follow Bayne on Instagram to confirm your account, and check your inbox for the confirmation email.
Before you join, yes. Before you apply, no: the first question of the application asks whether you have read it, or will read it before joining the Cohort. Removing layers is one of our fundamentals. Authenticity is non-negotiable.
Practice, and other eyes on you. Layers are easy to see in others and hard to see in yourself, so in the Cohort veterans who still cold approach give you brutally honest feedback, a community pushes you to take action, and you get the latest versions of BayneOS and UltraSauce.
Yes. The Cohort is anon friendly: you only share as much as you want to about yourself. No girl's name or handle is ever shown.
Automatic texting for cold approach. After the approach, BayneOS keeps the conversation going, sets up the date and brings back the leads you forgot about. It has been setting up Bayne's dates since October 2026.
The first frontier cold approach model. It is trained on thousands of approaches and texting conversations with the best possible girls in the world, and it learns Bayne's rules, his words and his timing.
No. BayneOS and UltraSauce are exclusively available for the members of the Cohort. Being in the Cohort is the only way to get access to them.
Yes. bayneresearch.com/live shows Bayne's leads, texts and dates as they happen, tracked by BayneOS. His receipts are on bayneframe.com/receipts. Both are public, so you can judge for yourself before you apply.
Because nobody masters cold approach by watching videos: you master it through action. After years of approaching, dating and helping others, Bayne had mapped the patterns between the approach and the first date and was tired of repeating himself, so automating that part was the logical next step. No general AI model gives legit advice on cold approach or texting, so he built his own, for himself first.
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