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Behind the Scenes — How TodayOff Was Built

Who's behind TodayOff? One founder, ten AI agents: Ümit Zobu on AI-assisted product building and why that means trust for SMB buyers.

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Behind the Scenes — How TodayOff Was Built

Who's behind TodayOff, and why should you trust that this tool will still be around in five years?

That's a legitimate question for HR managers and business owners in small and medium-sized businesses — before they hand their vacation planning, time tracking, and team coordination over to a new tool. This article gives honest answers.


The Founder

TodayOff was founded by Ümit Zobu. Ümit is not a corporate manager, and not a classic software developer either — he's the owner of a small business who lived with the problem TodayOff solves for years: vacation requests on paper slips, error-prone spreadsheets, forgotten approvals. TodayOff grew out of that daily grind — as the tool he always wished he had.

That's exactly what makes the difference: this isn't a product team analyzing a market — it's someone solving his own problem.


One Founder, Ten AI Agents

TodayOff isn't built by a traditional development team. Ümit orchestrates a crew of ten specialized AI agents — covering strategy, code, design, content, quality assurance, and support. Each agent has a clearly defined role: from the CTO agent responsible for architecture and code reviews, to backend and QA agents ("no deploy without green QA"), to the support agent answering customer inquiries.

That's unusual — which is exactly why we're open about it: meet the whole crew on our team page, with full transparency about who (or what) handles which task. Modern AI tooling allows a focused founder to build a product at the level of a much larger team — with iteration cycles of days, not quarters.

The technical infrastructure is managed by IPC24 — the studio behind TodayOff, specializing in AI-assisted product development: scalable, GDPR-compliant, and designed with German SMBs in mind.


Why This Matters for You as an SMB Buyer

When evaluating a SaaS tool for your business, the key question isn't only "Can this tool do what I need?" — it's also: "Will this tool still exist in two years? Will it keep improving? Are there real people behind it who respond to my feedback?"

With TodayOff, the answer to all three questions is: Yes.

Fast iteration: Because product decisions and execution are in one hand, user requests can be implemented in days — not quarters.

No corporate runaround: You talk directly to the founder who owns the product. No support ticket limbo.

Technical solidity: The AI-assisted build process doesn't mean lower quality — quite the opposite: fixed quality gates are part of the process, and the AI crew maintains a review and testing level no single person would ever have time for.


What This Means for the Future

TodayOff is not a VC-funded startup with an expiry date. It's a sustainably built product that grows with its customers' needs. The team stays small and focused — but development velocity is high because the infrastructure was designed from day one for scale and rapid iteration.

For HR teams and business owners in SMBs, that means: you're investing in a tool backed by a founder who knows the problem firsthand, actively developed, and not going to leave you in the lurch six months from now.


Try TodayOff for free — no credit card, no setup fees: app.todayoff.de

Questions about the tech or the product roadmap? Write us — the founder reads every message.

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