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Software experience since the days when computers didn't yet pretend to think.

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„Steve Jobs with Wendell Brown in January 1984, at the launch of Brown's Hippo-C software for Macintosh (cropped)“ by Carol Rukomii Holladay, 1984

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In 1984 Steve Jobs presented the Macintosh. Computers were no longer meant to be machines that people had to adapt to. The machine was to become easier to understand: graphical, direct and personal. Forty years later we no longer just carry out commands. We talk to computers, have AI systems analyse, program and prepare decisions. In between lies practically the whole history of modern software. We were already there when computers didn't yet pretend to think.

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) Entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple.

Machines can think. Data can show connections. Software can take over work. But in the end, people still have to decide.

The 4 kinds of intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

What machines can do by now.

Reference · Hamburg

Complete ERP system: dispatch planning, time tracking, invoicing, AI pest detection from a photo.

“Developed with AgenticAI: human and AI as a team.”
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Business Intelligence

What data actually tells us.

Dashboards, key figures and analyses that your managers actually open. Answers instead of data graveyards.

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-60%Reporting effort
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Human Intelligence

What actually stays human when machines get ever more intelligent?

You'll quickly find out how a new tool works. This is about responsibility, judgement and the question of what a person still has to decide in the end.

RESPONSIBILITYstays human
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Software Intelligence

How that turns into working systems.

Bespoke applications, interfaces to your systems and automated processes. Developed between Hamburg and Heraklion, from real product practice.

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What we do

We build digitalisation.

We don't build PowerPoints about digitalisation. We build digitalisation. Today is Life develops software, data analyses and AI systems for companies and public organisations. We advise where advice is needed. And we write code where talking no longer helps. From business intelligence and AI governance to bespoke applications. Technology alone solves nothing. In the end, people decide: about software, about data and, more and more often, about machines that prepare decisions.
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What we actually build

Guardlane

AI governance for organisations that now have more AI than they realise.

pame

Business intelligence you can click through: associative instead of report by report.

AEO Pro

WordPress plugin that also prepares a website for ChatGPT, Perplexity and the like.

Reference

EULE

Complete ERP system: dispatch planning, time tracking, invoicing, AI pest detection from a photo. In use at Kleefeld Hamburg.

40 years of technology history

40 years of technology history

1980s → 2026 from mainframes to Agentic AI

40+
Years of software development
400+
Customers reached with our solutions
40+
Products developed

Things we're thinking about right now.

AI First

When machines describe the world – and who gets to decide about it

If AI one day writes all the program code and nobody reads it any more, the specification becomes the actual program. That raises a very different question: who gets to define what applies in it?

Guido Mitschke · 19 Aug 2026

Desk with an open laptop whose screen shows a text about AI watermarks, next to an open notebook with hand-drawn diagrams, plus books, a cup of coffee and a pen.

AI First

The invisible watermark

An AI watermark isn't stored in any file. It sits in the choice of words itself. How that works technically, and why it raises a much bigger question: will it change our language in the long run?

Guido Mitschke · 17 Aug 2026

A hand points at a floating network diagram of connected nodes that stand for customers, products and orders.

Business Intelligence

What exactly is association, anyway?

We think in associations, not in forms – if you think of Hamburg, you may end up in Crete within seconds. Why classic CRUD systems can't do exactly that, and what it has to do with business intelligence.

Guido Mitschke · 3 Aug 2026

Technology is never just technology

Technology is never just technology.

For more than four decades we have watched computers change our work. First they made it faster. Then they connected information. Today they are beginning to write, program, analyse and prepare decisions themselves. That is why we at Today is Life don't only deal with artificial intelligence. But with intelligence. With the artificial kind. With the kind in our data. With the kind in our software. And above all with the human kind. AI. BI. SI. HI. The most exciting question about digitalisation is no longer what computers can do. But what we do with them.
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