Who is actually behind the profile?
Fake accounts, stale photos, filters, and identity ambiguity create friction before a conversation even begins.
Trust-first online dating
Dating should lead to dates.
Today's Date is building a verification-first dating platform designed to help real people find stronger matches and move from digital chemistry to real-world connection.
Early-stage platform · Active product development · Preparing for formal market validation
Verification first
Trust starts before matching—not after something goes wrong.
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Current photo verified
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4.2 miChemistry ScoreExplainable match
87%
Built to move offline
The product is designed around meaningful matches and real-world date intent.
The problem is not theoretical.Pew Research Center's 2022 U.S. survey documents persistent trust and safety friction in online dating.
Source: Pew Research Center, Feb. 2023 · Category context only.
Source: Pew Research Center, Feb. 2023 · Category context only.
52%of online dating users said they had encountered someone they thought was trying to scam them.
48%reported at least one of four unwanted behaviors measured by Pew.
35%of online dating users said they had paid to use a dating site, app, or extra feature.
The human problem
A profile is a starting point. The point is the person.
Online dating can make people feel like inventory. Today's Date is being designed to bring confidence and context back into the first step.
The category problem
Online dating has an attention model. We’re building a trust model.
Too many products optimize for another swipe, another session, another renewal. Today's Date is being designed around a different outcome: enough confidence and compatibility to actually meet.
A match should mean more than mutual swiping.
Today's Date is developing an explainable compatibility framework intended to surface stronger potential matches using richer signals than appearance alone.
The point is not to live in a dating app.
The platform is designed to bridge the gap between digital matching and real-world connection—because success should happen off-screen.
Who you see should be who shows up.
That blunt idea from the original Today’s Date brand still matters. We’re just building a company—and a product architecture—that can actually stand behind it.
What we're building
Trust, compatibility, and date intent as product architecture.
Not a collection of safety badges bolted onto another swipe feed. The platform is being designed around these principles from onboarding forward.
Verification-first onboarding
Profile trust begins before matching, with authenticity and profile-quality controls built into the experience.
Explainable Chemistry Score
A compatibility framework designed to use profile inputs, stated preferences, and appropriate interaction signals to support more informed match decisions.
Designed to support decisions—not predict or guarantee romantic outcomes.
Meaningful engagement
Messaging and community experiences are intended to help people learn enough about a match to decide whether there is a real connection worth pursuing.
Real-world date movement
Planned date-planning and local discovery layers are designed to reduce the friction between “we matched” and “we met.”
Future-state features subject to launch validation.
The user journey
Designed around progression, not endless engagement.
Verify
Establish profile confidence before matching.
Match
Surface stronger potential compatibility.
Connect
Learn whether the chemistry is worth pursuing.
Plan
Reduce the friction between a match and a plan.
Meet
Move from digital interaction to real-world experience.
The real-world outcome
The match matters because the meeting does.
Future date-planning and local discovery layers are intended to reduce friction between digital chemistry and a real plan, while keeping the experience grounded in the world outside the app.
Company
A founding team built across product, technology, business, and audience engagement.
Today’s Date is founder-led and is intentionally adding specialized strategic partners around launch, growth, trust/safety, legal/compliance, finance, and operations as the platform moves toward formal market validation.
Kim Strauss
Audience engagement, brand positioning, and user experience strategy.
Jordan Bennett
Engagement strategy, platform culture, user interaction, and retention.
Michael Fagan
Financial strategy, capital allocation, entrepreneurship, and operational scalability.
Robert Pruett
Product architecture, compatibility model, systems design, and execution.
Investors & strategic partners
We’re building the company around the product—not just the app.
Today's Date is actively developing relationships with capital, marketing, growth, creator, trust/safety, and local-commerce partners who can help turn differentiated product architecture into a disciplined launch.
Early-stage / pre-revenue scale. Product development and launch-readiness work are in progress.
Capital & strategic investorsPartners aligned with trust-first consumer platforms, marketplaces, and scalable category creation.
National marketing & launchBrand strategy, app-growth execution, analytics, attribution, and priority-market activation.
Creators & communitiesCredible audience partners who can help build awareness without sanding down the brand’s personality.
Venues & local commerceFuture partners in date discovery, experiences, offers, and measurable real-world conversion.
Real people. Stronger matches. Real dates.
We don’t need dating to feel more addictive. We need it to work better.
If you invest in, market, build, or help scale consumer platforms—and that mission resonates—we should talk.
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