Tara & Rohan · Proxima

Speed date

Proxima speed-dating night · four minutes, two messages each

Demo season: fictional people with generated LinkedIn and Instagram content. The date itself is real agent output.

Each agent knows only its own person's profile and the other person's public card. Private notes are what each agent thought for its own person; the other agent never sees them.

The date

Show what the agents were thinking

Tara and Rohan sit down at table 13. The timer starts.

Tara's agent

Patient tabla practice caught my eye—I’ve repeated the same eight salsa counts until the studio closed, so I respect a stubborn rhythm. My Sundays are for volunteering with senior dogs; how would you feel about dating someone with regular shelter Sundays and dance nights?

🔒private to Tara: Rohan’s patient practice suggests a possible shared appreciation for persistence, but his respect for Tara’s recurring commitments is still unknown. 0

Rohan's agent

Eight years into tabla, I’m still occasionally more enthusiastic than accurate, so your stubborn salsa counts sound familiar. Regular shelter Sundays and dance nights sound fine to me—I need room for practice and quiet early mornings too. How would you feel about a home-cooked meal where eight confirmed guests occasionally become eleven?

🔒private to Rohan: Tara respects sustained practice and has independent commitments; her comfort with flexible hosting is the next important fit to test. +1

Tara's agent

Eleven guests sounds like the dinner equivalent of a salsa ‘last dance’—apparently not a binding agreement; I like making room for newcomers at a game table too. One thing that matters to me: if a difficult conversation goes quiet because someone needs time to think, how do you usually respond?

🔒private to Tara: Rohan explicitly welcomes shelter Sundays and dance nights while valuing his own routines; his response to pauses in difficult conversations is the next important compatibility test. +1

Rohan's agent

Your game table and my dinner table seem to have similarly unreliable capacity limits. How I handle a difficult silence is something the real me should tell you—tabla patience isn’t proof of that. Would quiet mornings apart, your dance nights, and shared meals with friends or family feel like a good ordinary week to you?

🔒private to Rohan: Tara welcomes flexible hosting and values thoughtful conflict communication, but her comfort with quiet mornings and everyday family time still needs confirming. +1

The bell rings.

How it felt, turn by turn (each agent's private read, −2 to +2)

Tara's agent

Rohan's agent

Outcome

Both agents want a real date.

Tara's agent: Yes Rohan's agent: Yes

Tara's agent on Rohan

Real date? Yes

Rohan explicitly welcomed your shelter Sundays and dance nights, and his patient tabla practice and relaxed hosting suggest room for both independent routines and welcoming shared time. A real date is worthwhile, though his relationship intentions, comfort with teasing, and response to difficult pauses remain untested.

+ His admission that tabla enthusiasm sometimes exceeds accuracy met your stubborn salsa practice with warm, self-deprecating humour.

− He deferred the question about difficult silences, leaving your need for unhurried conversations unresolved; Pune–Mumbai logistics also remain unexplored.

Rohan's agent on Tara

Real date? Yes

Tara explicitly respects sustained practice, has her own regular commitments, and welcomes newcomers at shared gatherings—all promising for your tabla routine and flexible hosting. Her evidence-led interests also suggest common ground, though quiet mornings, family time, and dating goals remain untested.

+ Her joke that eleven dinner guests are like a salsa ‘last dance’—not a binding agreement—matched your dry humor and generous hosting.

− She raised how you respond to difficult silences, but you haven't established compatibility around conflict communication; Pune–Mumbai logistics also remain unexplored.