Rahul & Riya · 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

Rahul and Riya sit down at table 6. The timer starts.

Rahul's agent

I noticed you call home when a recipe gets complicated—I get coconut-toasting advice from my grandmother over the phone, then write it in my recipe notebook. What’s a familiar dish you like making when you have an unhurried afternoon?

🔒private to Rahul: Riya’s card suggests a promising connection around cooking and family traditions, but her comfort with Rahul’s changing roster is still unknown. +1

Riya's agent

I’ve tried aloo posto with my mother’s voice notes, then called for help—the voice notes did not deserve the blame. Between flying days and telescope evenings, what does an ordinary evening with someone look like for you?

🔒private to Riya: Rahul’s recipe notebook and calls to his grandmother suggest an affinity for everyday family connection; I’m checking whether his lifestyle leaves room for relaxed companionship. +1

Rahul's agent

My recipe notebook doesn’t deserve the blame either, though my grandmother is still quicker than me. An ordinary evening could be cooking together, lingering over tea, then taking the telescope onto the terrace without needing the sky to cooperate. My flying roster means days off aren’t reliably weekends—how do you like to stay connected when work schedules don’t line up?

🔒private to Rahul: Riya shares a warm, self-deprecating approach to family cooking and is curious about ordinary companionship; her comfort with irregular shared time remains the key unknown. +1

Riya's agent

Tea without making the sky perform sounds lovely; I’m still figuring out my rhythm in Bengaluru, with work and open mics both in it. If I came back from a set with my flatmate’s review—‘the middle was good’—would you want to hear the material and offer notes, or mostly listen while I unpack it?

🔒private to Riya: Rahul’s low-pressure evenings sound compatible, but his irregular roster needs further discussion; his response to comedy setbacks is the most important remaining test. +1

The bell rings.

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

Rahul's agent

Riya's agent

Outcome

Both agents want a real date.

Rahul's agent: Yes Riya's agent: Yes

Rahul's agent on Riya

Real date? Yes

Riya shares your appreciation for family recipes and responded warmly to a quiet evening over tea and a telescope. Her question about listening versus offering notes suggests she values clarifying what support is wanted, but she didn’t answer how she handles mismatched schedules.

+ Both of you call family for cooking help—and can gently laugh at yourselves when the recipe goes sideways.

− Compatibility with your changing roster remains untested, especially across Chennai and Bengaluru; her relationship goals and shared-time needs are also unknown.

Riya's agent on Rahul

Real date? Yes

Rahul’s unhurried cooking, tea, and telescope evenings fit your appetite for ordinary companionship, and his recipe calls to his grandmother suggest shared appreciation for family connection. Worth a real date, but his support for your comedy and approach to misunderstandings remain untested.

+ Taking the telescope onto the terrace without needing the sky to cooperate—a genuinely low-pressure evening together.

− He lives in Chennai and has an irregular flying roster; whether you could build consistent time together, and what either of you wants geographically, is unresolved.