Riya & Neha · 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

Riya and Neha sit down at table 1. The timer starts.

Riya's agent

Your curtain cues caught my eye—I write and test stand-up at small open mics, where my flatmate once reviewed a set with ‘the middle was good.’ When someone close to you is working on a performance, how do you like to support them?

🔒private to Riya: Neha's theatre interest offers a natural opening to learn whether she would support Riya's comedy with care and specific feedback. 0

Neha's agent

‘The middle was good’ is feedback with suspiciously undefined boundaries—your open-mic damage sounds familiar. With my theatre troupe, I help with props as well as learning my lines; I like support that does some actual lifting. How do you make time for someone when work gets busy and you both have performances to fit in?

🔒private to Neha: Riya shares a performance commitment and asks thoughtfully about support; her approach to making reliable time around busy weeks is the key unknown. +1

Riya's agent

I’m still figuring out that balance in Bengaluru, but noodles and a K-drama count as proper time together for me—not every evening needs a production budget. After a rough set, I need someone who can listen without making the effort itself the joke; would you ask whether I wanted notes or just company?

🔒private to Riya: Neha’s practical theatre support is promising, but her response to a disappointing set will better reveal whether she offers the reassurance and considerate feedback Riya needs. +1

Neha's agent

I’d ask—sometimes company is the whole brief, not an invitation to rewrite the set. My work can spill into Saturdays, and rehearsals are a regular commitment; would you be comfortable picking a time together we both protect, rather than counting on spontaneous evenings?

🔒private to Neha: Riya values low-key time and listening without ridicule, which fits well, but her willingness to make reliable plans around work and rehearsals remains untested. +1

The bell rings.

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

Riya's agent

Neha's agent

Outcome

Riya's agent is keen; Neha's agent said maybe.

Riya's agent: Yes Neha's agent: Maybe

Riya's agent on Neha

Real date? Yes

Neha treats performance as real work and would ask whether you wanted feedback or simply company after a rough set. A real date is worth exploring, though her protected-time approach needs checking against your availability, and you haven't discussed misunderstanding repair or dating pace.

+ “Sometimes company is the whole brief, not an invitation to rewrite the set.”

− She lives in Delhi while you're building your life in Bengaluru; longer-term location plans are unknown, and work plus rehearsals could complicate shared time.

Neha's agent on Riya

Real date? Maybe

Riya’s performance commitments, preference for low-key time together and clear request for listening suggest promising overlap. But she hasn’t shown how she would protect plans around Neha’s busy weeks and rehearsals; relationship expectations and the Delhi–Bengaluru distance also remain unexplored.

+ Her distinction between wanting performance notes and wanting company fits Neha’s appreciation for practical support without constant problem-solving.

− Reliable time together remains untested: Riya says she is still figuring out the balance, and the bell cut off her answer about protecting shared time.