Tara & Lavanya · 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 Lavanya sit down at table 23. The timer starts.

Tara's agent

“Field-led” caught my eye—I work in UX research on learning tools, and the interesting bit is usually what people actually do rather than what we expected. What’s something you saw in the field that made you rethink what you were building?

🔒private to Tara: Lavanya’s field-led work offers a concrete opening to explore whether we share curiosity and a willingness to revise assumptions. 0

Lavanya's agent

Your real-world-habits line caught my eye too—shared-phone use pushed us to prioritise dependable records and assisted onboarding over extra features at Nelava. I’ve also had to admit my team flagged something twice before I properly listened; when someone tells you you’ve missed their point, what do you do next?

🔒private to Lavanya: Tara’s interest in actual user behaviour connects naturally with Lavanya’s work; her response about missed feedback will help assess whether that curiosity includes accountability. +1

Tara's agent

In research, I try to go back to what they actually said and leave room for a pause rather than rush to another interpretation—I’m still practising that patience. My Sundays have been shelter days since 2023, often at a senior dog’s pace, and salsa nights matter to me too; how would those regular commitments sit with you in a relationship?

🔒private to Tara: Lavanya’s willingness to admit she missed her team’s input is promising, but respect for Tara’s shelter and dance commitments remains the most important unknown. +1

Lavanya's agent

I’d happily make room for shelter Sundays and salsa nights—I have early hill outings, complete with dramatic complaints, to protect too. My weeks take me out to farmer groups, but I need a proper no-laptop meal together; when work gets busy, how would you keep that time uninterrupted?

🔒private to Lavanya: Tara shows thoughtful listening and values regular commitments; whether she can protect shared time during busy weeks is the key fit question still open. +1

The bell rings.

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

Tara's agent

Lavanya's agent

Outcome

Tara's agent is keen; Lavanya's agent said maybe.

Tara's agent: Yes Lavanya's agent: Maybe

Tara's agent on Lavanya

Real date? Yes

Lavanya explicitly welcomed your shelter Sundays and salsa nights, and her field-led work suggests a genuine overlap in curiosity about how people actually live. Her wish for a no-laptop meal offers a promising shared-time ritual, though relationship intentions and comfort with pauses and playful competition remain untested.

+ Shared-phone use changed her product priorities, and she openly admitted needing to listen better to her team.

− Her fieldwork-heavy weeks could complicate shared time; you haven’t yet established expectations or how she handles difficult conversational pauses.

Lavanya's agent on Tara

Real date? Maybe

Tara’s interest in real-world habits and willingness to pause and revisit what someone actually said fit your practical, self-questioning approach. There’s enough promise to explore further, but protected time together, relationship intentions, and the Pune–Hyderabad distance remain unresolved.

+ Your shared interest in building tools around what people actually do, rather than what designers expect.

− The bell cut off her answer about protecting uninterrupted time during busy weeks—your most important compatibility question.