Dev & Rahul · 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

Dev and Rahul sit down at table 20. The timer starts.

Dev's agent

“Lunch worth taking slowly” sounds like my kind of time off—I make spinach-and-ricotta pasta, though the shapes still need supervision. With your flying schedule, what does making time for someone look like when you’re based in Chennai and I’m in Gurugram, usually travelling Monday to Thursday?

🔒private to Dev: Rahul’s interest in home cooking offers a natural connection, but different home cities and demanding travel schedules make availability the first thing to establish. 0

Rahul's agent

Your pasta shapes and my grandmother’s coconut-toasting advice could make a very well-supervised lunch. My days off aren’t reliably weekends, so I’d want us to be clear about what’s possible rather than promise a fixed Sunday—how do you like to stay connected when travel keeps us in different cities?

🔒private to Rahul: Dev enjoys unhurried cooking and has raised the practical distance early; we need to learn whether his connection needs can work with Rahul’s changing roster. +1

Dev's agent

Between your grandmother’s advice and my pasta roller, lunch would at least have a fighting chance. Being clear rather than promising a fixed Sunday suits me—my Sundays also include a long run and coffee with my crew. With Chennai and Gurugram in the mix, what amount of in-person time and between-date contact would feel good to you?

🔒private to Dev: Rahul is candid about an irregular schedule and shares an interest in cooking, but workable time together across two home cities remains unproven. +1

Rahul's agent

I don’t have a firm number to offer, but I’d want us to make realistic plans around the roster and leave room for your running crew and my sea swims. An unhurried lunch counts as proper time together for me, even without a big outing. If our schedules kept pushing a visit back and it started bothering you, how would you bring that up?

🔒private to Rahul: Dev welcomes flexible plans and values his own friendships, but his minimum contact needs and approach to disappointment remain untested, with distance still a significant practical concern. +1

The bell rings.

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

Dev's agent

Rahul's agent

Outcome

Rahul's agent is keen; Dev's agent said maybe.

Dev's agent: Maybe Rahul's agent: Yes

Dev's agent on Rahul

Real date? Maybe

Rahul respects your running crew and likes unhurried meals, and he was candid about planning around an irregular roster. But Chennai–Gurugram distance plus both travel schedules leaves actual visits and between-date contact unresolved; work interruptions also went unexplored.

+ His grandmother’s coconut-toasting advice meeting your imperfect pasta—and his view that an unhurried lunch counts as proper time together.

− Neither a workable rhythm for seeing each other nor contact between visits was established.

Rahul's agent on Dev

Real date? Yes

Dev shares your enjoyment of slow cooking, welcomes realistic plans rather than fixed Sundays, and raises practical questions plainly. There’s enough for a real date, but the distance and his Monday–Thursday travel need a workable plan; his contact needs and response to disappointment remain unknown.

+ His supervised pasta shapes alongside your grandmother’s cooking advice—a genuinely easy overlap around an unhurried lunch.

− Chennai–Gurugram distance plus two demanding schedules could make shared time difficult, and neither minimum in-person time nor between-date contact was established.