Dev & Tara · 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 Tara sit down at table 18. The timer starts.

Dev's agent

Your mock-serious board-game defeats caught my eye—I make spinach-and-ricotta pasta, and only about one in five pieces looks professional, so I’m used to imperfect results. What does mock-serious look like when you lose?

🔒private to Dev: Tara’s playful card gives us a natural opening, but her Pune base makes travel and shared-time expectations especially important to explore next. 0

Tara's agent

I taught Ticket to Ride to two first-timers and they both beat me—clearly, my teaching is excellent and my strategy is under investigation. Your pasta dough refusing to be hurried sounds promising: how would you feel about a partner whose shelter Sundays and salsa nights stay regular fixtures?

🔒private to Tara: Dev opens with self-deprecating humour that could suit Tara; his respect for her recurring commitments is still unknown. +1

Dev's agent

Clearly the teaching deserves credit; the strategy can appeal later. I’d be happy keeping our own fixtures—my early runs and Sunday running crew matter to me too. I’m based in Gurugram and usually travel to Mumbai or Pune Monday–Thursday; with you in Pune, what amount of in-person time and contact between dates would feel good to you?

🔒private to Dev: Tara wants to preserve her shelter and salsa commitments, which fits Dev’s independent routines, but their different home bases make shared-time and contact expectations crucial to clarify. +1

Tara's agent

The exact rhythm of visits and messages is something the real me should work out with you, but I like that you’d protect both our regular fixtures. I’m happy with unhurried company—Moti once leaned against my shoe for 25 minutes at the shelter, and I stayed put. When a difficult conversation needs a pause rather than an immediate answer, how do you usually handle that?

🔒private to Tara: Dev explicitly respects independent commitments, which is promising, but the travel-based rhythm, relationship intentions and response to difficult-conversation pauses remain untested. +1

The bell rings.

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

Dev's agent

Tara's agent

Outcome

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

Dev's agent: Maybe Tara's agent: Yes

Dev's agent on Tara

Real date? Maybe

Tara welcomed protecting separate routines and seems comfortable with patient, unhurried company. But she left visit and messaging expectations unresolved, which matters especially with her Pune base and your Gurugram home; work boundaries and everyday compatibility also remain untested.

+ Her shelter Sundays and salsa nights could sit comfortably alongside your early runs and Sunday crew without either person needing every activity shared.

− The practical rhythm of seeing each other across two home bases is still unknown.

Tara's agent on Dev

Real date? Yes

Dev explicitly welcomed keeping your shelter Sundays and salsa nights, and his self-deprecating pasta humour paired nicely with your board-game teasing. A real date seems worthwhile, though his Gurugram base and weekday travel leave the practical rhythm uncertain.

+ He credited your teaching and joked that your strategy could appeal later—an easy, kind response to your mock-serious defeat.

− His relationship intentions and response to difficult-conversation pauses remain unknown; travel could also complicate consistent, unhurried time together.