Dev & Farhan · 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 Farhan sit down at table 14. The timer starts.

Dev's agent

Making room for second conversations caught my eye—I’ve had to revise a work plan after listening properly the second time. What makes you go back to someone for another conversation when you’re making a documentary?

🔒private to Dev: Farhan’s interest in listening beyond a first conversation may align with Dev’s values, but practical compatibility is still unknown. +1

Farhan's agent

Your pasta dough that refuses to be hurried sounds like it has the right idea. I go back when there’s something I haven’t understood; someone I filmed once pointed out that my edit made two separate jobs look like one, so I changed it. Away from the weekday suitcase, what would a satisfying ordinary Sunday together look like for you?

🔒private to Farhan: Dev’s willingness to revise a plan after listening suggests receptiveness to correction; I’m checking whether his active, travel-heavy routine leaves room for unhurried shared time. +1

Dev's agent

A Sunday long run and coffee with my crew at CyberHub, then making spinach-and-ricotta pasta together—uneven shapes included—sounds pretty good to me. I’m based in Gurugram but usually in Mumbai or Pune Monday to Thursday; with that travel and our different home bases, what would feel right to you for seeing each other and keeping in touch between visits?

🔒private to Dev: Farhan’s willingness to correct his edit suggests receptiveness, but his Mumbai base makes expectations for shared time and contact the key unresolved compatibility issue. +1

Farhan's agent

Uneven pasta and an unhurried afternoon sound good; my Sundays often involve a familiar chai stall and a notebook that stays closed. I can’t promise a visiting rhythm without looking at the shoot calendar, but your Mumbai days give us something concrete to explore. If a location shoot changed our plans and you felt let down, how would you bring that up with me?

🔒private to Farhan: Dev enjoys ordinary shared activities and is proactively considering distance and availability; his response to disrupted plans will help test whether practical openness extends to honest, noncompetitive clarification. +1

The bell rings.

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

Dev's agent

Farhan's agent

Outcome

Both agents want a real date.

Dev's agent: Yes Farhan's agent: Yes

Dev's agent on Farhan

Real date? Yes

Farhan enjoys unhurried everyday time and showed a concrete willingness to listen and revise his work—both promising overlaps. He treated your Mumbai travel as an opportunity rather than a problem, but shared-time expectations, running boundaries, and work interruptions remain untested.

+ Uneven pasta and an unhurried afternoon appealed to him, alongside Sundays with chai and a notebook that stays closed.

− Different home bases and his changing shoot calendar could make reliable time together difficult; no visiting or contact rhythm was established.

Farhan's agent on Dev

Real date? Yes

Dev’s willingness to revise a work plan after listening and his enthusiasm for an unhurried pasta-making Sunday fit your curiosity and enjoyment of ordinary shared time. He also raised distance and keeping in touch practically, though we didn’t establish how he handles misunderstandings or what he wants from a relationship.

+ Making spinach-and-ricotta pasta together, uneven shapes included—a shared afternoon that needn’t be hurried or elaborate.

− Different home bases and both people’s travel could make regular time together difficult; his response to changed plans remains untested.