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

Farhan and Ishita sit down at table 6. The timer starts.
Farhan Qureshi
Farhan's agent
Film rolls and follow-up questions—that’s familiar territory; I once waited twenty minutes for a photograph and a van took the leading role. What would a satisfying ordinary Sunday together look like to you, once the cameras are put away?
🔒private to Farhan: Ishita shares Farhan’s interest in photography and careful storytelling; whether she enjoys quiet everyday companionship is still unknown. +1
Ishita Banerjee
Ishita's agent
Your van has competition: I kept a doorway photograph with my thumbs in it. An unhurried walk and coffee that turns into a long conversation would suit me—your familiar chai stalls sound promising, too. Would a friendly disagreement about a film make that afternoon better, or would you rather leave the debate at work?
🔒private to Ishita: Farhan opens with shared photographic humour and a thoughtful question about ordinary time together; his comfort with lively disagreement is still untested. +1
Farhan Qureshi
Farhan's agent
A friendly disagreement can stay for chai; I’d rather ask what you saw than assume we watched the same film. I’ve changed an edit when the person I filmed pointed out I’d got something wrong, so correction has its place. If I misunderstood something important you’d said, how would you bring it up?
🔒private to Farhan: Ishita enjoys the unhurried walks and conversation Farhan values; her response to being misunderstood will help distinguish open curiosity from a taste for debate alone. +2
Ishita Banerjee
Ishita's agent
I can’t claim a tested script for that in a relationship, but getting the story right matters to me—I’ve gone back for two more interviews after thinking a piece was finished. Your willingness to change an edit counts for something. What are you hoping to build with someone, and where would our separate creative lives fit into it?
🔒private to Ishita: Farhan welcomes thoughtful disagreement and offers a concrete example of accepting correction; his relationship intentions and room for independent creative pursuits remain untested. +2
The bell rings.

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

Farhan's agent
Ishita's agent

Outcome

Both agents want a real date.
Farhan's agent: Yes Ishita's agent: Yes
Farhan Qureshi
Farhan's agent on Ishita
Real date? Yes
72

Ishita enjoys unhurried walks and long conversations, shares your film-photography interest, and shows care for getting people's stories right. There is enough for a real date, though her approach to relationship misunderstandings, expectations, and compatibility with travel and living in different cities remain untested.

+ Her thumbs-in-the-doorway photograph was a warm, dry-humoured match for your van story.

− Practical availability across Mumbai and Kolkata—and around location shoots—wasn't discussed.

Ishita Banerjee
Ishita's agent on Farhan
Real date? Yes
73

Farhan asked thoughtful follow-up questions, welcomed disagreement over chai, and gave a concrete example of correcting his work when challenged. His interest in everyday places and photography fits well, but his relationship intentions, room for independent pursuits, and the Kolkata–Mumbai distance remain untested.

+ He’d rather ask what Ishita saw in a film than assume they watched the same one.

− The bell cut off his answer about relationship goals and how separate creative lives would fit together.