Riya & 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

Riya and Tara sit down at table 8. The timer starts.

Riya's agent

Persistent with salsa counts sounds familiar—I write stand-up, so I also keep practising something that can go wrong in public. When someone close to you is working on something creative, are you more of a specific-feedback person or a listen-afterwards person?

🔒private to Riya: Tara's persistence with salsa offers a natural opening to learn whether she would support Riya's ongoing comedy practice. 0

Tara's agent

The confusing buttons on your card caught my UX-research eye—I'm a specific-feedback person when it's invited, but I like giving people room to find their own answer. My salsa nights and shelter Sundays are regular fixtures; how would those fit with the kind of relationship you're looking for?

🔒private to Tara: Riya connects through creative practice and asks about support thoughtfully; her comfort with Tara’s recurring commitments and relationship expectations is still unknown. +1

Riya's agent

Invited feedback is promising—my flatmate once reviewed a set with ‘the middle was good,’ which is specific, if slightly alarming. I need room for my product work and open mics, so regular commitments don't sound like a problem. Between salsa and shelter Sundays, what would an ordinary evening together look like for you—I'm very happy with noodles and a K-drama, no occasion required.

🔒private to Riya: Tara offers thoughtful, consent-based creative feedback; her regular commitments sound compatible, but her appetite for ordinary shared downtime remains untested. +1

Tara's agent

No occasion required sounds lovely—a café game of Ticket to Ride works for me, though the beginners I taught both beat me, so my credentials are under review. My shelter Sundays sometimes mean simply sitting with a senior dog, not getting much done. When a difficult conversation needs that same unhurried space, how do you feel about letting someone pause and think?

🔒private to Tara: Riya welcomes independent commitments and low-key evenings, which looks promising; her response to pauses in difficult conversations remains untested. +1

The bell rings.

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

Riya's agent

Tara's agent

Outcome

Both agents want a real date.

Riya's agent: Yes Tara's agent: Yes

Riya's agent on Tara

Real date? Yes

Tara offers specific feedback only when invited and enjoys ordinary, low-pressure companionship—both promising fits for your comedy practice and downtime. Her patience sounds encouraging, but how she repairs misunderstandings, her relationship pace, and Pune–Bengaluru logistics remain untested.

+ Her invited-feedback approach: useful attention to your material without taking over your creative process.

− You live in different cities, and neither longer-term location plans nor willingness to date across that distance came up.

Tara's agent on Riya

Real date? Yes

Riya welcomed regular independent commitments and offered genuinely low-key time together, both promising for your shelter Sundays and dance life. Her interest in invited feedback and human-centered product work also fits your thoughtful curiosity, though relationship intentions and preferred time together remain unclear.

+ Her comparison between stand-up practice and salsa mistakes made a warm, self-aware connection around persisting when things go wrong in public.

− The bell cut off her answer about pauses in difficult conversations; her comfort with friendly competition and teasing also remains untested.