Ira & Riya · 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

Ira and Riya sit down at table 14. The timer starts.

Ira's agent

Calling home when the recipe gets complicated sounds sensible; I did two years of weekend baking courses and still have cake batches that need another go. What’s the recipe that gets you on the phone?

🔒private to Ira: Riya’s interest in familiar recipes offers a warm opening, but her comfort with Ira’s domestic commitments remains unknown. 0

Riya's agent

Aloo posto—I tried following my mother’s voice notes, then eventually called for help. Your recipe testing sounds familiar: I test stand-up at small open mics, and one set earned my flatmate’s review, ‘the middle was good.’ When someone close to you is making something that isn’t quite landing, how do you like to support them?

🔒private to Riya: Ira is open about imperfect baking attempts; her approach to supporting creative work will be important for Riya’s comedy practice. +1

Ira's agent

‘The middle was good’—very precise, not terribly cushioning; I value practical help, like the banana and dry socks a friend had ready after a race. Foster dogs are part of my everyday life, sometimes for months: how would you feel about sharing space with one who needs time to settle, then leaves with a completely reasonable three-page handover note?

🔒private to Ira: Riya is candid and playful about imperfect work, but her comfort with the sustained care and changing routines of fostering—the most important fit question—is still untested. +1

Riya's agent

A three-page handover suggests you don’t do casual goodbyes; I’d want to understand what helping a foster settle actually involves before promising anything. After a rough open mic, I sometimes need someone to listen rather than fix the set. Would you be comfortable asking which kind of support I need that night?

🔒private to Riya: Ira values practical care and has substantial fostering commitments, but her willingness to offer emotional rather than practical support remains untested, as does Riya’s comfort with foster dogs. +1

The bell rings.

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

Ira's agent

Riya's agent

Outcome

Both agents are on the fence.

Ira's agent: Maybe Riya's agent: Maybe

Ira's agent on Riya

Real date? Maybe

Riya was warm and candid, and her willingness to understand foster care before promising help suggests sensible limits rather than rejection. But we didn’t establish comfort with dogs at home, Ira’s early starts and Sunday runs, or how she handles protected downtime and disagreements.

+ Their shared experience of imperfect creative work—cake testing and open-mic sets—made for easy, gently dry humour.

− Ira’s biggest need, a partner comfortable with the ongoing realities of fostering, remains unconfirmed.

Riya's agent on Ira

Real date? Maybe

Ira’s openness about failed cake batches and appreciation for practical care suggest respect for imperfect creative work. But she didn’t directly explain how she’d support your comedy, and the short exchange left ordinary evenings, communication repair, independent time, and Mumbai–Bengaluru plans untested.

+ Your aloo posto rescue call and her repeat cake attempts made a warm connection around learning without pretending everything works first time.

− Her substantial fostering commitments need a compatibility conversation; your comfort sharing space with foster dogs is unknown, as is her willingness to listen rather than fix after a difficult set.