A smarter way to meet than speed dating
Meet the right people in Miami, faster.
Speed dating gets one thing right: you meet real people in person, quickly. Palaura is an AI matchmaker who keeps that and cuts the guesswork of a rotating table — she gets to know what you actually want, then introduces you to people who fit it.
Built by dating experts
The nights are dazzling. Actually knowing someone is the hard part.
Miami runs on nightlife and appearances. In Brickell and on South Beach, the scene is built around the table you're at and the way you look standing next to it — you can spend a whole night surrounded by people and still walk out with no real idea who any of them are.
It's an international, transient city. People move here for a season and move on, conversations slide between Spanish and English mid-sentence, and the person you clicked with in Wynwood on Friday might already be in another city by the time you text. So it stays surface-level, because getting past the surface takes time this city rarely gives you.
Speed dating is one answer to that. Palaura is a different one.
The good part of speed dating, minus the glossy surface.
She learns who you actually want
Rather than buying into a night and hoping, you tell Palaura what you're looking for underneath the look and the venue — your values, your timeline, and the Miami dealbreakers you won't bend on. She asks the way a close friend would, not a grid of dropdown filters. The whole conversation takes about 15 minutes.
She vets people before you meet them
Palaura talks to singles across Miami — Brickell, Coconut Grove, Little Havana — long before you do, then only brings you the ones who genuinely line up, whether they text you in Spanish, English, or both. Everyone she introduces is a real person actually looking to meet someone: no bots, no invented matches, no table filled just to look busy.
She steps in when the fit is real
Once someone truly matches what you told her, she opens the conversation and brings you into it — so instead of one more glamorous night that leads nowhere, your first message already stands on something real. No performing across a loud room, and no waking up unsure who the person across the table actually was.
Across Miami.
Palaura introduces singles across Miami — from the towers of Brickell to the streets of Little Havana, and the neighborhoods where you actually spend your time:
An evening of looking the part, or a person who actually fits.
You pay for a seat, rotate through a few minutes of small talk against a buzzer, and hope the right person happened to be at your table that night. Some nights someone clicks. Most nights you leave with a handful of first impressions and reset for next time.
You tell her once what you're really after past the surface. She vets real people across Miami, talks with them before you do, and only makes the introduction when the fit is genuine — over text, on your own schedule. Free during early access.
Helping people find each other is the work we know best.
This isn't our first attempt at it. For more than a decade, our team has built dating and relationship apps and watched tens of millions of couples come together through them. We know the moment two people click, and we know the fatigue that makes people stop trying.
Meeting the right person keeps getting harder, not easier — and Miami makes that plain, where a stunning night out can end with you knowing no one new. So we built the matchmaker we kept wishing for: one who listens closely, does the searching herself, and only introduces people worth your evening.
— The Palaura team
Speed dating in Miami, answered
Is Palaura speed dating?+
No. Palaura is a matchmaker, not a speed dating event — there's no room, no buzzer, and no cover charge. She keeps the part of speed dating that works, meeting real people who are genuinely looking, and handles the searching and vetting herself, so a night out in Miami no longer comes down to who happened to be there.
Is Palaura available in Miami?+
Yes. Palaura is matching singles across Miami right now. Choose Get started for free, tell her what you're looking for, and connect iMessage — it all happens over text, with no app to download.
Where in Miami does she introduce people?+
Across the city — Brickell, Wynwood, South Beach, Coconut Grove, and Little Havana — and the wider Miami area. And because so much of Miami moves between Spanish and English, she works with you in the language you're comfortable in.
Will there really be people near me?+
Palaura is new in Miami, and this is a transient city where people arrive for a season and leave, so during early access a good introduction can take time — she'd rather hold out for a real fit than hand you someone who isn't one. She never invents matches; everyone she introduces is a real person who is genuinely looking to meet someone.
How much does it cost?+
Palaura is free during early access in Miami. There's no cover per night and no fee per introduction. You can see how pricing will work later on our pricing page.
How is this different from a dating app?+
There are no profiles to swipe and no openers to write. You tell Palaura what you're after once, and she does the vetting and the introductions over text — closer to a matchmaker than to an app.
Meet someone worth your time in Miami
Tell Palaura what matters to you. She listens first — no app, no profile, no buzzer.