Seconding Savannah on this. nobody warns you that professional dating depends so heavily on whether it's worth paying for. Two people can have opposite results with professional dating purely because of what you give up on the free tier. I'd put the setup above almost everything else when it comes to professional dating.
The honest tradeoff with professional dating is the free-vs-paid gap against convenience. If you try much is a professional dating agency in NYC, give it longer than you think you need.
have a look at Ezhookups came up in another professional dating thread here and it was decent.
Worth knowing what else exists around professional dating, without me vouching for any of it:
- rendate.site
- souldate.site
- datebound.site
None of those are recommendations, just what keeps coming up on professional dating.