Co-founder
Trisden
Eight years as a Business Analyst, Systems Architect and Data Architect at some of the UK's biggest firms. Built the Mentis signal engine because no agency tool did what real BD actually needed.
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Partners, not competitors.
The first question agency owners ask us: why aren't you recruiters yourselves? Because the work is different. We build the machinery that spots hiring before the job is posted and puts you in the room first. You do the recruiting.
The answer in full
We never place candidates.
If we recruited, we’d be your competitor with better data. So we don’t. We book you the meetings; your consultants close them. Your candidates, your fees, your relationships.
That line is also why sector exclusivity is part of every deal. Your niche's model works for you, and only you.
How the team splits the work
Machines do the reading. Humans do the relationships.
Most outbound for recruiters fails because it's data wired straight into automation. We keep a human judgement layer in between, and a human on every conversation after it.
01
The machine reads the market.
Signal detection watches your whole patch, continuously. Ingestion, correlation, timing. The work machines are actually good at.
02
Humans read the signal.
What does this event mean in your niche, for this person, right now? That judgement layer is the part most BD outfits skip. They go from data straight to automation and wonder why it feels hollow.
03
Humans hold the conversation.
A real person writes, approves and calls. Not a sequence, not a bot. Craft, not volume.
One roof
The team you’d have to hire four ways.
Data engineers, software engineers, process designers and relationship operators, together. Building this in-house means four hires before the first meeting is booked. We arrive with all of it running.
The team
The people doing the work. Not the sales pitch.
Data engineering, operations, recruitment experience, under one roof. You'd need to hire all of it to do this in-house. We're ready on day one.
Where the team's worked before.
The next step
No deck. No pitch.
Thirty minutes on your patch and whether the signals exist in your niche. You'll be talking to the people who do the work.