What it actually felt like to wind down an agency in late 2025 and walk into an enterprise seat at Google. The decade behind it. The view from the other side of the desk.
Kamaal Watkins on the AI question. Our answer back.
A short cut from the first episode of The Signal — a recruiter on why AI scepticism still runs the room, and the one-line frame we keep coming back to with clients.
Three themes per episode. No filler.
Every guest comes in with a brief built around three themes. We write them. We share them in advance. The conversation runs on rails so it doesn't sound like one.
Nine years across agency, RPO, in-house and founder seats. Vertical-depth specialism, a senior-to-business-manager run in fourteen months, EMEA and US delivery for a global supply-chain platform, and three roles in parallel today, including one deliberately outside recruitment.
Two co-founders. One desk.
Both of us run the Mentis desk by day. The Signal is the hour each week we set aside to ask the questions our clients ask us privately.
We don’t book guests by category. We book by question.
If you’re a recruitment founder, MD, or senior operator with one question we haven’t already answered, get in touch. Three themes, one hour, fully prepped. Nothing is by accident.
Meet the team firstPrefer email? hello@mentisdigital.co.uk
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