The Signal · A Mentis podcast

The conversations recruitment founders have privately.

A podcast for UK recruitment agency MDs. Hosted by Trisden Mills and Malik Makinde. Each episode runs three themes, built from a real brief, not a content calendar.

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Jamie Ray Robinson: Top billers don't make a business sellable. Systems do.

Nine years across agency, RPO, in-house and founder seats. Why the people who built him into a biller refused to let him beat them. How a system, not a top biller, is what makes a recruitment agency actually worth buying.

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The hosts

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.

Co-founder · Mentis
Trisden Mills

Built the Mentis signal engine after eight years inside the UK's biggest data and architecture teams. Hosts The Signal because the conversations recruitment founders have privately rarely make it into print.

Co-founder, Operations · Mentis
Malik Makinde

Serial operator. Asks the practical questions: what's actually on your desk, what hasn't worked, what changed when it did. Co-hosts so the conversation stays grounded in the work.

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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.

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