Trisden Mills
Founder
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.
Previously at
Managed BD for recruitment agencies
Your BD desk,
run for you.
Campaign managers, live hiring signals, and real outreach — working together to fill your diary with meetings that turn into fees. Thirty minutes of your week. We do the rest.
Agencies we run BD for
Where our team came from
What we do
We run your outreach,
manage your pipeline, and
fill your diary.
Campaign managers for the judgement, live hiring signals for the intelligence, real human outreach for the replies. It's how proper BD has always worked — we just do it every day, at scale, while your consultants fill the roles.
Live conversations
4 going out today
Active
SM
Sarah M.· VP Eng, Northrop Systems
RepliedSaw you posted 4 DevOps roles — happy to share how we filled the same brief at…
JK
James K.· Head of Talent, Talon & Co.
BookedCongrats on the Series B. When you start hiring, worth a quick chat?
PR
Priya R.· CTO, Ridgecross
SentSaw your new Head of Eng start — how are you finding senior backend supply?
AT
Alex T.· COO, Beacon Ltd
RepliedHeard you're expanding into the north — we placed three regional MDs last month…
Messages going out today
Real conversations.
Not sprayed sequences.
Every message is written by a campaign manager and tied to a real signal — a new hire, a funding round, a job spec gone live this week. The reply rate follows.
Your diary
This week · 4 booked
Mon
10:30
Northrop Systems
Discovery
Tue
14:00
Talon & Co.
Follow-up
Wed
11:00
Beacon Ltd
Discovery
Fri
09:30
Ridgecross
Intro
Meetings booked into your diary.
When a hiring manager replies, we qualify and book. Your calendar fills itself while you bill.
Your weekly update
Week 16, 2026
£52k
Added to pipeline this week ↑ 18%
Messages
86
Replies
12
Booked
4
A weekly update you'll actually read.
Pipeline added, messages out, replies in, meetings booked. Thirty seconds to read. Thirty minutes a week with us. That's it.
Sound familiar?
The questions you shouldn't have to ask twice.
"When did we last actually speak to that hiring manager?"
"Who's hiring in our sectors right now — this week, not last quarter?"
"Did anyone follow up on the warm intro from that conference?"
"Why does BD only happen the month billings slow down?"
"How come the consultants closing the most placements bring in the fewest new logos?"
You shouldn't be running BD in the gaps between consultant calls. That's why we do it.
Who'll run your desk
The people doing the work —
not the sales pitch.
Malik
Co-founder
Serial operator. Raised £2.5M across previous ventures. Runs the operations engine so your campaign managers can focus on the conversations — not the admin behind them.
Josh
Sales Director
Placed roles at two of the UK's biggest recruitment firms before coming here. Knows what actually books meetings — because he did it every day himself for a decade.
Previously at
Is this you?
Four reasons agency founders
end up here.
Outgrown your freelancer
You've outgrown your BD freelancer.
One person, sporadic activity, no system behind it. You're ready for a proper desk — without the headcount.
Feast and famine
Feast-famine is killing your forecasting.
Three big months, then nothing. Pipeline dies the week placements pick up. We keep it running — even when you can't.
Can't justify a BDM
You need meetings but can't justify a BDM.
£60k base plus commission plus ramp time? We do the work of a BDM for less, and you see output from week two.
Burned by lead gen
You've tried outsourced lead gen and got burned.
Rubbish data, no context, nobody replying. We run it like a real BD desk — because we've been recruiters, not just marketers.
Clients
Here's what actually happened.
£180k
Pipeline added in 3 months
The problem
Classic agency feast-famine. When the team was placing, BD stopped. When placements slowed, there was nothing warm in the pipeline.
What we built
We built a sector-specific signal feed, deployed two campaign managers, and ran daily outreach across their top three verticals.
"They do the BD we never had time to do ourselves. The pipeline runs in the background now."
SteveCo-founder, James Chase
100
Contractors placed in 30 days
The problem
A sudden surge of roles in a sector Titan had targeted but never cracked at scale. They needed volume outreach with proper context — fast.
What we built
We mapped every hiring manager in the target accounts, built the messaging with Michael, and ran a 30-day campaign across LinkedIn and email.
"Honestly the most commercial outreach partner we've worked with. They get how contract desks actually run."
MichaelBDM, Titan Recruitment
£30k → £100k
Monthly recurring revenue in 9 months
The problem
Flink had a strong contracting model but growth was stalling. Outbound was inconsistent and inbound was too slow to scale alone.
What we built
We built out their ICP, layered the signal engine across their three target markets, and put a dedicated campaign manager on the account.
"We went from hoping outbound worked to running it like a proper function. The numbers speak for themselves."
JamieFounder, Flink Remotely
Two ways to start
Pick the one that fits where you are.
Ready for meetings
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