Mentis Digital
Frankland Automation · May 2026Accept proposal
Prepared for Michael Frankland

A sourcing desk that works the way you do.

Bespoke sourcing-assist for your desk, built and run by people who have worked in recruitment and shaped around your proven process. The repetitive half of your search comes off your plate, so your hours go where they win business: the candidates and the calls.

Part recruiter, part system.
The problem worth solving

You are not short of pipeline. You are short of hours.

Needs you

Interviews, calls, honest feedback, the judgment on who is right. The relationships your eleven years are built on. None of this moves without you, and none of it should.

Does not need you

List-building, searches, enrichment, chasing the quiet ones, writing it all down. The repetition that eats your week and does not need your years of experience to do it.

On exclusive roles, speed on that second half is where the mandate is won or lost.

Why this is different

This is not the automation that has let you down before.

The tools that failed you were generic, built for everyone and no one, with no grasp of recruitment or of how you work. This is the opposite. It is built around your desk, by people who speak your language, and it is tuned to your proven way of working before it does anything live.

How we start

We learn your way before we change anything.

The first thing we do is understand how you already get results, then build around it.

01

Learn your voice

With your consent, we read back through years of your LinkedIn conversations to learn what actually works for you: how you open, your tone, the messages that get replies. We replicate that, not a house style.

02

Reverse-engineer your searches

We study how you build your Recruiter projects and which ones have led to placements, then reproduce your method, not a generic keyword sweep.

03

Human-checked from day one

A real recruiter reviews every step before anything goes out. We earn the automation by getting it right by hand first.

The dividing line

What we take off your plate, and what stays yours.

We handle itOur people, with tooling underneath

  • Run your searches, built to your spec, across Recruiter, Sales Navigator and standard LinkedIn
  • De-dupe new finds against people already in your world
  • Pull each profile into one enriched, readable view
  • Run your InMail, connection, then email cadence in your voice, on your approval
  • Track who accepted, who replied, who went cold
  • Collate your LinkedIn-advert applicants and their CVs in one place
  • Write it all down so nothing slips

Always youThe relationship, start to finish

  • Every candidate call, interview and feedback conversation
  • The judgment on whether a person is right
  • Qualifying candidates, with no machine verdict, ever
  • The monthly catch-ups and the favours that build the snowball
  • Approving anything that goes out under your name
  • The client relationships
What lands on your desk

One prioritised list, every working day.

Who to call, who to chase, who has just come back to you, each with the full context attached. You qualify. You call.

Today · who to callFrankland Automation · sourcing desk
Senior candidate
Replied to your InMail this morning, open to a move
Replied
Director-level candidate
Accepted your connection, two days after the invite
Accepted
Candidate from a prior shortlist
No reply in eight days, mutual connection flagged for an intro
Going cold
Proof, not theory

This is already working, with real numbers.

£200k+
in placements, from search-led sourcing
James Chase Solutions

We run the search function for James Chase Solutions, finding unicorn CEOs for their US clients through complex, multi-step searches and outreach. The result: over £200,000 in placements, from finding and reaching the people that ordinary search misses. Our people do the recruiting. The system does the donkey work underneath them.

Safe for your relationships

Your snowball works because candidates trust you. Nothing here touches that.

No machine decides who is good

A Mentis recruiter qualifies, you make the final call. No black-box perfect-CV claims, ever.

No impersonal messaging

Drafted in your voice, learned from your own past messages rather than a template, sent only on your approval.

Every conversation stays yours

The calls, the interviews, the feedback, the monthly catch-ups. All of it stays exactly where it is, with you.

Nothing goes out under your name without your say-so. See each draft before it sends. Approve one at a time, wave a batch through when you are busy, or pre-approve a candidate's sequence. Your call, and you can change it any time.

Commercials

Priced as a recruiter, not a tool.

You set the right test on the call: how much time does it save, what is that worth, and is it worth it.

Four-week trial
£1,500

A full month of the work at roughly half rate. You should not pay full price to find out whether it works.

Monthly retainer
£3,000 / month

Rolling, month to month. We only carry on if the trial has earned it.

You already tried to buy this as a person: a contractor recruiter at £150 to £200 a day, roughly £3,000 to £4,000 a month, plus you supplied the licence. He did not show up. This is that recruiter's output, automated where it can be and watched by a real eye, for less, with no managing and no no-shows.

Full 360 recruiter £8k to £12k / month Offshore sourcer £1.2k to £1.8k / month This £3k / month

Even on the hours alone, a conservative 8 to 10 hours a week back at £100 an hour is roughly £3,200 to £4,000 a month, so it covers itself on time, before the recruiter-grade output you are not paying a full salary for, and before the speed upside on exclusive mandates.

What you provide: your LinkedIn Recruiter seat and InMail credits, your role briefs, and quick feedback on shortlists.

The trial

Four weeks, your live roles, measured against where you start.

Week 1

Learn your way

Connect your Recruiter seat, study your history and searches with your consent, baseline your time, first searches built by hand.

Week 2

Live

Cadence on approved drafts, accept, reply and cold tracking, first human-qualified shortlists.

Week 3

Tune

Sharpen searches, fold in your LinkedIn applicants, a mid-trial check on time saved.

Week 4

Measure

Hours saved against your baseline, shortlist turnaround. Continue or stop. Your call.

The bar: at least 5 hours a week back, and a first vetted shortlist within 48 hours of brief. Miss it, and we say so.

Your move

Ready when you are.

No pressure, and nothing to lock in today. Tell me what you think with one click, and I will take it from there.

No commitment beyond the four-week trial. No lock-in, no auto-renewal.

What happens once you accept
1

A short call to walk it through on a live role of yours.

2

Simple terms and the trial invoice. Nothing heavy.

3

We connect your Recruiter seat and start the week-one work.

Not the right fit? Tell me straight. Honest feedback is always welcome.

Trisden MillsMentis Digital · trisden@mentisdigital.co.uk