We do the hard yards of new-business intelligence, reading the funding, the trials, the leadership moves across 60,000+ life-sciences companies, and hand you the in-market hiring managers worth approaching. You run the outreach you love, the way you have for forty years, and win the mandate.
We find the open doors. You walk through and win.Move the sliders. The fee band is real US life-sciences search data, retained search bills 25–33% of a leader's first-year pay, and life sciences sits at the top of that range. You keep 65%; Mentis's 35% only ever applies to fees you actually collect.
Illustrative, you control every input. The only thing we put in writing is the guarantee: 3 qualified, in-market opportunities inside 60 days, or your build fee back.
The pitch, the search, the judgement on who fits a board. The outreach you enjoy, the twelve touches, the calls that warm a door. Debunking the myth that only a global firm can place a life-sciences leader. The trust your name carries. None of this moves without you, and none of it should.
Scouring financials and news, working out which company has a pain point, tracking who is moving, reading the funding and trial signals that say a hire is coming, across 60,000+ companies you could never watch by hand. The groundwork that eats the week and does not need your years to do it.
In a market this tight, the firm already in the room when the budget unlocks wins the search.
This is not another tool that scrapes job boards and hands you a list to chase.
You get pitched those every week, and they save half an hour and find nothing you could not. We do not just send you signals to chase. We read them, qualify them, and hand you the hiring managers who are genuinely in-market: funded, growing, with a hire coming before the role is ever advertised. You make the approach, the way only you can. Prefer us to make the calls and book the meeting? That is the optional caller, and most weeks you will not want it.
You raised it on our call, and you were right to. What you would be working with is two things, and neither is a bot: an engine that reads your market, and a human who makes the approach. By default that human is you, the part you enjoy. Want it handled instead? Add our caller.
Two hours of your time builds a model of how you win. Then we go to work on it.
We map your ICP, director-level and above in life sciences, and stand up a live model across 60,000+ companies, far past the ~150 you could ever work by hand, so every name we surface is one worth your approach.
Funding rounds, trial milestones, board and leadership changes, the senior departures that cascade into a hire, across 60,000+ companies at once. We read the moves that come before a role is ever advertised, and hand them to you to knock first.
The qualified, in-market managers land with you, and you run the outreach you love under CNA's name. Want the calls made and the meeting booked for you? Add a dedicated caller and we handle it end to end.
Hiring managers who are genuinely in-market, funded, growing, a hire coming, with the context already attached. You approach, you pitch, you win the search.
We run the search function for James Chase Solutions, finding leaders for their US clients through complex, multi-step search and outreach, the same senior, hard-to-reach end of the market you work in. The result: over £200,000 in placements, from finding and reaching the people ordinary search misses. Our people do the recruiting; the system does the donkey work underneath.
If we don't surface at least three qualified, in-market opportunities in your first 60 days, your build fee comes back in full, and you keep the market model we built.
The first 60 days are covered by the build. A modest system & data cost only begins once the engine has proved out, then the real fee is on placements you collect.
Every approach goes out under CNA's name, in your voice, on your approval. Two years of branding stays intact and entirely yours.
You own every word that goes out. We hand you the qualified list and the context; the outreach is yours, in your voice, on your timing. Nothing carries your name that you did not send, and if you add a caller, nothing goes out without your say-so.
One build fee, guaranteed. After that, you pay only when you place.
Your market model, your ICP and the signal system, plus the first 60 days running live. Covered by the guarantee, and credited off your first placement.
The data APIs, platforms and live signal-tracking across your 60,000+ companies, the licences you would otherwise buy yourself. Begins only after the 60-day pilot has proved out.
Charged only on placements we open the door to, and only on fees you have collected. This is where the real money sits, for both of us.
Optional · your own dedicated caller: £2,000 / month. You told us you enjoy the twelve touches, so by default they stay yours. If you would ever rather we ran the outreach and booked the meetings for you, add a BDR dedicated to your campaign. Switch it on or off any time, and most weeks you will not need it.
The guarantee. If we don't surface at least three qualified, in-market hiring managers for you within 60 days, you get every penny of the build back and keep the market model. We keep the build fee only if we deliver and you choose not to proceed. We are backing our engine. We just ask you to back yourself to close.
A US life-sciences search bills roughly $50,000–$100,000+ (25–33% of a leader's first-year pay). You keep 65% of every one, so a single placement covers a year of the £1,500/mo system many times over, and your build fee comes off your first win. You are not paying to find out whether it works.
What you provide: two hours to build the model, the outreach you enjoy, and the judgement that wins the mandate.
Map your ICP, stand up the live model across your 60,000+, and agree the messaging that goes out under your name.
The engine starts surfacing qualified, in-market managers, and you begin the outreach you enjoy, before roles are ever advertised.
The managers you have warmed start saying yes, and the meetings land in your diary.
Three qualified opportunities delivered against the guarantee. Carry on, or your build fee back. Your call.
The bar: at least three qualified, in-market opportunities by day 60, each a decision-maker in your ICP with a live hiring signal. Miss it, and your build fee is returned in full.
Nothing to lock in, and the risk is ours. Tell me what you think with one click, and I will take it from there.
No retainer, no lock-in. The first 60 days are guaranteed; the system runs at cost only after that, and the real money is on placements.
Two hours to build the model of your market, together.
Simple terms and the build invoice, with the guarantee in writing.
We go live in your patch and the first opportunities start landing.
Not the right fit? Tell me straight. Honest feedback is always welcome.
Prepared 12 June 2026 · CNA Searches × Mentis Digital