01
Supply
Finding qualified talent is difficult.
Global teams face a deficit of 40M skilled professionals. Hiring locally costs 50%+ more than the offshore equivalent — but only if you can find people you trust.
Hire high-performing Nigerian professionals across the functions your business needs — verified, matched and managed by Mentord.
Identity·
Experience·
Skills·
Interview·
Deployment
The Problem
02
Trust
Remote hiring carries identity risk.
Identity, experience and candidate-integrity risks are real. Most companies have no reliable way to confirm who they hired — or who actually shows up to do the work.
03
Operations
Hiring is only the beginning.
Contracts, payroll, onboarding and performance create an operational tail that founders end up stitching together across five different vendors.
The Solution
Verify. Hire. Manage.
VerifyHireManage
01
Verify
Mentord Verified™ reduces candidate fraud and hiring risk.
Identity, experience, skills and interview continuity are confirmed before anyone reaches your shortlist.
- Government ID + face match
- Experience cross-checks
- Interview continuity
02
Hire
We source and match Nigerian professionals to your requirements.
Role-specific assessment, take-home work and situational interviews narrow the field to the strongest matches only.
- Role-specific assessment
- Situational interview
- Curated shortlist
03
Manage
We own contracts, payroll, onboarding and performance.
Mentord stays in the engagement for its full life — weekly check-ins, structured feedback, upskilling and intervention where needed.
- Contracts & payroll
- Performance reviews
- Targeted upskilling
The Differentiator
Mentord Verified™ is a technology-enabled verification layer inside our recruitment workflow. It ties one confirmed identity to every stage — so the candidate who applies is the candidate who is assessed, interviewed and deployed.
Verification reduces hiring risk — we don't claim it makes hiring fraud-proof.
01
Identity
PENDINGGovernment ID + face verification
A government-issued ID is matched against a live face capture, establishing the identity every later stage is tied back to.
02
Experience
PENDINGCV, LinkedIn & history cross-checked
Employment history, credentials and public profiles are cross-referenced for consistency with what the candidate has claimed.
03
Skills
PENDINGAssessment tied to verified identity
Role-specific assessment and take-home work are executed under the verified identity — not by an unnamed proxy.
04
Interview
PENDINGSame person, confirmed at client interview
The person who appears at your interview is confirmed to be the same person who was assessed.
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Deployment
PENDINGFinal check before day one
A final confirmation runs before the first day, closing the gap between offer accepted and work begun.
Talent
AI-native is a quality standard across every category — not a restriction to technical roles.
AI-Native
Mentord prioritises professionals who already use AI tools and agents to improve productivity, decision-making and execution — an executive assistant who automates her own reporting, a support lead who builds his own deflection workflows.
We assess for it in every category. It is a required standard, not an optional extra reserved for engineers.
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Agents✦Automation✦Prompt tooling✦Copilots✦Workflow design✦Retrieval✦Evaluation✦Integrations✦Data hygiene✦Model routing✦
Professionals deployed
Day replacement guarantee
Stage verification chain
Talent categories covered
Days
Placement Guarantee
If a placement doesn't meet expectations, we replace the talent.
Subject to the relevant agreement
Pricing
Direct Hire
Hire the talent directly.
20%
of first-year compensation
- Sourcing
- Mentord Verified™
- Assessment & shortlisting
- Client interviews
- Replacement support
Recommended
Managed Talent
Your talent. Our management.
Custom
monthly pricing — based on role, seniority, compensation and service requirements
- Everything in Direct Hire
- Contracts & payroll
- Onboarding
- Performance management
- Upskilling & development
- Replacement support
Managed Teams
Build your remote team.
Custom
team pricing — based on team size, roles, seniority and service requirements
- Multi-role sourcing & verification
- Payroll across the team
- Performance management
- Dedicated support
- Team reporting
Managed Talent and Managed Teams are quoted per engagement, based on role, seniority, talent compensation and service requirements.
Meet the Founder
Founder & CEO
Nigeria has the talent. What it has lacked is infrastructure that lets a company abroad trust who they're hiring. That's what we're building.
- Education
- LSE & Imperial Business School alumni
- Consulting
- Amazon, The Foundation
- Operating
- Project management & multiple startups
- Track record
- Second-time founder
Verify · Hire · Manage
Verified AI-Native Nigerian Talent. Built for Global Teams.