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    "id": "arjun-m",
    "slot": "ag-001",
    "firstName": "Arjun",
    "lastInitial": "M",
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    "headline": "B2B sales for IT, business services and food firms",
    "town": "Bolton",
    "region": "north-west",
    "coverage": [
      "west-midlands",
      "north-west",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "it-software",
      "food-drink"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 11,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "A three-year support contract for a Warrington haulier was my first big deal in outside sales, after starting on the phones at a Manchester office supplies firm. That's eleven years in B2B sales now, the last four working for myself out of Bolton.",
      "My week is split between the phone and the car. I book my own appointments, then go and see owners and operations managers across the North West, the West Midlands and Wales. I also sell into food producers and wholesalers, where a lot of deals still get done over a brew in the office.",
      "I represent two products at the moment and can take on a third. Ideally something a business pays for every month, like software or a service contract, that fits the firms I already visit."
    ],
    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 4,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 29
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  {
    "id": "grace-o",
    "slot": "ag-002",
    "firstName": "Grace",
    "lastInitial": "O",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-002.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-002.jpg",
    "headline": "Energy sales to homes and small businesses",
    "town": "Salford",
    "region": "north-west",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "energy"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "field"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 27,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Open to a small retainer while ramping up",
    "bio": [
      "My first sales job was knocking doors for a gas and electricity supplier in 1999, and I've stayed in energy ever since: 27 years of meters, tariffs and boilers and, lately, solar panels and batteries.",
      "I work doorsteps, phones and kitchen tables. With homeowners I'm patient and clear about payback, because a solar quote is a big number to hear. With small businesses I go in person, look at the bills and talk to whoever signs them off. I'll travel anywhere in the UK for the right product.",
      "Alongside a heat pump installer I already represent, I can take on one more product. New lines take a few weeks to get going on the doors, so a small retainer for the first couple of months would let me put the hours in."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold 140 home solar and battery installs in 2024 for a Lancashire installer"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 0,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 22
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  {
    "id": "alasdair-c",
    "slot": "ag-003",
    "firstName": "Alasdair",
    "lastInitial": "C",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-003.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-003.jpg",
    "headline": "Facilities and logistics contracts for UK businesses",
    "town": "Stirling",
    "region": "scotland",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "facilities",
      "logistics"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 27,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Before sales I ran warehouses, first for a whisky bottler in Grangemouth, then a parcel depot in Livingston. I moved to the commercial side at 38 and have spent 27 years since selling cleaning, security, pallet storage and transport contracts to firms that need them to just work.",
      "Most deals start with an email or a LinkedIn message to an operations or site manager, then a call, then a walk round the site. I price with the buyer, not at them. I'll cover anywhere in the UK, though I'm quickest across the central belt.",
      "Send me cleaning, security or storage contracts that bill monthly. I'd prefer recurring commission on the monthly value rather than a single payment at signature, and I can start on new products now."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Won a five-year cleaning and security contract across 14 distribution sites",
      "Grew a Scottish pallet network's membership from 22 to 41 hauliers",
      "Kept 94% of my accounts at renewal over the last six years"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 13,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 1
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  {
    "id": "marcia-t",
    "slot": "ag-004",
    "firstName": "Marcia",
    "lastInitial": "T",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-004.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-004.jpg",
    "headline": "SaaS closer for UK small and mid-sized firms",
    "town": "Wolverhampton",
    "region": "west-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 19,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "The first licence I sold was an accounts package to a Walsall accountancy practice, from the telesales desk of a Birmingham reseller. That was nineteen years ago. I worked up to regional account manager and went self-employed in 2019.",
      "I work from home in Wolverhampton and cover the whole UK. First calls happen on the phone, and I travel to meet the buyer when the deal is worth it, usually a finance director or practice manager. A lot of my work now comes through referrals from accountants and IT support firms I've looked after for years.",
      "Subscription software is what I want next, paid on recurring commission. I stay close to customers after the sale and help with renewals and upgrades, so it makes sense for both of us."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold £620k of annual subscriptions for a practice management platform in 2024",
      "Built a referral network of 18 IT support firms across the Midlands",
      "Top of 12 account managers at my last employer three years running"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 29,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 13
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  {
    "id": "lucas-f",
    "slot": "ag-005",
    "firstName": "Lucas",
    "lastInitial": "F",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-005.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-005.jpg",
    "headline": "B2B telesales for facilities and property services",
    "town": "Swindon",
    "region": "south-west",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "facilities",
      "property"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 3,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Eight months in a row over target at a Bristol commercial cleaning company gave me the nerve to go self-employed last year. I'd joined them three years ago as a trainee on the phones, and I've been selling ever since.",
      "Everything I do is by phone and video, which means I can cover the whole UK from Swindon. I book discovery calls with facilities managers, property managers and landlords, walk them through the offer on screen, and send a clear quote the same day. My mum is from Valencia, so Spanish-speaking clients are no problem.",
      "With two clients on the go, I can fit in one more. A property or facilities service with a short sales cycle would suit me best while I build up a pipeline of my own."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Booked 320 qualified appointments for a commercial cleaning firm in 12 months",
      "Signed 45 block management clients for a property maintenance company over video"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Spanish"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 8
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  {
    "id": "ciara-d",
    "slot": "ag-006",
    "firstName": "Ciara",
    "lastInitial": "D",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-006.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-006.jpg",
    "headline": "Software and services for NI builders and professional firms",
    "town": "Lisburn",
    "region": "northern-ireland",
    "coverage": [
      "northern-ireland"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "it-software",
      "construction"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 14,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "A Belfast law firm moving off paper files gave me my biggest early deal: document management for 60 fee earners. That was a few years after my graduate job selling print and managed IT services. In fourteen years I've also sold estimating software to builders and payroll services to accountants, the last five self-employed.",
      "Cold calling isn't for me. I find buyers through LinkedIn and email, then run the whole sale over video: demo, proposal and negotiation. I cover Northern Ireland, where most of my network already knows my name.",
      "I'm after software or services for contractors and professional firms in Northern Ireland. I need a demo environment I can run on my own and a product team that answers questions within a day, because my buyers ask detailed ones."
    ],
    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 13,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 22
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  {
    "id": "malcolm-d",
    "slot": "ag-007",
    "firstName": "Malcolm",
    "lastInitial": "D",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-007.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-007.jpg",
    "headline": "Construction supplies to London contractors",
    "town": "Romford",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "construction"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 30,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "I left school at 16 to work in a builders' merchant's yard in Ilford and moved onto the sales desk in my early thirties. That's 30 years of selling timber, drylining, fixings and hire equipment to contractors.",
      "These days I work by phone and email. I know the buyers at most of the mid-sized contractors in London and the East of England, and they know I'll come back with a price the same afternoon. My emails are short, with photos and spec sheets attached, and I chase by phone.",
      "Send me anything a site buyer orders again and again: fixings, PPE, scaffold, welfare units, plant. I don't do site visits any more, so it needs to be something that sells without one."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Opened 60 new trade accounts for a drylining distributor in 18 months",
      "Sold £2.1m of welfare unit hire to London and Essex contractors between 2021 and 2024"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 7
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  {
    "id": "kwame-a",
    "slot": "ag-008",
    "firstName": "Kwame",
    "lastInitial": "A",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-008.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
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    "headline": "Facilities, fit-out and food supply for kitchens and sites",
    "town": "Chatham",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "south-east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "facilities",
      "construction",
      "food-drink"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 7,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "My route into sales was hospitality. I managed a busy hotel restaurant in Brighton, then took a job selling kitchen deep cleans to restaurants and caterers. That was seven years ago, and since then I've sold commercial cleaning, fit-out work and food supplies across Kent, Sussex and Surrey.",
      "I sell in person and over video. I'll turn up at a kitchen at 3pm between services, or book a video call with a site manager who can't get away. Most of my buyers are owners, head chefs and facilities managers at firms with fewer than 100 staff.",
      "What I'd like to add is a product I can take to the kitchens and sites I already visit in the South East. It should be well made, with a short sales cycle and someone who can turn quotes around quickly."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Signed 38 restaurants to a monthly kitchen deep-clean contract in my first year",
      "Won a £180k shopfitting package for a Kent garden centre group"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 12,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 5
  },
  {
    "id": "alison-f",
    "slot": "ag-009",
    "firstName": "Alison",
    "lastInitial": "F",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-009.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-009.jpg",
    "headline": "IT and facilities services for estates managers",
    "town": "Guildford",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "south-east",
      "south-west",
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software",
      "facilities"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 29,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Most of my 29 years in sales have been spent where buildings meet technology. I started out selling access control and helpdesk software to universities and hospitals, then moved into facilities management contracts for a national provider before going independent.",
      "My buyers are estates directors and facilities managers at schools, trusts, business parks and hospitals. I do discovery by phone and demos by video, and I go on site for surveys and final meetings anywhere in the South East, the South West and the East of England. Deals often take six to nine months, and I'm fine with that.",
      "I'll take one more product, as long as I can put it in front of the estates teams I already know: CAFM software, room booking systems or a specialist maintenance service."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Closed a £1.2m, five-year CAFM software deal with a university in the South West"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 12,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 19
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  {
    "id": "hannah-l",
    "slot": "ag-010",
    "firstName": "Hannah",
    "lastInitial": "L",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-010.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-010.jpg",
    "headline": "Advertising and marketing services for UK brands",
    "town": "Kingston upon Thames",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "marketing"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 13,
    "availability": "closed",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Madrid is where I learned to pitch: three years selling radio and magazine advertising for a Spanish media group, part of eight years in media sales before I set up on my own. That's 13 years of selling marketing in total, mostly to brand managers and agency heads.",
      "My business comes mainly from referrals. I meet people in person, usually over coffee or at their office, and follow up by phone. I cover the whole UK, and a fair number of my clients are Spanish and Latin American brands that want to advertise here, so I often pitch in Spanish.",
      "Not taking new work until February 2027, as a large print and events campaign has me committed until the end of the year. After that, get in touch if you have a marketing service for mid-sized brands."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold £900k of sponsorship and print advertising for a food magazine over three years"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Spanish"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 10,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 11
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  {
    "id": "ellie-w",
    "slot": "ag-011",
    "firstName": "Ellie",
    "lastInitial": "W",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-011.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-011.jpg",
    "headline": "Property services sales to letting agents",
    "town": "Derby",
    "region": "east-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "east",
      "east-midlands",
      "west-midlands",
      "yorkshire"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "property"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 1,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "After a property degree, I spent a year selling inventory and compliance services to letting agents for a Derby firm. It's only one year in sales, but I learned fast, and I understand how a lettings branch runs day to day.",
      "I book video calls with branch managers and portfolio landlords, then visit in person to close. From Derby I can reach a branch in Nottingham, Leicester or Sheffield within the hour, and I go further, to Birmingham, Leeds or Peterborough, when a deal needs it.",
      "Now I'm after my first self-employed products: anything a letting agent, block manager or developer buys regularly. Two days of product training at the start would help, and I can give a new client four or five days a week."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Signed 22 letting agencies to an inventory service in my first nine months"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 30
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    "id": "clive-r",
    "slot": "ag-012",
    "firstName": "Clive",
    "lastInitial": "R",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-012.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-012.jpg",
    "headline": "Software for builders, colleges and training providers",
    "town": "Leicester",
    "region": "east-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "east",
      "east-midlands",
      "yorkshire"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software",
      "construction",
      "education"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 35,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "My first sale was an estimating package on floppy disks to a builder in Loughborough, and I spent ten years selling those. After that came training and learner records software for colleges. That's 35 years in sales, self-employed since 2010.",
      "Cold calling is rare for me now. Most new work comes through referrals from people I've sold to over the years, and I run discovery on the phone and demos on video. My patch is the East Midlands, the East of England and Yorkshire and the Humber, where I know a lot of the contractors and the colleges.",
      "I want to keep selling to construction firms, colleges and training providers, and I'm not interested in quick-flip products. Most college software runs on three-year licences, and that's the kind of sale I know."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold learner management software to 16 further education colleges across the East Midlands and Yorkshire",
      "Introduced 40 contractors to a site safety app through referrals alone in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 10,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 23
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    "id": "imran-s",
    "slot": "ag-013",
    "firstName": "Imran",
    "lastInitial": "S",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-013.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-013.jpg",
    "headline": "Door-to-door energy sales to homeowners",
    "town": "Paisley",
    "region": "scotland",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "energy"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "field"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 4,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "At 19 I took a summer job knocking doors for a loft insulation scheme in Paisley and never stopped. Four years on, I've sold insulation, solar panels and heat pump surveys on doorsteps from Aberdeen to Plymouth.",
      "Door to door is all I do. I work in pairs or small teams, travel anywhere in the UK for a campaign, and I'm straight with people about costs and grants. I speak Urdu, which helps a lot on some streets in Glasgow and Bradford.",
      "I'll take one more energy product, from a firm that lets me book the survey before I leave the doorstep, because a customer who waits three weeks for a surveyor usually cancels."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Signed up 610 households for free cavity wall insulation surveys in 2023",
      "Top seller of 25 on a Scottish solar door-to-door campaign two years running"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Urdu"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 0,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 17
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    "id": "rosa-m",
    "slot": "ag-014",
    "firstName": "Rosa",
    "lastInitial": "M",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-014.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-014.jpg",
    "headline": "Food and property sales to homes and small firms",
    "town": "Stockport",
    "region": "north-west",
    "coverage": [
      "yorkshire",
      "north-west",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "food-drink",
      "property"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "field",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 35,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Selling came early: I grew up above my parents' Italian deli in Bradford. Officially it's 35 years, starting with a decade repping for a wine importer, then estate agency, then new-build sales for housebuilders across the north.",
      "My channels are video, email and social media, plus door to door when a campaign calls for it. I sell wine and deli boxes to households and restaurants, and I help developers and letting agents find buyers and tenants. I cover the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and Wales.",
      "Bring me a local food or drink brand looking for its first trade and home customers, or a developer with a small scheme to sell off-plan in the North West."
    ],
    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 0,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 15
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    "id": "andreas-k",
    "slot": "ag-015",
    "firstName": "Andreas",
    "lastInitial": "K",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-015.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-015.jpg",
    "headline": "EPoS and retail software for independent shops",
    "town": "Lincoln",
    "region": "east-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "east",
      "east-midlands",
      "yorkshire"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software",
      "retail"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 25,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Prefers an exclusive territory",
    "bio": [
      "Retail runs in the family: my dad had a newsagent in Lincoln. After a spell behind his counter I sold till systems to independent shops, and I've now spent 25 years in retail technology sales, the last 12 as a freelancer.",
      "Everything happens by phone, video and email. I prospect on LinkedIn and in trade groups, run demos over video and close most deals in two or three calls. My patch runs from Norfolk up to Hull, and I sell across it without leaving Lincoln.",
      "I can take on one more product. Because I put real time into building a patch, I'd want an exclusive territory across my regions, so I'm not up against another agent for the same shop owner."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Installed EPoS systems in 230 independent shops and garden centres",
      "Sold 70 retail reporting subscriptions to farm shops in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 13
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  {
    "id": "tiana-b",
    "slot": "ag-016",
    "firstName": "Tiana",
    "lastInitial": "B",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-016.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-016.jpg",
    "headline": "Telesales for telecoms, marketing and business services",
    "town": "Liverpool",
    "region": "north-west",
    "coverage": [
      "north-west"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "telecoms",
      "marketing"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 1,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "A year ago I was working in a phone shop on Bold Street. A customer who ran a digital agency offered me a job booking meetings for them, so I've been in B2B sales for a year now, and self-employed since June.",
      "I'm quick on the phone and I don't mind hearing no. I call small business owners across the North West, qualify them on budget and timing, and either close on a video call or hand a warm lead to the client.",
      "I sell best what a small business can buy on one call: business broadband, websites, marketing packages, bookkeeping. I'd take good training over a higher rate."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Booked 190 qualified meetings for a Liverpool digital agency in nine months",
      "Sold 34 business broadband and phone packages in my first three months self-employed"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 5
  },
  {
    "id": "gethin-l",
    "slot": "ag-017",
    "firstName": "Gethin",
    "lastInitial": "L",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-017.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-017.jpg",
    "headline": "Business services for clinics and care providers",
    "town": "Wrexham",
    "region": "wales",
    "coverage": [
      "west-midlands",
      "north-west",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "health"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 15,
    "availability": "closed",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Happy with one-off commission",
    "bio": [
      "A GP surgery in Mold that was three doctors short gave me my first sale at 27: locum cover for a winter. I'd trained as a pharmacy technician, and in the fifteen years since I've sold staffing, compliance training and patient transport services to practices, care homes and private clinics.",
      "Most of my work comes through referrals from practice managers I've known for years. I meet people in person, follow up by phone, and cover Wales, the North West and the West Midlands. I'm a Welsh speaker, which matters to a lot of practices in Gwynedd and Anglesey.",
      "Currently not taking new work until March 2027. When I'm back, one-off commission per signed contract is fine by me, as long as it's paid promptly."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Signed 85 GP practices in Wales to a compliance training service",
      "Placed a patient transport contract with a care group of 14 homes",
      "Helped a locum agency win a place on an NHS Wales staffing framework"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Welsh"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 3
  },
  {
    "id": "francesca-b",
    "slot": "ag-018",
    "firstName": "Francesca",
    "lastInitial": "B",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-018.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-018.jpg",
    "headline": "Business finance and services for SME owners",
    "town": "Sheffield",
    "region": "yorkshire",
    "coverage": [
      "east-midlands",
      "yorkshire"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "finance"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 7,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "I moved from Turin to Sheffield for university and stayed. I've been in sales for seven years, first at an invoice finance broker, then at a payroll bureau, and now on my own.",
      "I like to meet owners face to face, whether that's in a workshop in Rotherham or an office in Nottingham, then keep things moving by phone. I cover Yorkshire and the Humber and the East Midlands, and I'm useful for Italian-owned businesses as I speak the language.",
      "I'll take payroll, invoice finance, insurance or business banking for small and mid-sized firms. I want a client who trains me on the product before I sell it and lets me bring in an underwriter or specialist when a deal gets technical."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Arranged £8m of invoice finance facilities for South Yorkshire manufacturers",
      "Signed 60 new payroll clients for a Leeds bureau in two years",
      "Opened 25 business insurance accounts in the East Midlands in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Italian"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 0,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 17
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  {
    "id": "laura-j",
    "slot": "ag-019",
    "firstName": "Laura",
    "lastInitial": "J",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-019.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-019.jpg",
    "headline": "Telecoms and training sales to schools and colleges",
    "town": "Worcester",
    "region": "west-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "telecoms",
      "education"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 5,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Prefers an exclusive territory",
    "bio": [
      "Six years teaching business studies at a secondary school came before sales. I left to sell phone systems and Wi-Fi to schools, and I've been selling for five years now.",
      "I know how schools buy: slowly, with a bursar, a head and sometimes a trust board. I get the first conversation on the phone, demo on video, and go in person for the site survey or the governors' meeting. I cover the whole UK.",
      "Telecoms, connectivity or training products for schools and colleges are my focus. School sales take time, so I'd want an exclusive territory, ideally the Midlands, so the relationships I build stay mine."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Moved 48 schools in one academy trust onto a new phone and Wi-Fi contract"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 9,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 25
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  {
    "id": "owain-t",
    "slot": "ag-020",
    "firstName": "Owain",
    "lastInitial": "T",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-020.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-020.jpg",
    "headline": "Food and drink introductions to trade buyers",
    "town": "Chester",
    "region": "north-west",
    "coverage": [
      "yorkshire",
      "north-west",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "food-drink"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 30,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Happy with one-off commission",
    "bio": [
      "I grew up on a dairy farm on Anglesey and have spent 30 years selling food and drink: cheese first, then craft beer and spirits, then chilled ready meals for a national supplier.",
      "These days I work almost entirely on introductions. I know the buyers at regional wholesalers, farm shops, pub groups and contract caterers across the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and Wales, and I put the right producers in front of them, usually by taking the producer along to the first meeting.",
      "Only one more producer, then I'm full. One-off commission on the first order or first year's listing suits me, paid once the buyer has paid."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Introduced a Welsh cheese maker to a wholesaler, now worth £400k a year to them"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Welsh"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 7,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 2
  },
  {
    "id": "mei-w",
    "slot": "ag-021",
    "firstName": "Mei",
    "lastInitial": "W",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-021.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-021.jpg",
    "headline": "Retail product sales to shops and shoppers",
    "town": "Croydon",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "south-east",
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "retail"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 23,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "My family ran a Chinese supermarket in Croydon, so I learned retail at the till. I've now had 23 years in sales: consumer electronics on the shop floor, then account management placing products into independent stores, and self-employed since 2015.",
      "I sell in person and over the phone, to shop owners and, at pop-ups and markets, straight to shoppers. I cover London, the South East and the East of England. Cantonese helps with Chinese-owned wholesalers and supermarkets, which are a good route for many consumer brands.",
      "Retail products with repeat orders are what I'm after, on recurring commission. I stay on top of reorders and displays long after the first sale, and I'd like to be paid for that."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Got a skincare brand into 140 independent pharmacies and beauty shops",
      "Opened 35 Chinese supermarket accounts for a snack brand across London",
      "Sold £75k of kitchenware at weekend pop-ups in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Cantonese"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 8
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  {
    "id": "callum-r",
    "slot": "ag-022",
    "firstName": "Callum",
    "lastInitial": "R",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-022.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-022.jpg",
    "headline": "B2B sales for building and business services",
    "town": "Bromley",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "south-east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "construction"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 5,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "I spent my twenties as an electrician until a knee injury took me off the tools. That was five years ago. I moved into selling electrical testing and compliance services to landlords and offices, and found I liked it more than the tools.",
      "Having worked on site helps. I can talk to a contracts manager about fire door surveys or EICRs without reading from a script. I use the phone to open, video for the proposal, and meet in person when it's a bigger job. I cover London and the South East.",
      "Send me compliance, maintenance or construction services for landlords, managing agents and facilities teams. I need pricing clear enough to quote on the first call, as a contracts manager with a failed fire door survey wants a number that day."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold £340k of electrical testing contracts to London managing agents in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 1,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 6
  },
  {
    "id": "beatriz-c",
    "slot": "ag-023",
    "firstName": "Beatriz",
    "lastInitial": "C",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-023.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-023.jpg",
    "headline": "Energy, industrial and medical kit for South West firms",
    "town": "Taunton",
    "region": "south-west",
    "coverage": [
      "south-west"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "energy",
      "manufacturing",
      "health"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 10,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Portuguese by birth, Somerset by marriage. I've been in B2B sales for ten years, starting with industrial compressors, then commercial solar, and more recently medical equipment for private clinics.",
      "My business runs on introductions. I know plant managers, estates people and clinic owners across the South West, and I introduce them to suppliers who can solve a problem they've already told me about. I visit a supplier's site before I put them in front of anyone.",
      "I open the door and hand over, so I need energy, manufacturing or health products with a sales team that can take a meeting within the week. I'm also useful to Portuguese and Brazilian manufacturers looking for UK distributors."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Introduced a commercial solar installer to 12 factories, leading to 1.8MW of installs",
      "Connected a Portuguese cork supplier with three UK flooring manufacturers",
      "Placed a digital X-ray system with a group of five private dental clinics"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Portuguese"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 1,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 7
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  {
    "id": "paolo-r",
    "slot": "ag-024",
    "firstName": "Paolo",
    "lastInitial": "R",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-024.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-024.jpg",
    "headline": "Software and energy services for local businesses",
    "town": "Peterborough",
    "region": "east",
    "coverage": [
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software",
      "energy"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "digital",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 23,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Cambridge is where I got into sales, at 20, on the phones for an accounting software reseller. Twenty-three years later I sell software and energy services: IT systems to small firms, and energy buying and monitoring to the same kind of businesses.",
      "Most of my week is phone and email. I prospect on LinkedIn, send short emails with a clear reason to talk, and follow up by phone. A good share of new business comes from referrals from existing clients. I stay within the East of England, where I know the business parks and their owners.",
      "I'll take software or energy products on monthly or annual contracts, paid on recurring commission. Energy contracts come up for renewal every one to three years, so the commission should run as long as the contract does."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Moved 150 small businesses onto a fixed-price energy contract",
      "Sold £480k of annual recurring revenue for a cloud accounting partner in 2024"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 1,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 5
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  {
    "id": "naomi-f",
    "slot": "ag-025",
    "firstName": "Naomi",
    "lastInitial": "F",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-025.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-025.jpg",
    "headline": "Marketing and business services for manufacturers",
    "town": "Bath",
    "region": "south-west",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "marketing",
      "manufacturing"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 6,
    "availability": "closed",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Six years ago I was a marketing coordinator at a Bristol packaging manufacturer. Our agency reps never quite understood the factory side, so I started selling agency work to other manufacturers myself.",
      "I sell by phone and through referrals from trade bodies, accountants and past clients. My buyers are marketing managers and managing directors at manufacturers with 20 to 250 staff, anywhere in the UK. Most of my clients are in the Midlands and the North, and a Burnley packaging firm has renewed through me for four years without us ever meeting in person.",
      "Two clients are keeping me fully busy, so I'm not taking new work until January 2027. After that I'd like one retained marketing or business services product with recurring commission."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Signed 22 manufacturers to a monthly SEO and content retainer for a Bath agency",
      "Won a £90k trade show and brochure contract with an engineering firm"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 15
  },
  {
    "id": "morag-k",
    "slot": "ag-026",
    "firstName": "Morag",
    "lastInitial": "K",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-026.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-026.jpg",
    "headline": "Solar, insulation and heat pumps for homeowners",
    "town": "Dundee",
    "region": "scotland",
    "coverage": [
      "north-east",
      "scotland",
      "northern-ireland"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "energy"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "in-person",
      "field",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 32,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Open to a small retainer while ramping up",
    "bio": [
      "Double glazing, door to door, Dundee, 1994: that's where I started. Thirty-two years on I'm still on doorsteps, but now it's solar, batteries, insulation and heat pumps, and the customers ask much better questions.",
      "I sell door to door, in homes by appointment, and through referrals from past customers, who are my best source. I cover Scotland, the North East and Northern Ireland. I work out the payback on each customer's own bills, and I walk away from a house that doesn't suit a system.",
      "Room for one more installer. Every new product takes a few weeks to learn, so I'd ask for a small retainer until I'm booking ten surveys a month for you, then commission only."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold 380 solar and battery systems in Scotland over eight years",
      "Kept my cancellation rate under 4% on every home energy campaign I've worked",
      "Trained 15 new door-to-door canvassers for a Dundee insulation firm"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 12,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 29
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  {
    "id": "stuart-h",
    "slot": "ag-027",
    "firstName": "Stuart",
    "lastInitial": "H",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-027.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-027.jpg",
    "headline": "Consumer telesales for energy, finance and retail",
    "town": "Portsmouth",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "energy",
      "finance",
      "retail"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 22,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Contact centres are where I learned to sell. That's 22 years, from a Portsmouth energy supplier's outbound team to team leader at an insurance broker, and self-employed since 2018.",
      "I sell to consumers by phone and video, anywhere in the UK. That means warm leads, compliant scripts and reading back the key terms before anyone agrees, whether it's a boiler plan, life cover or a new mattress on finance. I'm used to call recording, FCA rules and audits.",
      "Consumer products with good lead flow are what I want. I don't cold call from lists, and I won't sell anything with hidden charges, but give me warm enquiries and clear terms and I'll call each one within the hour."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Converted 31% of warm leads to sales for a home insurance broker over three years"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 6,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 19
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  {
    "id": "abena-k",
    "slot": "ag-028",
    "firstName": "Abena",
    "lastInitial": "K",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-028.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-028.jpg",
    "headline": "Wellbeing products and memberships for consumers",
    "town": "Milton Keynes",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "south-east",
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "health"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 3,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Milton Keynes gym members were my first customers. After two years as a personal trainer there, I moved onto the chain's sales desk three years ago, and since then I've sold physio and health plans direct to the public.",
      "I sell by phone and through referrals. Most of my clients come from people I've already helped, often a partner or a friend from the same gym. I cover London, the South East and the East of England, and I follow up once by phone and once by text, then leave it.",
      "Right now I'm working on one product, with room for a second. It should be health-related and something I believe in, like private physio packages, a wellbeing app, or hearing or eye care plans."
    ],
    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 13,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 4
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  {
    "id": "catrin-h",
    "slot": "ag-029",
    "firstName": "Catrin",
    "lastInitial": "H",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-029.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-029.jpg",
    "headline": "Energy and finance sales to homes and businesses",
    "town": "Bridgend",
    "region": "wales",
    "coverage": [
      "south-west",
      "west-midlands",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "energy",
      "finance"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 15,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Mortgages first, then solar. I spent seven years as a mortgage and protection adviser before moving into renewable energy sales, and I've now been selling for 15 years in total.",
      "Having both backgrounds means I can explain the panels and the finance in one visit. I meet homeowners and business owners in person, handle follow-up by phone and email, and find a lot of leads in Facebook groups and on LinkedIn. My patch is Wales, the South West and the West Midlands.",
      "I'll take solar with finance, green mortgages, or asset finance for business installs, for households and small firms. I need a client who turns a quote round within two days, because a homeowner's interest cools fast."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold £2.4m of commercial solar with asset finance to farms in South Wales",
      "Arranged £40m of mortgages over seven years as an adviser",
      "Generated 900 homeowner enquiries from local Facebook groups in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 10,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 18
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    "id": "anita-g",
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    "firstName": "Anita",
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    "headline": "Telesales for construction and business services",
    "town": "Gloucester",
    "region": "south-west",
    "coverage": [
      "south-east",
      "south-west",
      "west-midlands"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "construction"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone"
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    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 28,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "The phone has been my office for 28 years. I began in a Gloucester builders' merchant's sales office, moved to a scaffolding firm, and later sold print and payroll services to small businesses.",
      "Phone is my only channel, and I'm comfortable with long calls and technical questions. My buyers are contractors, surveyors and small business owners across the South West, the South East and the West Midlands. I keep careful notes and call back when I say I will.",
      "Give me a product that contractors or office managers need, a clear price list and a named person for technical questions, and I'll get you appointments or orders."
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    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 1,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 16
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    "id": "joanne-p",
    "slot": "ag-031",
    "firstName": "Joanne",
    "lastInitial": "P",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-031.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-031.jpg",
    "headline": "Facilities and retail supplies for multi-site firms",
    "town": "Basingstoke",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "facilities",
      "retail"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 22,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Cleaning chemicals, washroom contracts, shop fittings, till rolls: over 22 years I've sold most of what keeps a shop or an office running. I started at a janitorial supplier in Reading and have been independent since 2016.",
      "My buyers run estates, stores or procurement at multi-site businesses. I open by phone, meet in person to walk the site, and get a lot of new work through referrals from store and facilities managers who've moved jobs and call me in. I'll travel anywhere in the UK.",
      "My buyers are chains, franchises and multi-site operators, so I'll only take facilities or retail products that can roll out across their sites. I'm used to long tenders and short, practical trials, and I like to know a client can deliver nationally before I sell it."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Won a washroom services contract covering 210 stores of a UK convenience chain",
      "Sold point-of-sale displays to 48 garden centres in a single season",
      "Took a cleaning chemicals supplier from 3 to 19 multi-site customers in four years"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 28
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  {
    "id": "conor-h",
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    "firstName": "Conor",
    "lastInitial": "H",
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    "headline": "Freight sales across Northern Ireland, Ireland and Scotland",
    "town": "Newry",
    "region": "northern-ireland",
    "coverage": [
      "scotland",
      "northern-ireland",
      "ireland"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "logistics"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 21,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Open to a small retainer while ramping up",
    "bio": [
      "Newry sits on the border, and so does most of my career: 21 years selling haulage, groupage and warehousing to firms moving goods between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.",
      "I sell on the phone and in person, usually to transport managers and owners of food, drink and building products firms. I cover Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland, and I know the ferry routes, the customs paperwork and the pinch points since Brexit.",
      "A new logistics product would be welcome. Covering both sides of the Irish Sea means ferry crossings and a lot of diesel, so I'd ask for a small retainer to cover those costs, with commission on the freight I bring in."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Brought £1.5m a year of groupage freight to a Belfast haulier",
      "Signed 30 Irish shippers to a Cairnryan trailer service in 2024"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 11,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 14
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  {
    "id": "kirsty-d",
    "slot": "ag-033",
    "firstName": "Kirsty",
    "lastInitial": "D",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-033.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-033.jpg",
    "headline": "Online health and wellbeing sales to consumers",
    "town": "Harrow",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "health"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "digital",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 20,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "I qualified as a nutritionist in my twenties and discovered I was better at selling the programmes than writing them. Twenty years later I've sold supplements, online fitness memberships and private health checks direct to the public.",
      "I sell on video, email and social media. Most customers come through referrals from past clients or from small online communities I've run for years, and I do a 20-minute video call with everyone before they buy. I sell anywhere in the UK.",
      "I'll sell health products that stand up to scrutiny: health checks, sleep or menopause support, physio or coaching packages. I read the evidence behind every claim before I agree to sell something."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold 1,300 annual health check memberships online in 2024"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 0,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 16
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  {
    "id": "douglas-f",
    "slot": "ag-034",
    "firstName": "Douglas",
    "lastInitial": "F",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-034.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-034.jpg",
    "headline": "Industrial and construction products for contractors",
    "town": "Perth",
    "region": "scotland",
    "coverage": [
      "north-east",
      "scotland"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "construction",
      "manufacturing"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "in-person",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 40,
    "availability": "closed",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "At 22 I started as a rep for a steel stockholder in Motherwell. Forty years on, I've sold steel, fasteners, roofing and industrial pumps to contractors and factories from the Borders to Shetland, and across the North East of England.",
      "I meet customers in person where it counts and do the rest by video and email. Engineers and buyers in construction and manufacturing want drawings and data sheets, so I send them with every quote and answer technical questions the same day. From Perth I cover Scotland, and I drive down to Teesside when a North East customer needs a visit.",
      "I'm seeing out a long contract with a cladding manufacturer, so I'm not taking new work until April 2027. After that I'll be looking for one or two industrial lines to finish my career on."
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    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 21
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    "id": "femi-o",
    "slot": "ag-035",
    "firstName": "Femi",
    "lastInitial": "O",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-035.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-035.jpg",
    "headline": "Facilities services sales to UK offices and sites",
    "town": "Oxford",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "facilities"
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    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 10,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "My dad ran a cleaning company, so I've been around mops and rotas since I was 12. I've been selling facilities services for ten years: contract cleaning, pest control, waste collection and security.",
      "I work by phone, video and email, which lets me cover the whole of the UK from Oxford without spending my week in a car. My buyers are office managers, facilities managers and procurement teams at companies of 50 to 1,000 staff. Tenders and written proposals are a strength.",
      "I'll only take facilities products and services that can be delivered nationally, or regionally with a clear map of where. I'd rather sell contract services with a monthly fee than one-off jobs."
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    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 0,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 26
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    "id": "ryan-h",
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    "firstName": "Ryan",
    "lastInitial": "H",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-036.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "headline": "Property sales to homeowners and landlords",
    "town": "Solihull",
    "region": "west-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "west-midlands"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "property"
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    "channels": [
      "video",
      "field",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 7,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Estate agency was my first job out of college, and I spent five years valuing and selling homes around Solihull and Birmingham. For the last two I've worked for myself, so seven years in property sales in all.",
      "I canvass door to door for valuations and instructions, use video for viewings and landlord catch-ups, and get a good share of work through referrals from past vendors and local tradespeople. I stay within the West Midlands, because local knowledge is the whole job.",
      "Send me independent agencies short of instructions, or property management firms, surveyors and new-build developments that need buyers. I know most of the agents between Solihull and Sutton Coldfield by name."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Won 64 sales instructions from door-to-door valuations in 2024",
      "Sold all 22 flats in a Solihull development within four months of launch"
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    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 28,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 28
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    "id": "vikram-n",
    "slot": "ag-037",
    "firstName": "Vikram",
    "lastInitial": "N",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-037.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-037.jpg",
    "headline": "Health and hospitality sales to venues and the public",
    "town": "Luton",
    "region": "east",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "health",
      "hospitality"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person",
      "field"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 6,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Pharmacy was the family business in Luton, and I worked the counter through my teens. Six years ago I moved into sales, first selling hearing tests and home health checks door to door, then supplying hotels and gyms with wellbeing services.",
      "I sell to consumers on the doorstep and by phone, and to hotels, spas and leisure centres in person. I'll travel anywhere in the UK for a campaign. I stick to the approved wording when I describe a health product.",
      "For consumer health products I'd want compliance training before I knock on a single door. For venues, I'm after something that makes the manager's life easier, like spa treatments, guest wellbeing packages or staff health checks."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Booked 1,100 home hearing tests door to door in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire",
      "Sold a spa treatment menu into 17 hotels across England",
      "Signed 9 leisure centres to a staff health check service in 2025"
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    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 4
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    "id": "nadine-m",
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    "firstName": "Nadine",
    "lastInitial": "M",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-038.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-038.jpg",
    "headline": "Software sales to small businesses in the East",
    "town": "Ipswich",
    "region": "east",
    "coverage": [
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software"
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    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 9,
    "availability": "closed",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Happy with one-off commission",
    "bio": [
      "Born in Kinshasa, raised in Ipswich, and in software sales for nine years. I started as a sales development rep at a Cambridge HR software company, then sold booking and CRM tools to small businesses.",
      "Phone and email are my tools. I read up on each prospect's recent news and hiring, send a short email with a reason to talk, and follow up by phone. I focus on the East of England. French comes in handy with French and Belgian software firms entering the UK.",
      "Not taking new work until June 2027. From then I'm happy with one-off commission per signed customer, ideally for a product small firms can buy without a long procurement process."
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    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "French"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 22,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 8
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    "id": "kenny-t",
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    "firstName": "Kenny",
    "lastInitial": "T",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-039.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-039.jpg",
    "headline": "Accountancy, payroll and insurance sales to SMEs",
    "town": "Ealing",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "south-east",
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "finance"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 6,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Accountancy was my first plan. I did two years of ACCA before realising I preferred talking to clients over reconciling their books, and I've spent the six years since selling accounting, payroll and business insurance to small companies.",
      "I sell entirely by phone, and I'm comfortable with technical detail: VAT schemes, pension auto-enrolment, professional indemnity. My buyers are company directors with 5 to 50 staff in London, the South East and the East of England.",
      "I'm looking for more business services or finance products, ideally on recurring commission, since payroll and bookkeeping are billed monthly and business insurance renews every year."
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    "highlights": [
      "Signed 140 small businesses to a monthly bookkeeping and payroll service",
      "Placed £210k of annual commercial insurance premiums by phone in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 30
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    "id": "sam-t",
    "slot": "ag-040",
    "firstName": "Sam",
    "lastInitial": "T",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-040.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "headline": "Software and training for Yorkshire builders",
    "town": "York",
    "region": "yorkshire",
    "coverage": [
      "yorkshire"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software",
      "construction",
      "education"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 10,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Happy with one-off commission",
    "bio": [
      "A decade ago I swapped site management at a housebuilder near Wakefield for sales, selling project software to the builders I used to work alongside. In those ten years I've added health and safety courses and apprenticeship programmes to what I sell.",
      "I meet contractors on site or at their office and run follow-ups and demos on video. I keep to Yorkshire and the Humber, where I know which firms are growing and who makes the decisions.",
      "Bring me software, training or construction products for contractors and trades. One-off commission per sale is fine, as long as the product is priced so a small firm can say yes on the day."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold construction project software to 75 Yorkshire contractors in five years"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 11
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    "id": "pauline-s",
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    "firstName": "Pauline",
    "lastInitial": "S",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-041.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "headline": "Home broadband and property sales to homeowners",
    "town": "Sutton Coldfield",
    "region": "west-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "west-midlands"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "telecoms",
      "property"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "in-person",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 39,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Sutton Coldfield has been my patch since 1987, when I started as a trainee negotiator at an estate agent there, and I've been selling to homeowners for the 39 years since. Around 2010 I added home broadband and TV packages, when a local provider asked me to run their showroom.",
      "I sell face to face at home appointments, in showrooms and at community events, and use email and Facebook to follow up and find new customers. I stay in the West Midlands, where I've sold houses to the children of people I sold houses to.",
      "I'll take full-fibre broadband, home phone and TV, or property services like surveys and lettings: anything a homeowner buys where trust matters more than the price."
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    "highlights": [
      "Sold 900 full-fibre connections at showroom and community events in 2023–24",
      "Listed and sold more than 1,500 homes as an estate agent in the West Midlands"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 10,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 24
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    "id": "gillian-t",
    "slot": "ag-042",
    "firstName": "Gillian",
    "lastInitial": "T",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-042.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-042.jpg",
    "headline": "B2B software and services for manufacturers",
    "town": "Sunderland",
    "region": "north-east",
    "coverage": [
      "north-east"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "it-software",
      "manufacturing"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 23,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Sunderland's factories gave me my start. I've had 23 years in B2B sales, beginning in a local engineering firm's sales office, then selling ERP software and HR services to manufacturers across the region.",
      "Nearly all my new work comes from referrals: finance directors and operations managers I've sold to, and the accountants and consultants they use. Everything else runs over video, including demos and negotiations, and I focus on the North East.",
      "Two clients take four days of my week, so I can give a third product one day. It needs to fit manufacturers or the business services firms around them, such as payroll, ERP, quality management or IT support."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold ERP software to 28 manufacturers in the North East over ten years"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 22,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 17
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    "id": "jerome-a",
    "slot": "ag-043",
    "firstName": "Jerome",
    "lastInitial": "A",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-043.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-043.jpg",
    "headline": "Hospitality sales to venues, hotels and guests",
    "town": "Scarborough",
    "region": "yorkshire",
    "coverage": [
      "yorkshire"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "hospitality"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "in-person",
      "field",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 16,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Hotels have been my life since I was 18: waiter, bar manager, then sales manager for a group of seaside hotels in Scarborough. I've spent 16 years selling in hospitality, both to venues and direct to guests.",
      "I sell in person, on the doorstep for local offers and in venues for trade deals, and I get a lot of work through referrals from hotel and pub managers. I stay in Yorkshire and the Humber, from the coast to the Dales.",
      "One more hospitality product fits my diary: event packages, spa days, hotel breaks or local leisure memberships. I'd like it to have strong local appeal, because that's what sells on a Yorkshire doorstep."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold £650k of wedding and event packages for a Scarborough hotel group",
      "Signed 1,200 local households to a leisure club membership door to door"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 5
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    "id": "dylan-h",
    "slot": "ag-044",
    "firstName": "Dylan",
    "lastInitial": "H",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-044.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-044.jpg",
    "headline": "Software and services for hotels, pubs and SMEs",
    "town": "Newport",
    "region": "wales",
    "coverage": [
      "south-west",
      "west-midlands",
      "north-west",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "it-software",
      "hospitality"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 6,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "I left university with a history degree and no plan, spent four years running a Cardiff pub, then a hotel software company took me on as a trainee six years ago. I sold booking and till systems to pubs and hotels, then moved into IT support and bookkeeping services for small businesses.",
      "My time is split between the phone and visits. I cover Wales, the South West, the West Midlands and the North West, working from home in Newport and driving out when a meeting is worth it. My buyers are owners and general managers who don't have time for a long pitch.",
      "I'm after products for pubs, hotels and small businesses, ideally ones an owner can set up in an afternoon. Recurring commission works best for me, as most of what I sell is a monthly subscription."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold a booking system to 95 pubs and hotels in Wales and the West Country",
      "Kept churn under 5% a year across my software accounts"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 17,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 25
  },
  {
    "id": "kasia-w",
    "slot": "ag-045",
    "firstName": "Kasia",
    "lastInitial": "W",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-045.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
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    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-045.jpg",
    "headline": "Telecoms sales to hotels, pubs and restaurants",
    "town": "Stoke-on-Trent",
    "region": "west-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "east-midlands",
      "west-midlands",
      "north-west",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "telecoms",
      "hospitality"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 17,
    "availability": "closed",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Open to a small retainer while ramping up",
    "bio": [
      "Poland to Stoke in 2009, and straight onto the phones at a business telecoms reseller. That was 17 years ago, and I've sold phone systems, broadband and guest Wi-Fi to hospitality businesses ever since.",
      "I work by phone and video. I know what a hotel manager or pub landlord needs from their connectivity, and I can take them through it in English or Polish. I cover the West Midlands, the East Midlands, the North West and Wales.",
      "My diary is full, so I'm not taking new work until May 2027. After that I'd consider one telecoms or hospitality product. Most venues are tied into two- or three-year contracts, so I'd ask for a small retainer until renewals start coming round."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Moved 210 pubs and restaurants onto a hosted phone and Wi-Fi package",
      "Sold £300k of guest Wi-Fi contracts to Midlands hotel groups"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Polish"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 13,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 14
  },
  {
    "id": "eleni-k",
    "slot": "ag-046",
    "firstName": "Eleni",
    "lastInitial": "K",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-046.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-046.jpg",
    "headline": "Finance, retail and logistics sales to London firms",
    "town": "Barnet",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "finance",
      "retail",
      "logistics"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "in-person",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 6,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "My uncle's wholesale counter in Tottenham is where I started selling, at 19, instead of going to university. Six years later I sell business finance, retail supplies and courier contracts to small firms in London and the East of England.",
      "I sell face to face and through referrals. Greek and Cypriot business owners in north London are a big part of my network, and I speak Greek with most of them. I'm good at the second and third meeting, where someone decides whether they trust you.",
      "I'll take merchant services, business loans, delivery and courier services, or stock for shops. I'd like some leads to start with, but I'll build my own pipeline too."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Arranged £1.1m of business loans for 40 north London shops and wholesalers",
      "Signed 55 retailers to a same-day courier service in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "Greek"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 6,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 7
  },
  {
    "id": "jordan-m",
    "slot": "ag-047",
    "firstName": "Jordan",
    "lastInitial": "M",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-047.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": "/assets/img/agents/card/ag-047.jpg",
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-047.jpg",
    "headline": "Telesales for energy and food, homes and businesses",
    "town": "Middlesbrough",
    "region": "north-east",
    "coverage": [
      "yorkshire",
      "north-east",
      "scotland"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "energy",
      "food-drink"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 8,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Open to a small retainer while ramping up",
    "bio": [
      "Call centres in Middlesbrough taught me everything. I started on an energy switching line, and in eight years of sales I've sold tariffs, boiler cover, meal kits and craft beer subscriptions by phone.",
      "Phone is my only channel. I sell to households and to small businesses like cafés and pubs, across the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and Scotland. I keep my pipeline in a CRM and my call notes tidy.",
      "Energy or food and drink products are what I want to take on. If the leads are cold, I'd ask for a small retainer to cover the first 500 dials; after that I'm happy to be paid on results."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold 2,400 home energy tariffs by phone in 2019",
      "Signed 180 cafés and pubs to a craft beer supplier's monthly delivery"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 1,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 26
  },
  {
    "id": "euan-m",
    "slot": "ag-048",
    "firstName": "Euan",
    "lastInitial": "M",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-048.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-048.jpg",
    "headline": "Software sales to UK construction firms",
    "town": "Edinburgh",
    "region": "scotland",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software",
      "construction"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "in-person",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 14,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Open to a small retainer while ramping up",
    "bio": [
      "Edinburgh's construction software scene was tiny when I joined a start-up there at 20 as its first salesperson. Fourteen years later I've sold estimating, BIM and site management software to contractors of every size, the last four as an independent.",
      "Most of my work comes through referrals from quantity surveyors and contractors. I do discovery and demos on video, and meet the decision makers in person for the final stages, anywhere in the UK.",
      "Construction tech is where I want to stay. Enterprise deals can take six months, so I'd ask for a small retainer until the first contract signs, then commission only."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Closed a £750k, three-year software deal with a top-50 UK contractor"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 15
  },
  {
    "id": "rohan-s",
    "slot": "ag-049",
    "firstName": "Rohan",
    "lastInitial": "S",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-049.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-049.jpg",
    "headline": "Property sales to buyers, landlords and investors",
    "town": "Hounslow",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "south-east"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "property"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 14,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Prefers an exclusive territory",
    "bio": [
      "Property is all I've sold: 14 years, starting at a Hounslow estate agency at 19, from starter flats to buy-to-let portfolios and off-plan developments. I went independent in 2022, after six years running a branch.",
      "I meet buyers and landlords in person for viewings and valuations, and use video for overseas investors and first calls. I work across London and the South East. I'm particularly strong with investors buying their first two or three properties.",
      "Developers and agencies with stock to sell are welcome to get in touch. I'd want an exclusive territory, so a developer or agency isn't putting me up against their own staff."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold 38 off-plan flats to overseas investors, mostly over video",
      "Built a landlord book of 120 properties for a lettings agency in west London"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 3,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 14
  },
  {
    "id": "megan-r",
    "slot": "ag-050",
    "firstName": "Megan",
    "lastInitial": "R",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-050.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-050.jpg",
    "headline": "Marketing services sales to small businesses",
    "town": "Warrington",
    "region": "north-west",
    "coverage": [
      "north-west",
      "wales"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "marketing"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 6,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Social media got me into sales. At 18 I was running Instagram for a Warrington salon, and when other businesses asked for the same, I started selling it. That was six years ago, and I've since sold SEO, paid ads and website packages for three agencies.",
      "I find clients through LinkedIn, Instagram and email, and run discovery, proposals and closing calls over video. I focus on the North West and Wales, mostly with trades, salons, clinics and independent shops.",
      "I want marketing services sold on a monthly retainer, with recurring commission for as long as the client stays. I check an agency's results for three of its existing clients before I sell for it."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Signed 64 small businesses to monthly social media retainers in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 26
  },
  {
    "id": "craig-n",
    "slot": "ag-051",
    "firstName": "Craig",
    "lastInitial": "N",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-051.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-051.jpg",
    "headline": "Food, drink and leisure sales direct to consumers",
    "town": "Darlington",
    "region": "north-east",
    "coverage": [
      "yorkshire",
      "north-east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "food-drink",
      "retail",
      "hospitality"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 13,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Markets and shows are where I learned to sell: farmers' markets, county shows, Christmas fairs. It's 13 years now, selling food, drink, homeware and days out straight to the public.",
      "I sell face to face at events, pop-ups and in-store tastings, and increasingly by video for gift boxes and experiences. I cover the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber, and I can run a stand on my own all weekend.",
      "This season I can fit in one more product. It should be something people enjoy buying: local food and drink, gifts, hospitality vouchers or experiences."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold £120k of gin and gift hampers at North East and Yorkshire Christmas fairs in 2025"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 27,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 24
  },
  {
    "id": "roger-k",
    "slot": "ag-052",
    "firstName": "Roger",
    "lastInitial": "K",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-052.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-052.jpg",
    "headline": "Enterprise software sales to UK businesses",
    "town": "Tunbridge Wells",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "nationwide"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "video"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 37,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "In 1989 I sold my first software licence, a stock control package for a Kent wholesaler. Since then it's been 37 years of selling software to businesses: ERP, HR, CRM and, for the last decade, SaaS of every kind.",
      "I only work on video now. From home in Tunbridge Wells I run discovery, demos and negotiations with finance directors and CIOs across the UK. Buyers are used to it, and I'm not losing two days a week to the M25.",
      "I've room for one more software product, ideally a subscription platform for mid-sized firms. Recurring commission is my preference, since SaaS contracts at that size usually run for three years."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Closed £3.2m of total contract value for an HR software company over four years",
      "Sold a CRM platform to 60 insurance brokers entirely over video",
      "Mentored six junior account executives who now lead sales teams"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 5,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 22
  },
  {
    "id": "louise-d",
    "slot": "ag-053",
    "firstName": "Louise",
    "lastInitial": "D",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-053.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": "/assets/img/agents/card/ag-053.jpg",
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-053.jpg",
    "headline": "Marketing and property services for estate agents",
    "town": "Huddersfield",
    "region": "yorkshire",
    "coverage": [
      "yorkshire",
      "north-east"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "marketing",
      "property"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 13,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "After a languages degree and eight years teaching English in Lyon, I came home to Huddersfield and took a job selling advertising to estate agents. I've been in sales for 13 years, covering property marketing, photography, signage and lettings services.",
      "I sell by phone and in person to estate and letting agents, developers and property managers in Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East. I plan visits in clusters, so a day in Leeds or Newcastle covers eight or nine offices.",
      "Give me marketing or property services for agents and developers and I can start this month. French has also been useful with French-owned developers and holiday let firms."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Signed 110 estate agency branches to a property photography and floorplan service",
      "Sold £400k of new-build marketing packages to Yorkshire developers",
      "Grew a For Sale board company's North East accounts from 12 to 47"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English",
      "French"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 1,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 14
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  {
    "id": "sophie-b",
    "slot": "ag-054",
    "firstName": "Sophie",
    "lastInitial": "B",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-054.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-054.jpg",
    "headline": "B2B sales for London hospitality and logistics",
    "town": "Greenwich",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "business-services",
      "hospitality",
      "logistics"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 14,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Events got me started: at 20 I was selling corporate hospitality packages at a racecourse. I've been in sales for 14 years since, selling catering contracts, office moves, courier accounts and staffing services to London businesses, and working for myself since 2021.",
      "I use the phone to open, video for proposals, and in person for tastings, site visits and signing. I stay in London, where I can be at a client's office within the hour, and I work from home the rest of the time.",
      "I'll take hospitality, logistics or business services for London firms, from a client whose delivery is as good as the pitch. I sell to the same office managers for years, and they remember a late courier."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Won a £1m office catering contract with a City law firm",
      "Signed 90 London restaurants to a same-day supply delivery service",
      "Filled 400 event staffing shifts a month for a hospitality agency in 2024"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 21,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 30
  },
  {
    "id": "alfie-n",
    "slot": "ag-055",
    "firstName": "Alfie",
    "lastInitial": "N",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-055.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-055.jpg",
    "headline": "Broadband and mobile sales to households",
    "town": "Truro",
    "region": "south-west",
    "coverage": [
      "south-west"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "telecoms"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2c",
    "years": 2,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Two years ago I left a warehouse job to sell mobile contracts in a Truro phone shop, and found out I was quite good at it. Since then I've moved on to selling full-fibre broadband to households as rural Cornwall gets connected.",
      "I sell face to face at village halls and in people's homes, by phone, and on video with people who've moved down and still work for London firms. I stay in the South West. The trick with broadband is explaining speeds and contract terms in plain English.",
      "I sell for one provider and have space for a second product, ideally broadband, mobile or home phone. Recurring commission would suit me, since broadband customers pay monthly on 18- or 24-month contracts."
    ],
    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": null,
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 9,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 23
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  {
    "id": "darren-k",
    "slot": "ag-056",
    "firstName": "Darren",
    "lastInitial": "K",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-056.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-056.jpg",
    "headline": "Construction and food supply sales to trade buyers",
    "town": "Mansfield",
    "region": "east-midlands",
    "coverage": [
      "east-midlands",
      "west-midlands"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "construction",
      "food-drink"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 14,
    "availability": "closed",
    "verified": false,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Bricks and biscuits, basically. For 14 years I've sold building products to contractors and merchants, and bakery and snack lines to wholesalers and caterers, across the East and West Midlands.",
      "Face to face is how I sell. I'm on the road most days, at merchants' yards, site cabins and food wholesalers' offices. I cover the East Midlands and the West Midlands, and I get on well with most of the independent merchants.",
      "Until the end of January 2027 I'm not taking new work. After that I'll look for one construction or food product with recurring commission on repeat orders, since merchants and wholesalers reorder the same lines every few weeks."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Opened 70 merchant accounts for a block paving manufacturer",
      "Got a Leicestershire bakery's snack range into 40 wholesalers",
      "Sold £1.3m of roofing products to Midlands contractors in 2024"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 30,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 16
  },
  {
    "id": "nicola-h",
    "slot": "ag-057",
    "firstName": "Nicola",
    "lastInitial": "H",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-057.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-057.jpg",
    "headline": "Software and IT support sales to small businesses",
    "town": "Doncaster",
    "region": "yorkshire",
    "coverage": [
      "east-midlands",
      "yorkshire",
      "north-east"
    ],
    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "in-person"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 17,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Doncaster born and raised. I've been in IT sales for 17 years, starting in a computer supplier's business team, then managed IT, then accounts and CRM software for a Leeds reseller.",
      "I prospect by phone and go in person for the meeting that matters. My buyers are owners and office managers at firms with 10 to 150 staff, and I bring a one-page summary with no jargon to every meeting. I cover Yorkshire and the Humber, the East Midlands and the North East.",
      "I'll take software or IT products for small and mid-sized businesses, if the client handles onboarding and its support team picks up the phone. My customers will call me if it doesn't."
    ],
    "highlights": [],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a day",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 4,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 21
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  {
    "id": "danielle-o",
    "slot": "ag-058",
    "firstName": "Danielle",
    "lastInitial": "O",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-058.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-058.jpg",
    "headline": "Food and retail brands into shops and wholesalers",
    "town": "Chelmsford",
    "region": "east",
    "coverage": [
      "south-east",
      "east",
      "east-midlands"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "food-drink",
      "retail"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "phone",
      "video",
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 13,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Supermarket buying offices were my first workplace. Two years as a buyer's assistant taught me exactly what buyers hate about sales pitches, so I switched sides, and I've now spent 13 years getting food, drink and consumer brands into independent shops, delis and wholesalers.",
      "I work by phone, video and email, with a lot of samples in the post. I cover the East of England, the South East and the East Midlands. I go into buyer calls with the numbers they ask for: margins, rate of sale and how the product will be merchandised.",
      "Bring me food, drink or retail brands that are ready for wider distribution. I check a brand can supply a wholesaler's volumes before I put my name to it with a buyer."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Took a hot sauce brand from 12 to 210 independent stockists in 18 months"
    ],
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      "English"
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    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 2,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 19
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    "id": "anjali-r",
    "slot": "ag-059",
    "firstName": "Anjali",
    "lastInitial": "R",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-059.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-059.jpg",
    "headline": "Telecoms and hospitality sales to venues and the public",
    "town": "Southall",
    "region": "london",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "south-east",
      "east"
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    "remote": false,
    "sectors": [
      "telecoms",
      "hospitality"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "in-person",
      "referrals"
    ],
    "buyer": "both",
    "years": 2,
    "availability": "limited",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": "Recurring commission preferred",
    "bio": [
      "Hospitality came first: I worked in my cousin's restaurant in Southall through college. Two years ago I moved into sales, selling mobile and broadband deals at pop-up stands, and then business Wi-Fi and phones to restaurants and cafés.",
      "I sell in person and through referrals. Restaurant owners pass me on to friends, and happy customers bring their families. I cover London, the South East and the East of England.",
      "There's space for one more product in telecoms or hospitality, such as venue Wi-Fi, table booking or private dining packages. Recurring commission suits me, since venue Wi-Fi and booking systems are billed monthly."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Sold 480 mobile and broadband contracts at London pop-up stands in 2025",
      "Signed 26 restaurants to a business Wi-Fi and phone package",
      "Booked 60 private dining events for a Southall banqueting hall"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within 2 days",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 28,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 7
  },
  {
    "id": "matt-e",
    "slot": "ag-060",
    "firstName": "Matt",
    "lastInitial": "E",
    "photo": "/assets/img/agents/ag-060.jpg",
    "photoFocus": "50% 38%",
    "cardPhoto": null,
    "tilePhoto": "/assets/img/agents/tile/ag-060.jpg",
    "headline": "B2B email outreach for software, food and property",
    "town": "Brighton",
    "region": "south-east",
    "coverage": [
      "london",
      "south-east"
    ],
    "remote": true,
    "sectors": [
      "it-software",
      "food-drink",
      "property"
    ],
    "channels": [
      "digital"
    ],
    "buyer": "b2b",
    "years": 8,
    "availability": "open",
    "verified": true,
    "commissionPreference": null,
    "bio": [
      "Cold email is an unfashionable skill, but it has paid my mortgage for eight years. I started as a content writer at a Brighton software agency, moved into outbound, and now run email and LinkedIn campaigns that book meetings and close smaller deals in writing.",
      "Everything I do is written. I research each prospect, write the sequences, reply to every response personally and handle the back-and-forth until the contract is signed. I cover London and the South East.",
      "I'll take software, food and drink, or property products for businesses, where a buyer can say yes after a written proposal or a sample. I don't take on deals that need someone on site."
    ],
    "highlights": [
      "Booked 260 sales meetings for a property software firm by email in 2024",
      "Won 35 café and deli accounts for a Sussex coffee roaster by email alone"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "replies": "within a week",
    "lastActiveDaysAgo": 17,
    "joinedMonthsAgo": 22
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