insights & resources
- AI ML
- Indigo Munro
- 5 min
The Executive Takeaway Generative AI has pushed the marginal cost of code and basic UI toward zero. When every competitor can generate an application in an afternoon, software itself stops being a moat. At a private executive breakfast hosted by Salient’s Indigo Munro, product leaders from fintech, logistics, B2B SaaS
- Tech Hiring
- Danny Butterfield
- 5 min
I’ve spent years recruiting into research-heavy technical teams. Whether it is healthcare, longevity, medical devices, or AI-driven triage, science and software are colliding. Even against that, something about the market forming around AI4Science feels different. Over the last few months, I’ve found myself having more hiring conversations with candidates that
- Sales Hiring
- Yvette Midwinter
- 5 min
I’ve sat in plenty of meetings where a client lays out, with total confidence, exactly what they want in a VP of Sales and every problem that hire is going to fix. It’s rarely that simple. It’s usually the single decision that determines whether the next eighteen months are spent
- Tech Hiring
- Yvette Midwinter
- 5 Minutes
How to Structure a Data Team – a Guide I sat down with Adam Li, who leads data and analytics talent placements at Salient, to talk about a question that comes up often for his clients: how do you actually structure a data team? Not generally but for the specific
- Jonny Jameson
- 4 Minutes
This is the 2026 rate card for DevOps, SRE, Cloud Architecture, and FinOps contractors across Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore. Use it to budget a contract, sanity-check an agency’s quote, or set expectations before a scoping call. A DevOps engineer contract day rate in Sydney currently runs from $800 for mid-level
- Tech Hiring
- Yvette Midwinter
- 5 min