The search firm that publishes like a lab
Gradient Search exists because of a gap we couldn't stop staring at: Australian AI hiring is a specialist problem served almost entirely by generalists.
Australia's AI workforce has grown from a few hundred people to tens of thousands in a decade, demand is concentrated in a nameable set of employers, and the roles themselves have specialised fast — yet the recruitment market serving them still runs on conflated job titles, gated "salary guides" with no stated method, and thirteen-week guarantees.
We run one market — AI specialists in Australia — and we run it the way this field would: a published role taxonomy instead of keyword matching; individually-interviewed compensation data instead of folklore; rubric-scored, evidence-packed assessment instead of a formatted CV; a contractual clock and a six-month guarantee instead of adjectives. Everything we claim is something you can check.
Principles we operate by:
- Specialise or don't bother. We refuse work outside AI — the narrowness is what makes the network, the data and the speed real.
- Publish the method. Comp data, taxonomy, AI transparency statement: ungated, stated, citable.
- Humans decide. We use AI heavily in our own operation — disclosed, consented, audit-logged, with a person making every decision. We hold ourselves to the standard our governance clients are held to.
- The candidate experience is the brand. Every interaction is designed to survive being screenshotted into a group chat of ML engineers.
Gradient Search is founded and led by Jeremy Greene, Sydney. The firm is founder-operated by design in its first years — every search is principal-led.