HeXTalent — Human-first products, built with AI, from the Sunshine Coast

The Humanistic eXchange

The company behind everything I build. Human-first products, made with AI, from the Sunshine Coast.

Hiring in HR? Go straight to talent infrastructure

Jeff Teale, founder of HeXTalent, smiling in a navy blazer

The founder

Freedom over status.

I'm Jeff. I played Aussie rules from the age of five and represented Queensland as a teenager. Then I found singing, and spent my twenties touring the world, finishing with musical theatre for Opera Australia and a children's play we took to regional towns in every state and territory.

At 30 I moved to Melbourne and started again in sales and business development. That led me into HR recruitment, and during COVID I took a gamble and founded my own recruitment company.

When our kids came along, we moved home to the Sunshine Coast. Now I run a small portfolio: I clean houses, run a small HR search practice, and build with AI. Cleaning gives me freedom, people and time on the road, and AI agents build my products while I work. Recruitment is where a decade of expertise pays off. AI is what I'm building towards.

Every chapter has been the same decision: freedom over status.

Follow along in Freedom Over Status

Group 01 — Talent infrastructure

Australia's specialist HR ecosystem.

A connected ecosystem for Australian HR professionals, with HeXTalent's HR search and selection practice behind it.

Ecosystem · membership Live

Careers in HR

A connected ecosystem for Australian HR professionals: HR market visibility, a role consideration workspace, profile-led career positioning and private in-role reflection, all under one annual membership.

Market shows what's happening. Read helps members think through specific roles. Talent strengthens how they position themselves. Tenure helps them understand the career story they're already building.

Market

The member-only view of the Australian HR opportunity market: live employer and recruiter roles, categories, locations, Role Radar insights and featured opportunities in one HR-specific place.

market.careersinhr.com.au

Read

The role consideration workspace. Save roles from Market, keep source links and job context together, and create ReadNotes that show how your CV, cover letter and experience line up against a specific opportunity.

read.careersinhr.com.au

Talent

The career positioning layer. Clarify the roles you want next, build a stronger private profile, and find better language for your strengths, motivations, experience and direction, connected to aligned opportunities across Careers in HR.

talent.careersinhr.com.au

Tenure

The private in-role reflection space. Capture what's happening while you're still in a role (fit, friction, confidence, growth, evidence and lessons) and turn day-to-day work into clearer career insight over time.

tenure.careersinhr.com.au

Employers can submit HR opportunities into the ecosystem to appear in the HR Market Board, with optional promoted visibility across the wider Careers in HR network.

Visit careersinhr.com.au

Advisory · Search & selection Selective

HR Search & Selection

HeXTalent runs a small, specialist HR search and selection practice. I take on a limited number of HR assignments directly each year, where the brief, the client and the timing all line up. When a role isn't the right fit for me, I'll connect you with a trusted specialist recruiter from my network instead.

Direct search, selectively. HR roles handled personally, start to finish.
Referral when it's better for you. Introductions to specialist HR recruiters across Australia. No fee, no obligation.
HR only. Every assignment and every referral sits inside the HR discipline.

Explore search & selection

Got an HR hire in mind? Email jeff@hextalent.com.au for the shortest route to the right person.

Group 02 — On the ground

Real work, real customers.

Local service Live

Sunny Cleans

Owner-operated domestic and commercial cleaning for Sunshine Coast homes and workplaces, built on ongoing relationships rather than one-off jobs. It keeps me on the road and around people, and it's where I test AI in day-to-day operations like scheduling and admin before it goes anywhere near a product.

Visit sunnycleans.com.au

ModelOwner-operated: the same person, every visit
ScheduleWeekly and fortnightly
Coverage32 suburbs across the Sunshine Coast

Group 03 — AI products

Small, focused products, built with AI.

Each one solves one real problem for one kind of person. Most start on the Sunshine Coast.

AI storytelling Live

Sunny Stories

Ten personalised children's stories starring your child by name, set in your family's favourite Sunshine Coast places, delivered instantly for $15.

Blueprint engine guarantees every child, place and interest appears
54+ curated Sunshine Coast locations
3 or 5-minute story lengths, eight story vibes

Visit sunnystories.co

AI memory Early access

Sunny Home

An AI memory for your home. For homeowners tired of carrying the whole house in their head. Send Sunny anything to do with your home (a receipt, a warranty, a quote, a photo, a passing thought) and it remembers, works out what it is, and hands it back the moment you ask.

Send it your way: forward an email, upload a file or jot a quick note. No folders, no tags.
Ask in plain English, like "Who serviced the air con?", and get it back in seconds.
Private by default: your home's memory is yours, never sold and never used to train AI.

Visit sunnyhome.com.au

Built by the team behind Sunny Cleans.

AI visibility Early access

Answer Ready

Helps local businesses get recommended by AI. More people now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity who's good near them, and the answer names two or three businesses. Answer Ready checks whether yours is one of them, then shows exactly what to fix.

Free check: real customer questions asked to the major AI assistants
A score out of 100 and a ranked list of fixes
Sunny Cleans was the first test case

Visit answerready.com.au

Local platform In build

Sunny Estates

A hyper-local platform showcasing every business in one industrial estate, starting with the Moffat Beach Business Park in Caloundra. Trades, mechanics, gyms, makers and coffee, all searchable in one place, with a free page for every business.

Search by need, like "car service" or "open now"
A page and a private snapshot for every business in the estate
Starting with one estate, done properly

Visit sunnyestates.com.au

Plus a new idea every week. Follow the builds in Freedom Over Status.

How we build

Every venture shares the same foundation: clarity, craft, and care for the people on the other side of the screen.

Specialist, not generic

Each venture is built for a specific audience, never everything to everyone.

Support-led

Clarity before opportunity, structure before scale. Volume is a byproduct, not the goal.

Built to last

Long-term products and relationships, for people who value being known over being marketed to.

Built with AI, shipped in public

AI does the heavy lifting so a very small team can build properly. The builds, costs and lessons are shared every week in Freedom Over Status.

Get in touch

Let's talk.

One inbox. Pick the route that fits and I'll reply personally.

jeff@hextalent.com.au