Three services. No one else has all three.
Salt Perspectives operates where federal health systems, commercial MedTech, and academic research intersect. The value isn't a framework applied to your situation — it's fluency that already exists in the rooms where your work needs to land.
Most consultants learn your sector. Salt Perspectives already operates in it.
A traditional consulting engagement begins with orientation — weeks spent learning the landscape, mapping relationships, understanding how decisions get made. That time is billed to you.
Salt Perspectives brings existing fluency across federal health systems, commercial MedTech markets, and academic research ecosystems. The institutional knowledge is already current. The work starts where other engagements are still warming up.
Faster traction, less re-explanation, and strategic counsel that accounts for how these systems actually behave — not how they're supposed to behave on paper.
Three services. One firm.
Federal Market Access
Navigate VA and federal health systems with senior insight — from VHA procurement pathways and SBIR/STTR strategy to clinical champion networks and senior leadership influence. This is access built from four years inside the system, not learned from the outside.
Emerging Technology Evaluation
PhD-level assessment of MedTech and health AI — clinical decision support, ambient documentation, edge AI, wearables, XR/AR, and digital twins. Evaluation from someone who has integrated these technologies inside a federal system, not just advised on them from the outside.
Innovation Strategy
Translate between the lab, the agency, and the market simultaneously. From congressional mandate execution and federal funding navigation to commercialization strategy and cross-sector partnership development — built for organizations that need to move across all three sectors at once.
Four ways to engage.
Embedded Advisory
Ongoing senior advisory relationship embedded across your initiatives. Available for decision support and proactive guidance as opportunities emerge.
Best for: MedTech startups, health systems, and incubators navigating federal and commercial markets over time.
Defined Engagement
A scoped project with a clear deliverable. Structured to produce actionable results — federal market entry strategy, technology evaluation, or innovation program design.
Best for: Organizations with a defined challenge and a specific decision to make.
Rapid Consultation
Focused, high-intensity work for immediate needs. Direct technical assessment or federal go/no-go read from someone who has been on the evaluation side.
Best for: Startups and primes needing a fast, credible read on a specific technical or federal question.
GovCon Teaming
Senior technical SME and federal health subject matter expertise for GovCon prime bids and active contracts. Brings VHA clinical champion networks, senior leadership access, and PhD-level technical credibility to your team.
Best for: Prime contractors pursuing VHA or federal health contracts who need a credible, senior federal health SME — as a teaming partner or subcontractor.
What to Expect.
Every engagement starts with a direct conversation.
The first conversation is with Dr. Stefany Holguín — to understand the challenge, the context, and what's already been tried.
The work is built around your situation.
The approach is shaped by your specific challenge and the systems it needs to move through — not applied uniformly.
An Honest Read, Always.
Valuable work requires honesty. An accurate read on the science, the opportunity, and the risks — delivered in time to act.
The right expertise for the challenge.
Where specialized depth is required, the right experts are brought in deliberately for the specific problem at hand.
The Right Engagement Starts with the Right Conversation.
If you're not sure which engagement type fits your situation, that's what the first call is for.
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