January 19, 2026

Why Upgrades Matter More Than You Think

Liked the Saros 10R? Meet Its Overachieving Sibling.

It used to be enough if your robot vacuum didn’t eat your phone charger and crash into your skirting board like a hungover house guest. Then came the Roborock Saros 10R—smart, sleek, confident.

But now the Saros 20 has glided onto the stage.

Bigger suction, better self-emptying, more intelligent autonomy. Basically, the 10R walked (well, wheeled) so the 20 could clean laps around your flat without missing a crumb.

Why am I, Gozie Ezulike—a recruiter, not a vacuum salesman—ranting about robo-hoovers?

Because the 10R to 20R leap is a perfect metaphor for how smart, targeted improvements in your team (or tech stack, or hiring process) can create unfair advantages.

Power Up: Suction Is Strategy

The Saros 20 has 11,000Pa of suction. That’s 85% more than the 10R. Is that overkill? Maybe for toast crumbs, sure. But if you've got golden retriever-level hair situations (or metaphorical clutter in your business), it matters.

Lesson: Sometimes, your team needs more power—not more people. Don’t just throw hires at problems. Hire the right skill level for the job and give them the tools to suck the mess out of bottlenecks.

Ask yourself:

• Are we hiring at the right level, or just filling seats?
• Who on our team is stuck cleaning with a Dustbuster when they need a Dyson?

The Art of Not Asking: Autonomous Intelligence

The 20 doesn’t just navigate obstacles. It learns. Upgraded sensors and lidar mapping allow it to remember your space, skip junk, and schedule itself without a fuss. It makes decisions without being micromanaged.

Managers, take note: This is the dream hire. Self-starting, low-drama, and dependable AF.

Where recruiting comes in: We see too many businesses over-index on tech skills and underplay autonomy. But skills change. Autonomy scales.

Build a hiring rubric that not only tests technical firepower, but also probes:

• How they handle ambiguity
• When they ask permission vs seek forgiveness
• How they self-direct under pressure

Great tech hires should be less like command-and-control bots… and more like your well-trained Saros 20: smart enough to roam freely but clean up without you watching.

Tidy Operations: Self-Emptying as Efficiency

Saros 20 self-empties into a bin that can go 7 weeks without needing attention. That’s not just convenient—it’s infrastructure-level optimisation.

Apply that mindset to your team:

What’s clogging your people’s time that could be automated or reworked?

Think:

• On-call rotations eating into engineering energy
• Manual data sanitation eating up analyst hours
• Your Head of Cyber writing sweaty vendor comparison docs in Notion… again

Your most expensive talent should be solving meaty problems, not emptying their own bins (literally or emotionally).

Not Just ‘Better’—Multiplicatively Smarter

Here’s the kicker: each improvement in the Saros 20—power, autonomy, endurance—doesn’t just stack. It compounds. The result? A vacuum that out-thinks and out-cleans its predecessor, with less oversight and stress.

Now imagine your next hire working like that.

Or better still, your next 5.

Here’s how to channel your inner Saros 20:

• Hire with intent: Don’t just solve for today’s gap—recruit for where you want to be in 18 months.
• Prioritise autonomy: Skills fade, tools change. Self-initiating talent persists.
• Remove friction: Let your people do high-leverage work, not low-grade admin. Systems matter.

The Takeaway: Upgrade Like Your Business Depends On It

The Saros 20 didn’t reinvent cleaning. It made smart, well-chosen upgrades that turned competent into category-defining.

Your team can do the same.

Don’t accept “good enough” employees, systems or processes. Stuff that merely ticks along won’t scale. You need hires who’ll glide through chaos and clear the path forward—quietly, brilliantly, without asking every five minutes where the bin is.

Want some help finding your next Saros 20-type hire? You know where to find me.

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