AI Content Intern

About Surface Labs

Surface Labs is an applied AI lab building AI-native infrastructure for B2B go-to-market teams. We operate two products today:

• Lead Operations Center — unifies lead capture, qualification, routing, follow-ups, and long-term nurture so marketers spend 80% less time on manual ops and more time converting leads into revenue.
• Content Operations Center — AEO/GEO monitoring, AI search visibility tracking, and AI-powered content pipelines that help B2B brands dominate ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot results.

We're live in production with Surface AI agents processing 50K+ leads monthly, are backed by YC/Garry Tan and Dharmesh Shah (co-founder of HubSpot), and just doubled our team size in the last 2 months across Engineering, Design, and GTM.

The Role

You'll write blogs for Surface Labs. That's it. No code, no meetings, no BS.

Every blog you write that we publish on our website = you get paid. The better the blog performs — AEO visibility, traffic, pipeline influenced — the more you get paid.

You'll learn how modern AI-search content works in real time — what gets cited by AI engines, what doesn't, and how to write for a world where Google is dying. By the end of the internship, you'll be one of maybe 500 people on Earth who actually know how to write AEO content that ranks.

What You'll Actually Do

• Write 5-10 blog posts per week for withsurface.com on topics we assign (B2B marketing, lead ops, AEO, AI-native GTM)
• Use our 5-change AEO formula to optimize every blog for AI search visibility
• Track how your blogs perform across our PromptWatch system (147 monitored prompts across ChatGPT/Gemini/Perplexity/Copilot)
• Iterate based on what ranks and what doesn't

No code. No engineering. Just sharp writing + AEO discipline.

Who You Are

• Based in the US (SF Bay Area preferred) or India (any city)
• Can write clear, punchy English (B2B or consumer, both work — show us samples)
• Curious about AEO/GEO and where search is headed (or hungry to learn)
• Can take a topic and turn it into a 1,500-word blog in a day
• Meets deadlines, takes feedback fast, doesn't need hand-holding
• Students, recent grads, career switchers, freelance writers — all welcome

Bonus: You've already published blogs somewhere, built a newsletter, run SEO, or written on LinkedIn/Medium/Substack.

Comp

Simple. Performance-based. Uncapped.

US-based writers: $200–$500 per blog published on withsurface.com Rate depends on quality, length, and AEO performance. Top writers shipping 5-10 blogs/week earn $140K–$220K/year.

India-based writers: ₹3,000–₹15,000 per blog published on withsurface.com Rate depends on quality, length, and AEO performance. Top writers shipping 3–4 blogs/week earn ₹140K–₹190K/month.

Strong writers convert to full-time Content roles with equity (0.01%–0.1%) at the end of the 3-month internship.

Perks

• Fully remote (work from anywhere in the US or India)
• Work whenever you want — we only care about output
• Direct feedback from our CEO (Saharsh) on every blog
• Your name on every blog you publish — real bylines on a YC-backed company site
• Real portfolio builder: by month 3 you'll have 20+ published blogs with traffic data
• International team off-sites if you convert to full-time

How to Apply

No LinkedIn DMs. No emails. Discord only.

1. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/eKpcqkFW9X
2. Post in #content-intern-applications with:
   • Your name + city
   • 2 writing samples (links to blogs, LinkedIn posts, newsletters, anything you've written)
   • 1 paragraph: why Surface Labs + what topic you'd pitch for your first blog
   • 1 weird/unexpected thing about you

Good applications get a reply within 48 hours.

Interview Timeline (2 weeks, end-to-end)

Day 1–2: You apply in Discord

Day 3–4: We review + reply in Discord. If it's a yes, we assign you the paid trial.

Day 5–10: Paid Trial Blog — we assign you a topic, you write a 1,500-word AEO-optimized blog in 5 days. You get paid the base rate ($200 US / ₹3,000 India) whether we hire you or not.

Day 11–14: Final Conversation (30 min) on Discord voice — we review your trial blog, discuss ongoing volume, confirm rates. Offer out same day if it's a yes.