We have had the pleasure of having Benjamin Wiig with us as an intern alongside his studies at NTNU, and his contribution to Synlig.ai has genuinely made a difference.
What Benjamin worked on
One of the things we like best about being a small, AI-native company is that an intern is not put in a corner with a boring, repetitive task that may or may not have any relevance to their interests and knowledge. Benjamin has worked across the whole business, with real tasks and real customers, contributing in three areas that usually require three different profiles:
Sales and customer dialogue. Benjamin has held demos of the platform, explained our value proposition in customer meetings, and worked systematically to identify and contact potential new customers. Letting a student get that close to customers requires trust, and he managed it well: Prepared, curious and with a striking ability to explain AI visibility simply to people hearing about it for the first time.
Strategy. He has helped present the company to stakeholders and contributed to the discussions about the road ahead: Which markets we should prioritise, how we position ourselves, and how we tell the Synlig story in a way that lands. Fresh eyes on those questions are underrated, and Benjamin asks good, original questions that push the work forward.
Development. Earlier this year, Benjamin built an MCP server for Synlig, the connection that lets our platform talk directly to AI assistants through ChatGPT apps and Claude connectors. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard that lets AI assistants use external tools, and for a company that lives off visibility in AI answers, being present inside the assistants themselves is a natural next step. That an intern built the foundation for it says a lot about him, and is genuinely impressive.
Why we work with students
We are an AI-native company. That does not just mean our product is about AI, but that we use AI in how we build, sell and work every single day. And if you work that way, students are extremely valuable: They are forward-leaning, genuinely curious about the technology, and they have not yet learned that things have "always been done" a certain way, which makes them original and creative.
It goes both ways. Benjamin has had the chance to try sales, strategy and development, with responsibility that is hard to get as a student in larger companies. And we have had his energy, curiosity and knowledge in our everyday work. That combination of hunger and willingness to learn is contagious, and it makes us better.
What an internship at Synlig can involve
With us, an internship can mean anything from holding customer demos and doing outbound sales, to working on market strategy and positioning, to helping develop code and building product-adjacent tools like MCP servers and AI integrations. What it becomes in practice depends mostly on what you are good at and what you want to learn.
If you are a student, interested in AI and want to work on something real customers actually use, we would love to hear from you. Send us a few words at post@synlig.ai.