This project was part of SaasFlash's hiring assignment for the role of Senior Creative Writer.
Below mentioned as the assignment details.
Video of the founders talking about the company and role.
Video of the founders talking about the company and role.
(tl;dr we should feel like “wait, that’s actually smart”)
Assignment Task:
- Come up with 3 ideas and a quick blurb for each.
- Why you picked it up
- What you’re thinking around that idea
- What insights or pov you will add
- How you’ll structure it overall
- Pick 1 idea from it and write a proper script for that one.
- This is sample script (we’ve first draft, final cooked version and insta look for it)
- Make sure it’s script and not blog (yeah!)
- Add visuals against every line and try to come up your visuals please (no chatgpt dump - look at current vids on saasflash page)
- For 3 ideas:
- 1 or 2 should be based on something recent (like openai acquiring windsurf)
- Remaining should be timeless (non-news, but interesting)
How we’ll evaluate you:
Your point of view or research (4 points)
- This is the most important part.
- We don’t want to be a news channel or drop surface level info.
- For example, you can make a meme when chatgpt acquired windsurf “lol they couldn’t build windsurf with their AI models”
- Or you can say, they acquired windsurf for customers (obvious one)
- But we wanna go deep and tell, that real reason behind $3b is not for customers but years of data labelling and training infra that windsurf has does
- Basically bring the non-obvious truth to the surface. - Or there has to be your point of view.
- Something we did for a Naval video. chatgpt didn’t give us that. we built it with proper rationale.
- Over here you might be right or wrong.
- But do you have a good rationale behind it?
- Your script should atleast have 1, and if it has both then you get 2 bonus point
Visuals you thought (2 points)
- This is for insta. it should feel & look like a script and not a blog (why even I’m writing this?)
- Add what visuals you’ve thought while writing that particular sentence.
- Your script should feel like a storyboard.
- Write enough and let the visuals do the rest (do check comment over here)
- For visuals we have the world’s best editors and we r hiring more,
Overall flow (2 points)
- Should feel like a friend talking.
- The writing should just flow. should be tight, clear and no fluff.
- Like don’t make it boring
Writing (2 points)
- PLEASE don’t make it sound like AI. we are in the arena so we can smell from mile
- And even if you write with help of AI (which you should) but don’t make it obvious
- Give smart and relevant analogies
- We’re writing for founders and operators and they should feel like “oh wow”
Finally,
- If you writing is amazing but your research is meh or there is no concrete pov then it’s auto reject
- If you submit an assignment then at least we promise you that we'll not ghost you.
- And just vibe while writing