Forget everything you know
about internships
Real startup work from day one, not fake training.
Who we’re looking for
Pick the thing you’re genuinely good at. You don’t need all of it. One real strength is enough.
Marketing & Growth
You get how attention works and can put a new product in front of the right people.
Software Development
You can build and ship features, fix bugs, and make the product actually work.
Content Creator (On-Camera)
You’re comfortable being the face of the content we post.
Video Editing
You cut raw footage into short video people watch to the end.
Content Writing
You write copy, captions and posts that are clear and make people act.
Business Operations
You keep things organised, track what matters, and make the day-to-day run.
Customer Success
You look after the shops and customers on CutQ and keep them happy.
Business Development (Merchant Partnerships)
You can sit with a shop owner, explain CutQ, and sign them up.
The role, in plain terms
A founding-intern run at CutQ, part-time, a couple of months, real ownership from week one. Designed to sit alongside college.
~10-15 hrsa week2-3 monthspart-timeWhat you get
The stipend is ₹0 to start, we’re upfront about that. In return: a completion certificate, a real letter of recommendation for strong performers, credit on your portfolio, GitHub and LinkedIn where it fits, direct access to the founding team, and a genuine shot at joining the core team as an early employee.
Intern
CutQ’s vision: how big this can get
CutQ starts with one unglamorous problem: standing in line at a small shop. But the pattern behind it is everywhere. Any place with a counter, a token number, and a wait. Food stalls today; clinics, pharmacies, salons, and government counters tomorrow.
Every neighbourhood has dozens of these businesses, and almost none have any digital presence, not because they don’t need one, but because no one has built something simple enough for them to use. Swiggy and Zomato solved delivery. Nobody has solved the walk-in counter.
The real size of this isn’t “one food app.” It’s the operating layer for every small, in-person, queue-based business left out of India’s digital shift so far, and that gap exists in every town, not just one city. Getting there is unglamorous work first: onboarding shops one at a time, earning owners’ trust, proving the model before scaling it. That’s exactly the work this internship is built around.
Nobody has solved the walk-in counter. That’s the gap CutQ is built for.
- Real work, not trainingYou onboard shops, talk to owners, and ship things customers use, from week one. Real stakes, not simulated projects.
- Founding-team accessA direct line to the people making the decisions, and a front-row seat to how they get made.
- A path to the core teamStrong founding interns get hired as early employees. This internship is the on-ramp.
