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Welcome Back

We're excited to place you with another Lightner to help lighten your workload. For ideas & use cases, click here. And if there's anything else you need, email us at team@lightn.co or text 631.885.2860

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How it works

What's Lightn?
Lightn helps you easily send small projects (generally 5-30 hours) to incredibly smart, responsible college students. In minutes. So you can get your time back, be less stressed at work, and focus on the big stuff.

How does it work?.It's fast & simple:
Step 1: Briefly describe the project. Select some preferred skills, estimate the hours needed, and set a deadline.
Steph 2: Get matched with a Lightner (a vetted, capable, competent college student) within 24hrs. You can approve or deny.
Step 3: Create a quick narrated screenshare that shows how to do the work. We recommend Loom. No meeting necessary 👍
Step 4: Get short, proactive updates each day without needing to ask.At the end of the project, you and your Lightner give each other a rating. We use ratings to make better matches, help Lightners improve, and keep the experience great for everyone.

Hmm...I still have more questions.
Check out the FAQs or drop us a note at team@lightn.co

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Pricing

We believe in simple, straightforward, transparent pricing.Lightners are always a flat $22/hour.• $16/hour goes to the student Lightner
• $6/hour goes to Lightn for vetting, matching, coordination, easy payment processing, and the Lightn Guarantee, which ensures a full refund if you're ever unhappy with the work.With the Lightn Guarantee, there's no risk to getting started.

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For Students

Hey! Nice to meet you. Lightn matches college students and recent grads with short-term projects. Always paid ($16/hr), and always for managers we've vetted and would 100% work for.If you'd like to get matched, drop your info here and share a bit more about what interests you. It should take less than 60 seconds.

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Protecting Your Data

Keeping confidential data safe & secure is Lightn's highest priority.Security is at our core, and we adhere to a 7-part commitment:1. We only source students who come recommended and pass our rigorous, proprietary vetting process.
2. We perform back-channel reference checks on all students.
3. Every Lightner signs an NDA with us that legally prohibits them from sharing or disclosing sensitive information.
4. If your company has security documents that interns are typically required to sign and abide by, you can require that of your Lightner.
5. Our team is happy to jump on Zoom to share best practices, and walk you through how to use tools like Dashlane & 1password that allow you to grant & remove access without sharing passwords.
6. We can arrange for sensitive work to be done and secure cloud workspaces with the sessions recorded.
7. We have a "One-Strike" policy; if a Lightner is careless with sensitive info and we hear about it, he or she is removed from the platform.We feel compelled to add that Lightn's "sweet spot" are small, simple tasks that (usually) don’t contain much sensitive information. If a particular project requires utmost levels of sensitivity & confidentiality, it may still make sense to keep it in-house.

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Hooray!

Thanks! Look out for an email from us soon connecting you to your Lightner. We're excited to get this rolling.If you need anything in the interim, or you need to back out, just email us at team@lightn.co or text us at 631.885.2860.

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Smart Use Cases

Here's some inspiration for how you can work with your Lightner:Have Better Data
• Consolidate user research notes into a presentation
• Sorting and tagging data based on qualitative criteria
• Cleaning up messy databases and spreadsheets
• Add data from customer emails into Salesforce/your CRMMore Customers & Partners
• Execute a PR reach-out campaign
• Social media content creation & updates
• Slice & dice data to analyze paid marketing campaignsHave Happier Customers
• Help onboard new customers
• Reply to basic customer support ticketsImprove Your Product
• Create initial designs, mockups, wireframes, and workflows
• Reaching out to users/customers to set up interviews
• Research and compile options in a comparison table
• Sort through completed tasks and compile release notes
• Perform the initial research on API documentation or integrationsHire Better, Faster
• Perform initial screen of applicants according to your requirementsFree Up Your Time
• Follow-up on a laundry list of "small tasks"
• Uploading your backlog of overdue receipts/expenses 🤑

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Contact

We're here for you every step of the way.
Send a note to team@lightn.co, or or drop us a note:

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