Georgia (GA), United States
AI development for Atlanta teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia, working remotely with teams in Atlanta. We are not in Atlanta and we will not pretend to be. Your day and ours meet for 5 hours, and the engagement is built around that window rather than around wishing it were longer.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Atlanta, United States
- your clock
- UTC-05:00 (America/New_York)
- overlap
- 5 hours a day, 09:00-14:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Atlanta
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Atlanta sits 3 hours ahead of Vancouver, so the shared part of the day runs 09:00 to 14:00 our time and 12:00 to 17:00 yours.
The window is best spent where being live actually helps: a design argument, an eval review, a scope cut. Progress reporting is a document, and a document does not need both of us awake.
What moves to writing is not a downgrade. A daily handoff note at the end of the Vancouver day, decisions logged when they are made, and review on the pull request itself means your morning starts with the answer rather than with a meeting invitation.
What Atlanta buyers usually bring us
The record for Atlanta lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
payments processing
Auth, settlement and dispute flows are the integration surface, and every one of them has failure modes that only show up under production volume.
Progress is counted in deployments rather than features, which is the only honest way to measure this kind of work.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
logistics
Carrier APIs, warehouse systems and customer portals all break differently under load, which is why the integration work is the project.
Every integration ships with its failure path written down: what retries, what alerts, and what a human is expected to look at.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in US dollars. A US buyer engaging a Canadian company is routine, and the form your accounts team will ask for is a W-8BEN-E, which we have ready before the first invoice.
The commercial part stays deliberately boring. Fixed acceptance criteria per increment, weekly shipping, and a written record of every decision. Nothing about working from Vancouver instead of Atlanta changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Atlanta included. Most engagements are one of them, sometimes two.
- AI products, built end to end
- Knowledge bases and retrieval
- Codebase and team optimization
- Training and enablement
- Forward-deployed engineering
The languages, models and infrastructure underneath all five are listed on the Magic Ship stack page, with what each one is good for and where it is the wrong choice.
Other markets in United States
Where else the same work happens in United States, with the numbers redone per market.
Start a project
Describe what is broken or what you want built. The reply comes from the engineer who would build it, and it covers scope, timeline and fit before anything else.