Alabama (AL), United States
AI development for Birmingham teams, on your working day
An AI development agency, one desk, Vancouver, British Columbia. For Birmingham that means a remote engagement with an unusually generous overlap - 6 hours a day - and no story about a local presence that does not exist.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Birmingham, United States
- your clock
- UTC-06:00 (America/Chicago)
- overlap
- 6 hours a day, 09:00-15:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Birmingham
6 hours of your day, every working day
Birmingham runs 2 hours ahead of Vancouver. On a normal working day the two calendars overlap from 09:00 to 15:00 Vancouver time, which is 11:00 to 17:00 where you are.
A window that size means questions get answered while they still matter. Nobody sits on a blocker overnight, and a bad assumption gets caught in the hour it was made rather than in the following sprint.
The parts that still get written down are written down anyway: acceptance criteria, the decision log, and what changed in each weekly increment. A shared clock is not an excuse for an undocumented project.
What Birmingham buyers usually bring us
The record for Birmingham lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
health care
Clinical and administrative documents demand citation and access control at retrieval time, not a disclaimer at the bottom of the answer.
It starts with your documents and your own analysts writing the questions the system has to get right before anyone will trust it.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
banking
Policy documents, product terms and audit trails are the corpus, and an answer without a citation to the governing clause is worse than no answer at all.
Answers cite the passage they came from. A retrieval system without span-level citation gets used twice and then quietly abandoned.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
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.
Beyond that, the shape of an engagement does not change with distance: a scoping call, a thin end-to-end slice, then weekly increments against acceptance criteria fixed in advance. If we are not the right shop for Birmingham work, you get told that in the first reply rather than after a proposal.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Birmingham 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
Each one has its own page, its own overlap arithmetic and its own industries.
Start a project
Send the problem rather than a job spec. You get an answer on scope, timeline and whether we are the right shop, written by the person who would do the work.