Massachusetts (MA), United States
AI development for Boston teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between here and Boston there are 5 shared working hours a day. The engagement is designed against that number rather than against an assumption that everyone is online together.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Boston, 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 Boston
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Boston 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.
Use it for decisions, not status. Status is a document you can read at your own hour; a decision is the thing worth spending a live hour on, and there are only a few of those a week.
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 Boston buyers usually bring us
The record for Boston lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
biotech
Protocols, study reports and regulatory correspondence answer the same questions repeatedly. Structure-aware ingestion of the report format is most of the work.
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
higher education
Faculty and staff need the failure modes as much as the workflows, so sessions run on their own courses and repos and end with a written practice they keep.
The written notes stay with the team, and they are written to be edited rather than filed.
Closest service line: Training and enablement
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.
Past that, the mechanics are ordinary. A scoping call, a written scope, weekly increments, and an invoice that matches what shipped. The one thing distance changes is when in your day the questions arrive.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Boston 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
More entries from the United States list, each written the same way as this one.
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.