Queensland (QLD), Australia
AI development for Brisbane teams, handed over in writing
One shop, Vancouver, British Columbia. Brisbane sits on the other side of a full day, so nothing about this engagement runs on meetings. It runs on written handoffs, logged decisions and review that happens while the other side is asleep.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Brisbane, Australia
- your clock
- UTC+10:00 (Australia/Brisbane)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Brisbane
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Brisbane is 18 hours ahead of Vancouver. When we start at 09:00 it is 03:00 on the next day for you, and when we stop at 17:00 it is 11:00 on the next day. On the same calendar date there is no hour where both sides are at work.
That is not an apology. A loop that turns once every twenty-four hours, in writing, is a faster way to build software than a calendar full of half-attended calls, and it forces the decisions into a form somebody can read six months later.
- The Vancouver day ends with a written summary: shipped, broken, blocked, and the one thing we need you to decide.
- That summary is waiting at 11:00 your time, alongside the diffs it refers to.
- The decision log lives in the repository rather than in a chat thread, so it is still readable a year later.
- Anything that would block us gets asked as a proposal you can approve in a sentence, not as an open question.
One live call a week, and it is scheduled honestly: 15:00 in Vancouver is 09:00 in Brisbane on the next day. Neither side takes a bad hour for that one. The call simply lands on two different calendar dates, which is a scheduling detail rather than a hardship.
What Brisbane buyers usually bring us
The record for Brisbane lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
mining services
Client sites each run different fleet and plant software, so the pattern is embedded engineering per site with the recurring pieces pushed back into the platform.
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
logistics
Carrier APIs, warehouse systems and customer portals all break differently under load, which is why the integration work is the project.
We work embedded with your team, or with your customer teams, and the unit of delivery is a deployment rather than a document.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in Australian or US dollars. The engagement crosses a border and a date line, so payment terms and delivery dates are written with the date offset spelled out.
The rest is the same everywhere: we scope it, we build a thin slice against your real data, and we hand back something your own team can maintain. No retainer you cannot cancel and no seat licences.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Brisbane 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 Australia
More of Australia, all of it worked remotely from Vancouver.
Start a project
Write down the problem in whatever form you have it. You get a straight answer about scope, timeline and whether this is work we should be doing at all.