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AI development for Buffalo teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between here and Buffalo 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
- Buffalo, 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 Buffalo
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Buffalo 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 Buffalo buyers usually bring us
The record for Buffalo lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
advanced manufacturing
Work instructions, tolerance specs and supplier drawings sit in scanned PDFs, so parsing and chunking decide whether a process engineer ever gets an answer back.
Recall gets measured before anybody comments on the wording, because a fluent answer drawn from the wrong passage is the worst outcome on offer.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
health care
Clinical and administrative documents demand citation and access control at retrieval time, not a disclaimer at the bottom of the answer.
Hybrid search beats embeddings alone in nearly every corpus we have opened, and metadata filters behave as hard constraints or they are not filters.
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.
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 Buffalo changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Buffalo 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
If you are comparing markets, these are the other United States entries in the record set.
Start a project
Tell us what you are trying to build. A senior engineer reads every message and answers on scope, timeline and fit. If your problem is not one we should take, that is the first thing you will hear.