Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia
AI development for Canberra teams, handed over in writing
We build AI products from Vancouver, British Columbia, and we work with Canberra teams without a single shared working hour. No office there, no staff there. What replaces the shared day is a written handoff, decisions logged as they are made, and review that happens on your morning rather than in a call.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Canberra, Australia
- your clock
- UTC+10:00 (Australia/Sydney)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Canberra
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Canberra 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.
- Everything built during our day lands in one written note before we close the laptop. No status meeting stands in for it.
- Your morning starts with that note and a set of pull requests to review, which is a better start than a calendar invitation.
- Every decision worth arguing about is written down where the code is, with the reasoning and the date attached.
- Questions come with a recommendation, because a question that needs a reply before work continues costs a full day here.
One live call a week, and it is scheduled honestly: 15:00 in Vancouver is 09:00 in Canberra 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 Canberra buyers usually bring us
The record for Canberra lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
public administration
Legislation, guidance and internal procedure answer most questions, provided retrieval quotes the passage and shows which version it came from.
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
cybersecurity
Security teams want agent output they can review line by line, which means small diffs, checks the agent runs itself, and rules scoped per path.
Test generation is the usual first wedge: high value, low risk, and it shows exactly which parts of the codebase an agent cannot read.
Closest service line: Codebase and team optimization
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, Canberra 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
Same treatment, different clocks, and in some cases a different answer.
Start a project
Send the problem. If it is a fit, you get scope and a timeline. If it is not, you get told that in the first reply instead of after a discovery process.