Ohio (OH), United States
AI development for Cincinnati teams, inside your afternoon
We are in Vancouver, British Columbia. You are in Cincinnati. Nobody from this shop is, and nobody pretends to be. The two working days touch for 5 hours, and that window is spent on decisions rather than on status.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Cincinnati, 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 Cincinnati
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Cincinnati 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.
What we do not do is stretch that window by pretending either side works longer than it does. It is a fixed budget of shared hours a week, and it gets spent on purpose.
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 Cincinnati buyers usually bring us
The record for Cincinnati lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
consumer goods
Specifications, packaging artwork approvals and retailer requirements are scattered across teams. Retrieval with hard filters per retailer keeps answers correct.
Most retrieval failures are ingestion failures, so the early weeks go into parsing and chunking rather than into rewording a prompt.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
logistics
Carrier APIs, warehouse systems and customer portals all break differently under load, which is why the integration work is the project.
Business rules become typed tools with explicit contracts, because a rule that lives in a prompt is a rule that drifts.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
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.
Everything else is the same as it would be for a client down the street from us: scope, a thin slice in week one, then weekly increments you can stop at any time. The distance changes the schedule, not the contract.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Cincinnati 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
Same treatment, different clocks, and in some cases a different answer.
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.