Ohio (OH), United States
AI development for Columbus teams, inside your afternoon
We are an AI development agency based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Columbus clients get a remote engagement with a real, bounded overlap: 5 hours a day when both sides are awake and working. Everything that does not fit in it moves to writing, deliberately.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Columbus, 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 Columbus
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Columbus 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 Columbus buyers usually bring us
The record for Columbus lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
insurance
Policy wordings, endorsements and claims files need clause-level retrieval with the version and jurisdiction pinned, or the answer is guesswork with a citation.
Access rules apply inside the index at retrieval time, never as a filter bolted onto the answer after the fact.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
retail
Catalogue, inventory and returns data drive every useful answer, so the tool layer over those systems is built before anything conversational.
You get a running product with its own test suite and enough documentation for your team to take it over, not a prototype with our commit history in it.
Closest service line: AI products, built end to end
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.
Beyond that, the shape of an engagement does not change with distance: a scoping call, a thin end-to-end slice, then weekly increments against acceptance criteria fixed in advance. If we are not the right shop for Columbus work, you get told that in the first reply rather than after a proposal.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Columbus 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
Each one has its own page, its own overlap arithmetic and its own industries.
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.