Ireland, Ireland
AI development for Galway teams, handed over in writing
Magic Ship is one shop in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between Vancouver and Galway there is no same-day overlap to sell you, so the engagement is built the other way around: everything that matters is written down, and the day you start is the day after ours finished.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Galway, Ireland
- your clock
- UTC+00:00 (Europe/Dublin)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Galway
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Galway is 8 hours ahead of Vancouver. When we start at 09:00 it is 17:00 on the same day for you, and when we stop at 17:00 it is 01:00 on the next day. On the same calendar date there is no hour where both sides are at work.
Treated properly it is the better arrangement. Nobody blocks on a meeting, every decision exists as text with a date on it, and the work moves while the other side sleeps instead of while the other side waits.
- 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: 09:00 in Vancouver is 17:00 in Galway. 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 Galway buyers usually bring us
The record for Galway lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
medical devices
Design history files and regulatory submissions have to be traceable end to end, so retrieval carries the document identifier and the revision.
Chunking follows the structure of the document instead of a character count, which is the whole difference between a useful index and an expensive one.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
higher education
Faculty and staff need the failure modes as much as the workflows, so sessions run on their own courses and repos and end with a written practice they keep.
The measure is what the team does two months later, not the feedback form at the end of the afternoon.
Closest service line: Training and enablement
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in euros or US dollars. GDPR makes storage location a design question rather than a footnote, so the index, the logs and the model calls get pinned to European regions where your provider offers them, and that is settled in week one.
Everything downstream of that is deliberately unremarkable. Fixed acceptance criteria, weekly shipping, a written decision log, and a first reply that tells you if Galway work of this shape is not something we should take.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Galway 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 Europe
More entries from the Europe list, each written the same way as this one.
Start a project
Describe what is broken or what you want built. The reply comes from the engineer who would build it, and it covers scope, timeline and fit before anything else.