Jalisco (JAL), Mexico
AI development for Guadalajara teams, on your working day
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. We have no office in Guadalajara and nobody on the ground there. What we do have is 6 hours of your working day, every working day, which is enough to review, pair and fix things while you are still at your desk.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Guadalajara, Mexico
- your clock
- UTC-06:00 (America/Mexico_City)
- overlap
- 6 hours a day, 09:00-15:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Guadalajara
6 hours of your day, every working day
Guadalajara runs 2 hours ahead of Vancouver. On a normal working day the two calendars overlap from 09:00 to 15:00 Vancouver time, which is 11:00 to 17:00 where you are.
That is enough overlap to work the way a colocated team does. Pull requests get reviewed the hour they land, a design question gets settled on a call instead of in a thread, and an incident at your end finds somebody awake at ours.
The parts that still get written down are written down anyway: acceptance criteria, the decision log, and what changed in each weekly increment. A shared clock is not an excuse for an undocumented project.
What Guadalajara buyers usually bring us
The record for Guadalajara lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
electronics manufacturing
Yield data lives in reports and process changes live in email. Indexing them together is what turns a recurring defect into a searchable history.
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
software development
Test generation is the usual first wedge: low risk, easy to measure, and it exposes exactly where the codebase is illegible to an agent.
We prove one wedge and then widen it. Rewriting the whole practice on day one is how these efforts die.
Closest service line: Codebase and team optimization
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in US dollars. Under USMCA, cross-border services contracting between our two countries is routine, and the paperwork is not the hard part.
Past that, the mechanics are ordinary. A scoping call, a written scope, weekly increments, and an invoice that matches what shipped. The one thing distance changes is when in your day the questions arrive.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Guadalajara 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 North America
If you are comparing markets, these are the other North America entries in the record set.
Start a project
Say what you are trying to build and what has already been tried. The reply is from a senior engineer, and it will tell you if the shape of the work is wrong before it tells you anything else.