Uusimaa, Finland
AI development for Helsinki teams, handed over in writing
Magic Ship is one shop in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between Vancouver and Helsinki 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
- Helsinki, Finland
- your clock
- UTC+02:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Helsinki
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Helsinki is 10 hours ahead of Vancouver. When we start at 09:00 it is 19:00 on the same day for you, and when we stop at 17:00 it is 03:00 on the next day. On the same calendar date there is no hour where both sides are at work.
Removing the shared hour removes the interruptions with it. A full Vancouver day of uninterrupted build time, handed over in writing, tends to move a project further than a day punctuated by four calls.
- A handoff note goes out at the end of every Vancouver working day: what shipped, what broke, and what needs a decision from you.
- You read it at 03:00, or whenever your day starts, and review the pull requests it points at.
- Decisions are logged as they are made, in the repository, so neither side has to reconstruct why something was done.
- A blocking question arrives with a proposed answer attached, so the default outcome is progress rather than a stalled day.
One live call a week, and it is scheduled honestly: 07:00 in Vancouver is 17:00 in Helsinki. That hour is outside our working day and inside yours. We take the awkward end of it, because it is our job to be reachable.
What Helsinki buyers usually bring us
The record for Helsinki lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
mobile games
Live-ops data and player support volume are the two places AI pays for itself, and both need evals built from real sessions rather than sample prompts.
The first slice is thin and runs end to end: one real workflow, one real data source, and an agent with tools that change something rather than describe it.
Closest service line: AI products, built end to end
telecommunications
Network inventory, provisioning and billing systems are the integration surface, and each one has retry semantics that a prompt cannot express.
Every integration ships with its failure path written down: what retries, what alerts, and what a human is expected to look at.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in euros. 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.
The commercial part stays deliberately boring. Fixed acceptance criteria per increment, weekly shipping, and a written record of every decision. Nothing about working from Vancouver instead of Helsinki changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Helsinki 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
Where else the same work happens in Europe, with the numbers redone per market.
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.