Hawaii (HI), United States
AI development for Honolulu teams, on your working day
We build AI products from Vancouver, British Columbia, and we work with Honolulu teams remotely. There is no Honolulu office and there never has been. The reason the arrangement works anyway is arithmetic: 6 shared hours a day is most of a working day.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Honolulu, United States
- your clock
- UTC-10:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
- overlap
- 6 hours a day, 11:00-17:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Honolulu
6 hours of your day, every working day
Honolulu runs 2 hours behind Vancouver. On a normal working day the two calendars overlap from 11:00 to 17:00 Vancouver time, which is 09:00 to 15:00 where you are.
A window that size means questions get answered while they still matter. Nobody sits on a blocker overnight, and a bad assumption gets caught in the hour it was made rather than in the following sprint.
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 Honolulu buyers usually bring us
The record for Honolulu lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
tourism
Availability, pricing and local knowledge have to come from your systems, because a model that improvises an opening time creates a support ticket.
We ship something narrow early and widen it, because scope found in production costs less than scope argued about in a document.
Closest service line: AI products, built end to end
defense
Requirements documents and compliance evidence need retrieval that cites the paragraph, plus deployment inside your own boundary rather than ours.
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
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, Honolulu 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
More of United States, all of it worked remotely from Vancouver.
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.