Telangana (TG), India
AI development for Hyderabad teams, handed over in writing
The desk is in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hyderabad is far enough around the world that our working days do not touch on the same date, which is a fact worth stating in the first paragraph rather than discovering in week two. The work is handed over in writing instead.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Hyderabad, India
- your clock
- UTC+05:30 (Asia/Kolkata)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Hyderabad
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Hyderabad is 13.5 hours ahead of Vancouver. When we start at 09:00 it is 22:30 on the same day for you, and when we stop at 17:00 it is 06:30 on the next day. On the same calendar date there is no hour where both sides are at work.
That is not an apology. A loop that turns once every twenty-four hours, in writing, is a faster way to build software than a calendar full of half-attended calls, and it forces the decisions into a form somebody can read six months later.
- The Vancouver day ends with a written summary: shipped, broken, blocked, and the one thing we need you to decide.
- That summary is waiting at 06:30 your time, alongside the diffs it refers to.
- The decision log lives in the repository rather than in a chat thread, so it is still readable a year later.
- Anything that would block us gets asked as a proposal you can approve in a sentence, not as an open question.
One live call a week, and it is scheduled honestly: 19:30 in Vancouver is 09:00 in Hyderabad on the next day. 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 Hyderabad buyers usually bring us
The record for Hyderabad lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
pharmaceuticals
Regulatory documents and study reports have strict structure and strict traceability, so parsing that structure is the bulk of the schedule.
Answers cite the passage they came from. A retrieval system without span-level citation gets used twice and then quietly abandoned.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
software services
Teams here ship in someone else s codebase every week, which makes a portable practice worth more than any single tool rollout.
A block of sessions across a few weeks beats one long day, because the practice needs real work in between sittings.
Closest service line: Training and enablement
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in US dollars. Contracting with a Canadian vendor is common enough that your finance team will have the paperwork pattern already.
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, Hyderabad 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 India
Each one has its own page, its own overlap arithmetic and its own industries.
Start a project
Send the problem rather than a job spec. You get an answer on scope, timeline and whether we are the right shop, written by the person who would do the work.