Florida (FL), United States
AI development for Jacksonville teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship builds AI products from Vancouver, British Columbia. There is no office in Jacksonville, no local staff, and no local phone number. There is a 5-hour window each working day where decisions get made live, and a written record for the rest.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Jacksonville, United States
- your clock
- UTC-05:00 (America/New_York)
- overlap
- 5 hours a day, 09:00-14:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Jacksonville
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Jacksonville sits 3 hours ahead of Vancouver, so the shared part of the day runs 09:00 to 14:00 our time and 12:00 to 17:00 yours.
Inside it: the standup, the demo, and any decision that needs two people to agree in real time. Outside it: the build, the review comments, and the written answer to the question you asked at the top of your day.
What moves to writing is not a downgrade. A daily handoff note at the end of the Vancouver day, decisions logged when they are made, and review on the pull request itself means your morning starts with the answer rather than with a meeting invitation.
What Jacksonville buyers usually bring us
The record for Jacksonville lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
logistics
Carrier APIs, warehouse systems and customer portals all break differently under load, which is why the integration work is the project.
Recurring patterns get pushed back into your platform, so the next account receives a supported capability rather than another one-off.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
insurance
Policy wordings, endorsements and claims files need clause-level retrieval with the version and jurisdiction pinned, or the answer is guesswork with a citation.
It starts with your documents and your own analysts writing the questions the system has to get right before anyone will trust it.
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.
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 Jacksonville changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Jacksonville 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 entries from the United States list, each written the same way as this one.
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