Missouri (MO), United States
AI development for Kansas City teams, on your working day
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. We have no office in Kansas City 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
- Kansas City, United States
- your clock
- UTC-06:00 (America/Chicago)
- overlap
- 6 hours a day, 09:00-15:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Kansas City
6 hours of your day, every working day
Kansas City 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.
Practically, it means your team can treat us as another desk in the building for most of the day: same standup, same review queue, same afternoon scramble when something breaks.
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 Kansas City buyers usually bring us
The record for Kansas City lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
animal health
Label claims and dosing tables are regulated text. Retrieval has to cite the source line, and the golden questions get written by the people who sign off on them.
Recall gets measured before anybody comments on the wording, because a fluent answer drawn from the wrong passage is the worst outcome on offer.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
logistics
Carrier APIs, warehouse systems and customer portals all break differently under load, which is why the integration work is the project.
Reconciliation and idempotency are designed in at the start, because retrofitting them after the first duplicate transaction is expensive.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
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 downstream of that is deliberately unremarkable. Fixed acceptance criteria, weekly shipping, a written decision log, and a first reply that tells you if Kansas City work of this shape is not something we should take.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Kansas City 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
Where else the same work happens in United States, with the numbers redone per market.
Start a project
Tell us what you are trying to build. A senior engineer reads every message and answers on scope, timeline and fit. If your problem is not one we should take, that is the first thing you will hear.