Ontario (ON), Canada
AI development for Kitchener-Waterloo teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between here and Kitchener-Waterloo there are 5 shared working hours a day. The engagement is designed against that number rather than against an assumption that everyone is online together.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
- your clock
- UTC-05:00 (America/Toronto)
- overlap
- 5 hours a day, 09:00-14:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Kitchener-Waterloo
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Kitchener-Waterloo 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.
The window is best spent where being live actually helps: a design argument, an eval review, a scope cut. Progress reporting is a document, and a document does not need both of us awake.
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 Kitchener-Waterloo buyers usually bring us
The record for Kitchener-Waterloo lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
software
The repo is the constraint on how much AI-assisted work you keep. Context files, scoped rules and checks the agent can run itself come first.
It opens with an audit of where AI already helps in your repository and where it produces work your reviewers throw away.
Closest service line: Codebase and team optimization
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.
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
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
This is a domestic engagement. Invoices are in Canadian dollars, the contract is Canadian, and nothing crosses a border on the way to you or on the way back.
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 Kitchener-Waterloo changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Kitchener-Waterloo 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 Canada
If you are comparing markets, these are the other Canada entries in the record set.
Start a project
Describe what is broken or what you want built. The reply comes from the engineer who would build it, and it covers scope, timeline and fit before anything else.