Lesser Poland (MA), Poland
AI development for Krakow teams, handed over in writing
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia, with no presence in Krakow and no shared working hours with it. What that buys you is a full day of build time delivered as a written handoff, waiting when you sit down.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Krakow, Poland
- your clock
- UTC+01:00 (Europe/Warsaw)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Krakow
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Krakow is 9 hours ahead of Vancouver. When we start at 09:00 it is 18:00 on the same day for you, and when we stop at 17:00 it is 02:00 on the next day. On the same calendar date there is no hour where both sides are at work.
Treated properly it is the better arrangement. Nobody blocks on a meeting, every decision exists as text with a date on it, and the work moves while the other side sleeps instead of while the other side waits.
- Everything built during our day lands in one written note before we close the laptop. No status meeting stands in for it.
- Your morning starts with that note and a set of pull requests to review, which is a better start than a calendar invitation.
- Every decision worth arguing about is written down where the code is, with the reasoning and the date attached.
- Questions come with a recommendation, because a question that needs a reply before work continues costs a full day here.
One live call a week, and it is scheduled honestly: 08:00 in Vancouver is 17:00 in Krakow. 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 Krakow buyers usually bring us
The record for Krakow lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
software outsourcing
Delivery quality is the product, so training runs on client repos with the review standard fixed in advance and the failure modes written down.
Sessions run on your codebase, your tickets and your constraints. A vendor demo teaches nothing that survives the following Monday.
Closest service line: Training and enablement
business services
The people doing the work know where the time goes. Teaching them to drive the tools on their own files beats a platform rollout nobody asked for.
It usually pairs with the codebase work, because training sticks once the repository has already been made legible to an agent.
Closest service line: Training and enablement
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in euros or US dollars. GDPR makes storage location a design question rather than a footnote, so the index, the logs and the model calls get pinned to European regions where your provider offers them, and that is settled in week one.
Past that, the mechanics are ordinary. A scoping call, a written scope, weekly increments, and an invoice that matches what shipped. The one thing distance changes is when in your day the questions arrive.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Krakow 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 Europe
If you are comparing markets, these are the other Europe entries in the record set.
Start a project
Say what you are trying to build and what has already been tried. The reply is from a senior engineer, and it will tell you if the shape of the work is wrong before it tells you anything else.