Lima, Peru
AI development for Lima teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between here and Lima 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
- Lima, Peru
- your clock
- UTC-05:00 (America/Lima)
- overlap
- 5 hours a day, 09:00-14:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Lima
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Lima 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 Lima buyers usually bring us
The record for Lima lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
mining
Geological reports, drill data and plant telemetry describe the same orebody in three formats, and the product is what makes them agree.
Week one puts something running in your environment against real state, because an agent that can only talk teaches nobody anything about the hard part.
Closest service line: AI products, built end to end
agricultural exports
Every buyer country wants different inspection and shipping paperwork. That is integration work against real formats, not something prompting fixes.
Business rules become typed tools with explicit contracts, because a rule that lives in a prompt is a rule that drifts.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in US dollars. The engagement is remote and the contract is in English, with delivery measured in shipped increments.
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 Lima changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Lima 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 South America
If you are comparing markets, these are the other South America 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.