Florida (FL), United States
AI development for Miami teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between here and Miami 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
- Miami, 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 Miami
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Miami 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 Miami buyers usually bring us
The record for Miami lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
international trade
Tariff schedules, documentation rules and partner systems change per corridor, so the work is integration and validation rather than model selection.
Progress is counted in deployments rather than features, which is the only honest way to measure this kind of work.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
real estate
Leases, valuations and property data are the input, and the product that works reads the actual lease rather than summarizing a summary.
Model choice comes last. Tool boundaries, the data model and the failure path are settled before anybody argues about which provider to call.
Closest service line: AI products, built end to end
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 Miami changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Miami 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
If you are comparing markets, these are the other United States 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.