Louisiana (LA), United States
AI development for New Orleans teams, on your working day
Vancouver, British Columbia is where the work gets done, and New Orleans is one of the markets it gets done for. Nobody from this shop sits in New Orleans. The 6-hour daily overlap is what makes that a detail rather than a problem.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- New Orleans, 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 New Orleans
6 hours of your day, every working day
New Orleans 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.
That is enough overlap to work the way a colocated team does. Pull requests get reviewed the hour they land, a design question gets settled on a call instead of in a thread, and an incident at your end finds somebody awake at ours.
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 New Orleans buyers usually bring us
The record for New Orleans lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
shipping
Vessel systems, port calls and documentation flows each need their own integration, built against live data and real timeouts.
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
energy
Operational data is high volume and low tolerance for a wrong answer, so the eval harness and the fallback behaviour get built before the interface.
We ship something narrow early and widen it, because scope found in production costs less than scope argued about in a document.
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.
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, New Orleans 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.