New Jersey (NJ), United States
AI development for Newark teams, inside your afternoon
We are an AI development agency based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Newark clients get a remote engagement with a real, bounded overlap: 5 hours a day when both sides are awake and working. Everything that does not fit in it moves to writing, deliberately.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Newark, 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 Newark
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Newark 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.
A partial overlap punishes projects that run on meetings and rewards ones that run on written acceptance criteria. We build for the second kind, which is how we would run it anyway.
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 Newark buyers usually bring us
The record for Newark lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
port logistics
Terminal systems, vessel schedules and customs data have to be integrated per port, with rules expressed as typed tools rather than prose.
Reconciliation and idempotency are designed in at the start, because retrofitting them after the first duplicate transaction is expensive.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
telecommunications
Network inventory, provisioning and billing systems are the integration surface, and each one has retry semantics that a prompt cannot express.
Without a rule about what goes back into the platform, this work becomes a treadmill, so that rule is agreed at the first account.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
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.
Beyond that, the shape of an engagement does not change with distance: a scoping call, a thin end-to-end slice, then weekly increments against acceptance criteria fixed in advance. If we are not the right shop for Newark work, you get told that in the first reply rather than after a proposal.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Newark 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
Same treatment, different clocks, and in some cases a different answer.
Start a project
Send the problem rather than a job spec. You get an answer on scope, timeline and whether we are the right shop, written by the person who would do the work.