Quebec (QC), Canada
AI development for Quebec City teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship builds AI products from Vancouver, British Columbia. There is no office in Quebec City, no local staff, and no local phone number. There is a 5-hour window each working day where decisions get made live, and a written record for the rest.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Quebec City, Canada
- your clock
- UTC-05:00 (America/Toronto)
- overlap
- 5 hours a day, 09:00-14:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Quebec City
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Quebec City 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.
Inside it: the standup, the demo, and any decision that needs two people to agree in real time. Outside it: the build, the review comments, and the written answer to the question you asked at the top of your day.
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 Quebec City buyers usually bring us
The record for Quebec City lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
public administration
Legislation, guidance and internal procedure answer most questions, provided retrieval quotes the passage and shows which version it came from.
Hybrid search beats embeddings alone in nearly every corpus we have opened, and metadata filters behave as hard constraints or they are not filters.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
insurance
Policy wordings, endorsements and claims files need clause-level retrieval with the version and jurisdiction pinned, or the answer is guesswork with a citation.
The golden-question set is the deliverable nobody thinks to ask for, and it is the only way to show that a change helped.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
This is a domestic engagement. Invoices are in Canadian dollars, the contract is Canadian, and nothing crosses a border on the way to you or on the way back.
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 Quebec City changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Quebec City 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 Canada
Where else the same work happens in Canada, with the numbers redone per market.
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