California (CA), United States
AI development for Sacramento teams, on your working day
Magic Ship is one shop in Vancouver, British Columbia, working remotely with clients in Sacramento. No local address, no local number, and no pretence otherwise. The overlap does the work an office would have done: 8 hours a day, live.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Sacramento, United States
- your clock
- UTC-08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
- overlap
- 8 hours a day, 09:00-17:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Sacramento
8 hours of your day, every working day
Sacramento runs on the same clock as Vancouver. On a normal working day the two calendars overlap from 09:00 to 17:00 Vancouver time, which is 09:00 to 17:00 where you are.
With a window like that, most decisions never become documents. We review together, we cut scope together, and the written record exists for the archive rather than as the only channel.
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 Sacramento buyers usually bring us
The record for Sacramento 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
health care
Clinical and administrative documents demand citation and access control at retrieval time, not a disclaimer at the bottom of the answer.
Most retrieval failures are ingestion failures, so the early weeks go into parsing and chunking rather than into rewording a prompt.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
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, Sacramento 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
More entries from the United States list, each written the same way as this one.
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