New Brunswick (NB), Canada
AI development for Saint John teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between here and Saint John there are 4 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
- Saint John, Canada
- your clock
- UTC-04:00 (America/Moncton)
- overlap
- 4 hours a day, 09:00-13:00 in Vancouver
- presence
- remote only, no office in Saint John
What fits in a 4-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Saint John sits 4 hours ahead of Vancouver, so the shared part of the day runs 09:00 to 13:00 our time and 13:00 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 Saint John buyers usually bring us
The record for Saint John lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
oil refining
Unit procedures, incident reports and turnaround records are the reference, and an answer that cannot name the unit it applies to is not an answer.
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
shipping
Vessel systems, port calls and documentation flows each need their own integration, built against live data and real timeouts.
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
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 Saint John changes what you are buying.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Saint John 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
More entries from the Canada list, each written the same way as this one.
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