Ontario (ON), Canada
AI development for Toronto teams, inside your afternoon
Magic Ship is an AI development agency in Vancouver, British Columbia, working remotely with teams in Toronto. We are not in Toronto and we will not pretend to be. Your day and ours meet for 5 hours, and the engagement is built around that window rather than around wishing it were longer.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Toronto, 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 Toronto
What fits in a 5-hour window
The overlap is real and it is bounded. Toronto 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 Toronto buyers usually bring us
The record for Toronto lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
financial services
Research, filings and internal policy are the corpus. Hybrid search with metadata filters as hard constraints, plus span citations, or it does not ship.
Access rules apply inside the index at retrieval time, never as a filter bolted onto the answer after the fact.
Closest service line: Knowledge bases and retrieval
enterprise software
Large product repos with heavy review culture need repo-level context files and test generation before agents stop producing work you throw away.
We prove one wedge and then widen it. Rewriting the whole practice on day one is how these efforts die.
Closest service line: Codebase and team optimization
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.
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, Toronto 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.
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.