Masovian (MZ), Poland
AI development for Warsaw teams, handed over in writing
Magic Ship is one shop in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between Vancouver and Warsaw there is no same-day overlap to sell you, so the engagement is built the other way around: everything that matters is written down, and the day you start is the day after ours finished.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Warsaw, Poland
- your clock
- UTC+01:00 (Europe/Warsaw)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Warsaw
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Warsaw is 9 hours ahead of Vancouver. When we start at 09:00 it is 18:00 on the same day for you, and when we stop at 17:00 it is 02:00 on the next day. On the same calendar date there is no hour where both sides are at work.
Treated properly it is the better arrangement. Nobody blocks on a meeting, every decision exists as text with a date on it, and the work moves while the other side sleeps instead of while the other side waits.
- Everything built during our day lands in one written note before we close the laptop. No status meeting stands in for it.
- Your morning starts with that note and a set of pull requests to review, which is a better start than a calendar invitation.
- Every decision worth arguing about is written down where the code is, with the reasoning and the date attached.
- Questions come with a recommendation, because a question that needs a reply before work continues costs a full day here.
One live call a week, and it is scheduled honestly: 08:00 in Vancouver is 17:00 in Warsaw. That hour is outside our working day and inside yours. We take the awkward end of it, because it is our job to be reachable.
What Warsaw buyers usually bring us
The record for Warsaw lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
business services
The people doing the work know where the time goes. Teaching them to drive the tools on their own files beats a platform rollout nobody asked for.
The people around the engineers get included, because these workflows break at the handoffs far more often than in the editor.
Closest service line: Training and enablement
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.
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
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in euros or US dollars. GDPR makes storage location a design question rather than a footnote, so the index, the logs and the model calls get pinned to European regions where your provider offers them, and that is settled in week one.
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, Warsaw 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 Europe
Where else the same work happens in Europe, with the numbers redone per market.
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