We believe real security
means a machine that is truly yours.
Time's Lab Cloud is an offshore AI development environment provider headquartered in Toronto, Canada, offering environment setup, operations and API/integration testing. We rack brand-new Mac minis and Mac Studios in a professional facility, give each machine to exactly one customer, and after 15 months of continuous subscription hand the whole machine over to you.
Three risks for teams operating overseas.
Many teams need a Mac that stays online with a fixed network setup, for builds, testing or running agents. The usual workarounds are shared virtual machines, shared accounts, or paying a third party to top up and activate services. They work in the short term but leave three kinds of risk. We designed our service to solve only the technical part, and we spell out what we don't do.
Unstable development and test environments
Shared virtual machines change performance and exit address all the time, so API callbacks, allowlists and automated tests are hard to reproduce reliably. Remote-desktopping into a home computer can't guarantee bandwidth or stability either.
Possible outcome: test results can't be reproduced, and builds and releases stall.
Proxy payments and proxy-held accounts
Paying subscriptions through a third party, or sharing or reselling accounts, breaks most platforms' terms of service. Collecting and paying money across borders on someone else's behalf may also fall under local payment and foreign-exchange rules. And once an account registered in someone else's name is suspended, appeals and data recovery are very hard.
Possible outcome: lost accounts and history, and legal exposure for whoever paid.
Unclear control of data and assets
Multi-tenant VMs, and accounts or devices in someone else's name, blur who can see your business data. Moving data across borders can also bring extra compliance obligations that need assessing up front.
Possible outcome: client records, quotes and other sensitive information leak.
What we provide
- Setup, operation and hardware support of a dedicated macOS development environment
- Full macOS admin rights: install any software or AI tool you like
- A fixed public address for API callbacks and allowlist testing
- Power, cooling and facility operations
- Business contracts and proper invoices
What we don't provide
- Top-ups or payments on third-party platforms
- Registering, holding, sharing or reselling third-party accounts
- Collecting or paying money on anyone's behalf, or any settlement service
- Network rental, bandwidth resale or anything that circumvents network controls
The above is a general description of risks and is not legal advice. Customers are responsible for making sure their use complies with local laws and with the terms of any third-party platform.
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Our principles.
Dedicated, never shared
Every customer gets a whole physical Mac, its own switch port and its own static IP. No virtualization and no overselling, so customers never affect each other.
Transparent pricing
Every configuration is priced from Apple Canada's own prices and includes 1 year of AppleCare+. Speed upgrades are on the price list. No hidden fees.
Yours in the end
You're not just paying rent. After 15 months on service, ownership of the whole machine passes to you.
Clear boundaries
We only set up and operate development environments, and never touch your money or your third-party accounts. The scope of service is written into the contract.
Three fiber nodes, one per speed tier.
Pick a speed tier and we place your machine on the matching node. There's no node to choose yourself.
1.0–1.5 Gbps fiber node
[Address / area]. Carries the included 1.0–1.5 Gbps tier.
2.5–3.0 Gbps fiber node
[Address / area]. Carries the 2.5–3.0 Gbps tier, for customers who need more bandwidth.
5.0–8.0 Gbps fiber node
[Address / area]. Line speed up to 8.0 Gbps, carrying the 5.0–8.0 Gbps tier for heavy traffic and model inference.
Every node has
- A dedicated static public IP for each machine
- Its own switch port; public IPs are never shared
- [Bandwidth note: shared line rate-limited to your tier / dedicated guarantee]
- UPS with LiFePO4 battery backup
- [Temperature / cooling details]
- [Remote ops: response time for reboots and reinstalls]
- Brand-new machines bought through official Apple channels
Who looks after your machine.
Every machine includes 1 year of AppleCare+. Hardware faults are repaired by Apple or an authorized service provider, and a standby machine covers you during the repair.
Runs the facility network, static IP allocation, line monitoring and incident response.
Proper contracts, clean books.
We sign business service contracts as a Canadian-registered company and issue proper invoices.