Magic Services

While your character may not be a mage, he has plenty of reason to hire mages. Here are some of the services mages have been known to supply:

Spell Teaching, Talismongering, Etc: Ah yes, the basic services mages provide to each other- glossed over here.

Entertainment: The entertainment spell can provide lifelike illusions even better than simsense programs, with the only downside is that some mage is controlling them (and thus watching you interact).

Spellcasting Services: Whether it's magical healing, or even quickening spells, mages are right up there wanting to cash in (though karma intensive spells are very expensive).

Astral Scrubbing: Grab a mage with cleansing and help clean up the psycic images so no one can come in and psychomancy or astrally track you. Great for cleaning up crime scenes, horrible for cleaning up your house.

Psychic Detective: Maybe you need to bring someone with psychomancy to a location to read the past or astrally track someone else. Hopefully he didn't hire a scrubber

Spirit Summoning: For a fee a mage might be able to summon a spirit to follow you around and assist you for a while. The problem with this is you almost always need a greater form (not always, but almost always) to be able to bring him from the summon spot to where you're going. But having a spirit on hand to conceal you can be very useful.

Aura Reading: Maybe you need a guy with astral perception to read your own aura (or thoughts!) to find out some secret about your past (or to discover what that mysterious piece of cyberware is!).

Spy: A mage can astrally project and check an area out- though this can get very dangerous and is closer to hiring your own shadowrunner than purchasing a magic service.

Sustainer: Maybe you need someone to take over sustaining a spell for you. Usually you're paying this guy a high hourly rate, but he requires a special metamagic feat for this.

Healing: Restoring essence or magic can get very expensive as this experimental metamagic feat is used to heal you up. Almost always at GM call.

Magic Surgery: Get a mage with biotech and the right metamagic and cyberware/bioware essence reduction can be greatly reduced! Even better if you can get magical cyberware to begin with!

Sometimes it doesn't hurt just to look up a mage- as long as he can keep a secret!