DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
From the shops along Burlingame Avenue to the corporate offices near SFO, Burlingame businesses build custom iOS apps with our fractional product team, using AI-augmented development to deliver in weeks, not months.
★★★★★
“Other app developer quoted 10X the price to create a live testable version. DreamLabs pricing structure has meant we can quickly get the app in users hands and see what they think!”
Jenn Brooks · Founder & CEO @ Nurture
As a fractional product team, we start by defining your vision and sharpening your strategy. We don’t just say “yes,” but always ask “why?”, helping your dev budget go further and faster.
We use AI-accelerated development to help teams of all sizes launch custom, scale-ready digital products. Ship in days/weeks, not months/years.
User testing is a bonus service we offer to all clients for free. This means we learn together from real users with each release.
[What We Do]
Our process for Burlingame clients pairs AI-assisted architecture, implementation, and testing with hands-on senior engineering review at every stage. AI handles a meaningful share of the boilerplate Swift and SwiftUI code and helps draft test coverage, while our engineers verify, extend, and own every decision that ships. We move from your requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate in short, visible cycles so you're reviewing real functionality throughout the build. Continuous integration and automated testing run in parallel with development, so speed doesn't come at the cost of stability. Burlingame's location, close to SFO and along the Caltrain line, means the businesses we work with often serve customers well beyond the city itself, and we build with that reach in mind: apps that perform reliably across a wide range of devices and network conditions, not just on a demo unit in the office. We prepare every build for Apple's App Store review as part of the process, so launch day is the date your app actually ships, not the start of a review cycle.
[Deliverables]
Custom iOS applications built for Burlingame businesses, from downtown retailers to corporate teams near SFO. Our AI-enabled process pairs senior engineers with AI-assisted development to deliver a scalable, secure app in Swift and SwiftUI, with senior developers reviewing every decision AI helps accelerate, from architecture through App Store submission.
For Burlingame companies running an older iOS app that's fallen behind, we rebuild it on current Swift and SwiftUI foundations. AI-assisted analysis speeds up the audit and rewrite, while senior engineers make the architectural calls that determine whether the rebuilt app actually performs better and holds up as requirements keep changing.
Interface and experience design tailored to how Burlingame's customers, from downtown shoppers to Peninsula commuters, actually use their iPhones. We use AI-assisted prototyping to move quickly through early iteration, so you're reacting to real, working screens rather than static mockups before engineering time gets committed.
[FAQs]
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. Most custom iOS builds with our AI-enabled process run around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 a traditional agency might charge for comparable scope, with delivery in about 6 weeks instead of the usual 6 months. Senior engineers review everything AI helps generate, so the lower cost doesn't come at the expense of quality.
AI compresses the engineering hours a build requires, generating boilerplate code and drafting test coverage that would otherwise take a developer days to write by hand. That's how a project that might cost $200,000 at a traditional agency comes in around $20,000 with us, without cutting senior review or shortcutting App Store readiness.
Most projects land around 6 weeks from kickoff to a completed, launch-ready build. AI-assisted scaffolding and testing let senior engineers move through implementation far faster than manual development alone allows, while still personally reviewing every line of Swift and preparing the app properly for Apple's App Store review.
We build natively in Swift and SwiftUI, following Apple's current frameworks and Human Interface Guidelines rather than a cross-platform wrapper. AI is used throughout the process to accelerate implementation, testing, and code review, but the underlying stack is the same one Apple's own engineers use, which keeps the app maintainable long after we hand it off.
[01] Product Strategy
We start by helping you define your long and short-term product visions. We then break down the concepts into concrete features and functions, so we can piece them back together into a prioritized roadmap.
[02] Development
With the framework pinned down, we go heads-down on execution. We leverage AI-powered tooling and a modern Flutter + Firebase stack to develop your product in record time.
[03] Polishing + Launch QA
Your finished product to ensure that each feature works seamlessly, every color is precise and all copy is ready for publication. We then manage the entire app publishing process on mobile, web or both.
