DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Costa Mesa companies, from design studios near SoCo to retail brands built around South Coast Plaza, work with our senior engineers to build custom iOS apps using AI-enabled development, in weeks rather than 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]
For Costa Mesa clients, we pair AI-assisted architecture and implementation in Swift and SwiftUI with hands-on senior engineering review throughout the build. AI handles a meaningful share of the repetitive work, from scaffolding to test coverage, freeing our engineers to focus on interface polish, performance, and the architectural decisions that hold up long-term. We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, visible cycles rather than a long, opaque development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, so speed never comes at the cost of stability. Given Costa Mesa's concentration of design-forward brands and agencies, we pay close attention to interface craft, building around Apple's Human Interface Guidelines rather than treating design as an afterthought. We manage App Store submission directly, including the review process, so your launch isn't the first time the app meets Apple's standards. The result is an iOS application that ships fast, looks like it belongs on the App Store's front page, and holds up under real usage.
[Deliverables]
Custom iOS applications for Costa Mesa companies, engineered by senior developers using AI-accelerated development to compress the timeline without cutting scope. We manage the full build, from architecture and Swift engineering through App Store launch and ongoing support.
Interface and experience design for Costa Mesa's design-forward businesses, built around Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and the polish local brands expect. AI-assisted prototyping means working screens land in front of you early, so design decisions happen with real feedback, not guesswork.
Enterprise-grade iOS applications for Costa Mesa companies that need to integrate cleanly with existing systems and infrastructure. AI-enabled development speeds up implementation while our engineers retain full ownership of security, performance, and scalability across iPhone and iPad.
[FAQs]
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. A typical custom iOS build with our AI-enabled process runs around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 many agencies charge for comparable work, with delivery in about 6 weeks instead of the industry-standard 6 months. AI accelerates the repetitive parts of the build; senior engineers review everything before it ships.
A design-focused agency using a fully manual process often lands around $200,000 for a comparable custom iOS app. Our AI-enabled process typically brings that down to around $20,000, because AI handles a meaningful share of scaffolding and testing, without lowering the design standard senior engineers and designers hold the build to.
Our designers work directly with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines as a starting point, not a constraint, adapting the interface to your brand's specific visual language. AI-assisted prototyping lets us test real layouts early, so you're reacting to working screens on an actual device instead of static comps.
We start with discovery to lock down requirements, move into AI-assisted architecture and prototyping, then build in short, iterative cycles with your feedback incorporated throughout. Senior engineers review everything that ships, and most Costa Mesa projects land around 6 weeks and $20,000, with App Store submission handled by our team.
[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.
