[Who we are]
El Segundo's aerospace and engineering companies expect technical precision, and we bring that same rigor to iOS development, pairing senior engineers with AI-accelerated workflows to deliver App Store-ready apps in about six weeks at a fraction of the usual cost.
★★★★★
“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 El Segundo clients, we combine AI-assisted planning and implementation with hands-on senior engineering to move from concept to a working iOS app quickly, without treating reliability as optional. AI handles a meaningful share of the repetitive build work in Swift and SwiftUI; our engineers own architecture, code review, and every decision that affects long-term stability, particularly for apps that need to integrate with sensor data, hardware, or existing engineering systems. We break projects into short, visible phases so you see real progress at every step rather than waiting for a single big reveal months in. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, which lets us maintain a fast pace without cutting corners a technically sophisticated client base would notice immediately. Whether you're a startup building a first product or an established aerospace-adjacent company adding a mobile offering, we deliver iOS applications that are genuinely production-ready: performant, secure, and built to the same standard of precision this corridor is known for. Documentation and testing get the same attention an aerospace-adjacent engineering culture would expect from any vendor, not an afterthought squeezed in before launch.
[Deliverables]
Custom iOS applications engineered for El Segundo companies, built by senior developers using AI-accelerated development to compress the timeline without cutting scope. We manage the full build in Swift and SwiftUI, from architecture through App Store launch, with the same technical rigor a corridor built around aerospace engineering expects from every vendor.
iOS applications that need to talk to hardware, sensors, or specialized data feeds, built by engineers comfortable working close to the metal. AI-assisted development speeds up the surrounding application logic while our team handles the integration work directly, testing thoroughly against real hardware rather than assuming a simulator tells the whole story.
Enterprise iOS development for El Segundo companies that need an app to integrate cleanly with existing engineering or operational systems. AI-enabled workflows speed up implementation while our engineers retain full ownership of security, performance, and scalability, meeting the standard of reliability this market expects from any technical partner.
[FAQs]
Most projects ship in about 6 weeks, compared to the 6-month timeline common at a traditional agency. AI-assisted development lets our senior engineers move through implementation and testing far faster, while still reviewing every piece of the build against the reliability standard a technically sophisticated client base expects before it goes anywhere near App Store review.
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, well under the roughly $200,000 a traditional agency might quote for comparable scope. AI reduces the manual hours required for scaffolding, testing, and iteration, and we pass that efficiency on directly, without cutting the senior review every build goes through.
Yes, this is common work for us in El Segundo specifically. We handle integration with sensor data, hardware APIs, and internal engineering systems directly, testing against the real systems involved rather than assuming a clean simulator environment tells the full story, with senior engineers owning that integration work end to end.
We treat data handling and access control as core architecture decisions, not an afterthought layered on before launch. Senior engineers design the authentication and data flow from the start, AI accelerates the implementation of that design rather than inventing it independently, and every security-relevant decision goes through review before the app is prepared for App Store submission.
[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.