DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Glendale's mix of animation studios, corporate headquarters, and downtown retail needs iOS apps built for a genuinely varied audience, and we deliver that with senior engineers using AI-powered full-stack development, in about six weeks instead of six 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 iOS development process for Glendale clients pairs AI-assisted architecture, backend integration, and testing with direct senior engineering review at every stage, building in Swift and SwiftUI throughout. That combination shortens the typical build timeline substantially while preserving the code quality and performance a production application needs. We move quickly from requirements to a working prototype, then iterate with you in short, visible cycles rather than a long, opaque development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout, so speed doesn't come at the cost of reliability, and we account for Apple's App Store review process from the earliest planning stages rather than treating it as a final hurdle. Because Glendale businesses range from entertainment companies to enterprise headquarters to consumer-facing retail, we spend real time up front understanding who your actual users are before architecture decisions get made, so the app you launch with is built around real usage patterns rather than an assumed one. That flexibility matters in a city where the right approach for an entertainment product looks nothing like the right approach for an internal enterprise tool.
[Deliverables]
Custom iOS applications for Glendale businesses, built by senior engineers 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, tailored to whether your audience is entertainment-facing, enterprise, or consumer retail.
Interface and experience design tailored to your specific Glendale audience, whether that's an entertainment fanbase, an internal enterprise user base, or downtown retail customers. AI-assisted prototyping means working screens land in front of you early, so design decisions get made with real feedback rather than assumptions, measured against Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
Enterprise-grade iOS applications for Glendale companies that need to integrate with existing infrastructure and meet real security and compliance standards. AI-accelerated development shortens the build cycle while our engineers keep full ownership of architecture, integration, and performance across iPhone and iPad deployments.
[FAQs]
Most custom iOS builds take about 6 weeks with our team, compared to the roughly 6-month timeline common at a traditional agency. AI-assisted architecture, code generation, and testing let our senior engineers move through implementation far faster than manual development alone, while still reviewing and owning every line of Swift that ships.
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 a traditional agency might charge for comparable scope. AI handles a meaningful share of the scaffolding and testing work, and that efficiency gets passed directly to Glendale clients without cutting senior engineering review.
It varies widely, which is part of what makes Glendale interesting: entertainment and animation studios, corporate headquarters running internal tools, and downtown retail and service businesses building customer-facing apps. Each needs a different starting point, so we spend real discovery time understanding your actual users before architecture decisions get locked in.
Post-launch support is part of the engagement, not a separate negotiation. We monitor for issues after release, ship updates through Apple's normal review cycle, and use AI-assisted development the same way we did during the initial build, to move through fixes and new features faster without skipping senior review.
[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.
