DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Los Angeles companies work with our team to build custom iOS apps faster and more affordably, using senior engineers paired with AI throughout design, development, testing, and App Store submission.
★★★★★
“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 Los Angeles clients combines AI-assisted architecture, implementation, and testing with hands-on senior engineering review at every step. That pairing lets us compress the traditional build timeline substantially while keeping the code quality, security, and performance you'd expect from a fully custom Swift build. We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly and iterate with you in short, visible cycles rather than a long black-box development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout, catching issues early instead of at the end of a six-month cycle, and giving us time to prepare properly for Apple's App Store review before submission. From entertainment and media products to retail and enterprise tools, Los Angeles clients need apps that perform under real usage and real scrutiny. We build for that, using AI to move fast without asking you to compromise on the quality of what ships, or the polish Apple's reviewers and your users both expect.
[Deliverables]
Bespoke iOS applications for Los Angeles businesses, built by senior engineers using AI-accelerated development to shorten the timeline without shortening the feature set. We handle the full lifecycle, from architecture to App Store launch and post-launch support.
Enterprise iOS integration work for LA companies connecting a new app to existing systems, data, and infrastructure. AI-enabled development speeds up implementation while our engineers keep ownership of security, performance, and long-term maintainability across iPhone and iPad.
UI/UX design tuned to Los Angeles' design sensibility and user expectations. We use AI-assisted prototyping to get working screens in front of you fast, so design decisions get made early, before engineering time is committed to the wrong direction.
[FAQs]
A traditional agency bills largely for manual hours across design, development, and QA. Our AI-enabled process lets a small, senior team move through the same work faster, which is how we deliver comparable or better quality iOS apps for around $20,000 in about 6 weeks, versus roughly $200,000 and 6 months elsewhere.
Our published tiers anchor the range: prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. Pricing depends on scope, but a typical custom iOS build with our AI-enabled process runs around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 an LA agency using a fully manual process might quote for similar work in Swift and SwiftUI.
We start with a discovery phase to nail down requirements, move into AI-assisted architecture and prototyping, then build in short iterative cycles with your feedback built in. Senior engineers review every stage and prepare the build for Apple's App Store review, so you see steady progress instead of a single reveal at the end.
Off-the-shelf platforms are fast to start but hard to differentiate on and often break down as your requirements grow. A custom iOS app, built efficiently with AI-enabled development, gives you full control over the experience and the flexibility to scale, at a cost that's now much closer to the off-the-shelf option.
[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.
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