DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Manhattan Beach anchors a South Bay corridor that mixes aerospace engineering with a growing startup scene, and we build iOS apps for both, using senior engineers and AI-enabled development to deliver in about six weeks.
★★★★★
“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 Manhattan Beach clients combines AI-assisted architecture, implementation, and testing with hands-on senior engineering review at every step, building in Swift and SwiftUI throughout. 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 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 long cycle, and giving us time to prepare properly for Apple's App Store review before submission. From startups building a first product to established South Bay companies adding a mobile offering, Manhattan Beach clients need apps that perform under real usage, and we build for that, using AI to move fast without asking you to compromise on the quality of what ships. We also plan for the range of hardware and network conditions real South Bay users actually have, not just the newest iPhone on a fast office connection.
[Deliverables]
Bespoke iOS applications for Manhattan Beach 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, whether you're an early-stage startup or an established South Bay company.
Custom iOS application engineering built natively in Swift and SwiftUI, with AI accelerating implementation and testing while senior developers own architecture and code quality. You get a fully custom, production-grade app rather than a cross-platform compromise, with a development timeline shortened by how efficiently AI handles repetitive work.
Enterprise iOS integration work for Manhattan Beach 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. We handle everything from authentication and backend APIs to third-party services, testing each integration thoroughly before it reaches production.
[FAQs]
Most custom iOS builds take about 6 weeks with our team, versus an industry-typical 6 months. AI-assisted scaffolding, code generation, and testing let our senior engineers move through a build 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. 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 a Manhattan Beach agency using a fully manual process might quote for similar work in Swift and SwiftUI. AI handles a meaningful share of the scaffolding and testing work, and that efficiency is passed directly to you without cutting the senior review every build goes through.
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.
