DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Newport Beach companies, from Newport Center corporate offices to consumer brands, work with our senior engineers to build custom iOS apps using AI-powered full-stack development, shipping 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]
Our development process for Newport Beach clients pairs AI-assisted architecture, implementation, and testing with direct senior engineering oversight at every stage. That combination lets us deliver production-grade iOS applications in Swift and SwiftUI on a timeline manual development alone can't match. We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, transparent cycles rather than a long black-box development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, so we catch issues early instead of at the end of a long cycle. For corporate clients near Newport Center, that often means careful attention to security and compliance; for consumer brands near Fashion Island, it means an interface polished enough to compete for a customer's attention. We prepare for Apple's App Store review as part of the process, not an afterthought, and we handle submission directly. The result is an iOS application built to the standard Newport Beach clients expect, delivered in weeks rather than months.
[Deliverables]
Native iOS applications built for Newport Beach businesses by senior engineers using AI-accelerated development. We deliver high-performance, polished apps built to the standard the market here expects, from architecture through App Store launch.
Enterprise-grade iOS applications for Newport Beach companies, including finance and professional services firms that need careful attention to security and compliance. AI-powered development speeds up implementation while our engineers retain full ownership of architecture and data handling.
SwiftUI-based interface and experience design tailored to Newport Beach's consumer and retail brands. AI-assisted prototyping speeds up iteration, so you're reviewing real, working screens early rather than static mockups.
[FAQs]
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. The cost to hire an iOS app developer in Newport Beach varies, but our AI-powered process typically brings a custom build to around $20,000 all-in, well under the roughly $200,000 some agencies charge. Delivery runs about 6 weeks instead of the industry-standard 6 months, with senior engineers reviewing everything that ships.
A traditional agency bills largely for manual hours across design, development, and QA. Our AI-powered 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.
Security and compliance decisions are handled directly by senior engineers, never delegated to AI. AI accelerates the surrounding implementation work; architecture choices around data handling, authentication, and access control get the same rigorous, manual review any regulated build requires.
Look past turnaround time alone and ask how a company actually achieves it. We combine AI-powered development with senior engineering oversight, so you get the speed of an accelerated process along with the quality and accountability of experienced developers who personally vouch for every decision, including what goes in front of Apple's reviewers.
[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.
