DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
We build custom iOS apps for Placentia businesses using AI-accelerated development, pairing senior engineers with AI across architecture, coding, and testing to deliver App Store-ready software in weeks, not 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]
For Placentia clients, we combine AI-assisted architecture and implementation in Swift and SwiftUI with direct senior engineering review at every stage. AI handles a meaningful share of the repetitive work, from scaffolding to test coverage, so our engineers spend their time on the decisions that determine whether an app holds up long term. We move from your requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, visible cycles instead of a long, opaque development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, so speed doesn't come at the cost of reliability. We take the time to understand a smaller business's specific operation before writing any code, since a generic feature list rarely fits a business that's been doing things a particular way for years. We manage App Store submission directly, including any review back-and-forth, so launch day isn't the first time your app meets Apple's standards. The result is fully custom software, delivered fast and built around how you actually work.
[Deliverables]
Custom iOS applications for Placentia companies, engineered by senior developers using AI-accelerated development to compress the timeline without cutting scope. We manage the full build, from architecture through App Store launch and ongoing support.
For Placentia businesses unsure where to start, we offer iOS app consulting and strategy that maps your specific operation to a realistic build plan. AI-accelerated development means the resulting app can move from strategy to launch in about 6 weeks.
Interface and experience design built around Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and how your specific customers actually use their phones. AI-assisted prototyping puts working screens in front of you early, so decisions are grounded in real feedback.
[FAQs]
Our published tiers anchor the range: prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. Our AI-accelerated process typically brings a custom iOS build to around $20,000 all-in, well under the roughly $200,000 a traditional agency might quote for comparable scope, with delivery in about 6 weeks rather than the standard 6 months.
It's more realistic now than it used to be. AI-accelerated development is how we bring the typical cost of a custom iOS build down from roughly $200,000 to around $20,000, with delivery in about 6 weeks, which puts genuinely custom software within reach of businesses that couldn't have afforded it before.
We start with a discovery phase focused entirely on your existing operation, not a generic feature checklist. That includes talking through the workflows the app needs to support before any design or engineering work begins, so the finished app fits your business instead of forcing you to adapt to it.
Most iOS development includes strategy and scoping, UI/UX design, engineering, testing, and App Store launch support. We offer all of it under one fractional product team, using AI-accelerated development to bring a typical project in around $20,000 and 6 weeks.
[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.
