DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Santa Ana businesses, from downtown's Artists Village to the historic Fourth Street corridor, work with our senior engineers to build custom iOS apps using AI-enabled development, shipping in weeks instead of 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 Santa Ana clients, we combine AI-assisted architecture and implementation in Swift and SwiftUI with hands-on senior engineering review throughout the build. AI handles a meaningful share of the repetitive work, from scaffolding to test coverage, so our engineers can focus on the decisions that determine whether an app actually serves its intended audience. We move from your requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, visible cycles rather than a long, opaque development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, so speed never comes at the cost of reliability. Given Santa Ana's genuinely diverse customer base, we build in support for multilingual content and accessibility where a client needs it, rather than assuming a single default user. 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 an iOS application built for the actual people who will use it.
[Deliverables]
Custom iOS applications for Santa Ana companies, engineered by senior developers using AI-enabled development to compress the timeline without cutting scope. We manage the full build, from architecture through App Store launch and ongoing support.
For Santa Ana businesses serving a genuinely diverse customer base, we build iOS apps with multilingual content and accessibility support designed in from the start. AI-enabled development speeds up implementation while senior engineers ensure the experience holds up for every user.
Interface and experience design built around Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and the specific audience your Santa Ana business serves. AI-assisted prototyping means working screens land in front of you early, grounding design decisions in real feedback.
[FAQs]
Our published tiers anchor the range: 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, with delivery in about 6 weeks instead of the industry-standard 6 months.
AI handles a meaningful share of the repetitive scaffolding and testing work that would otherwise consume engineering hours, which is how we bring most custom iOS projects to around $20,000 instead of the roughly $200,000 a fully manual process typically costs, without cutting corners on quality.
Yes. Multilingual support is something we scope during discovery and build into the architecture from the start, rather than bolting it on later. Given Santa Ana's diverse customer base, this comes up often, and senior engineers handle the localization work directly to make sure it's done properly.
Custom development means the app fits your specific customers instead of the other way around. Paired with AI-enabled engineering, Santa Ana businesses get that customization at a fraction of the usual cost and time, with a team that stays engaged well past App Store launch.
[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.
