DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Irvine's dense concentration of tech companies, biotech firms, and UC Irvine-adjacent startups sets a high technical bar, and our AI-powered, senior-engineered process meets it for around $20,000 and about 6 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 development process for Irvine clients pairs AI-assisted architecture, implementation, and testing with direct senior engineering oversight at every stage, across iOS and Android. That combination lets us deliver production-grade mobile applications on a timeline that manual, platform-by-platform development can't match, which matters in a market where technical rigor is the baseline expectation, not a differentiator. We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, transparent cycles. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, so we catch issues early rather than at the end of a long development phase, and we treat both platforms as first-class rather than porting one to the other after the fact. Irvine's density of startups and tech companies means we regularly work alongside clients who have technical staff of their own, and we're comfortable operating at that level of scrutiny, from architecture reviews to detailed discussion of tradeoffs. Senior engineers stay accountable for architecture, security, and performance across the entire build, using AI to accelerate the parts of development that genuinely benefit from it.
[Deliverables]
Custom mobile applications for Irvine companies, engineered by senior developers using AI-accelerated development to meet the technical bar this market expects without the timeline a from-scratch build usually requires. We manage the full lifecycle, from architecture through app store launch and ongoing support, for iOS, Android, or both.
For Irvine companies that need it, we build fully native iOS and Android applications and integrate them deeply into existing enterprise systems, APIs, and infrastructure, work that's common among the established tech and biotech firms clustered around the Irvine Spectrum corridor. AI-assisted development helps our engineers move quickly through platform-specific integration work while keeping a close eye on security and long-term maintainability.
Interface and experience design built for Irvine's technically sophisticated user base, whether that's enterprise software for an established company or a consumer product for an early-stage startup competing in a crowded local market. AI-assisted prototyping gets working screens in front of you early, so design decisions hold up to the same scrutiny the rest of your product gets, on both platforms.
[FAQs]
You get a team that can keep pace with one of the more technically demanding markets in Southern California, using AI-enabled development to deliver production-quality iOS and Android apps for around $20,000, well under the roughly $200,000 and 6-month timeline typical of a traditional, platform-by-platform build.
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. A typical AI-enabled cross-platform build runs around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 some Irvine-area agencies charge for comparable work across iOS and Android using a fully manual development process. Delivery generally lands around 6 weeks rather than the 6-month timeline that manual, platform-by-platform development tends to require, without lowering the technical bar this market expects.
We're comfortable with detailed technical review from a client's own engineers, including architecture walkthroughs, code review access, and clear documentation of how AI-assisted output was verified before it shipped. Senior developers own every architectural decision, so that scrutiny, common among Irvine's tech and biotech companies, is something we welcome rather than avoid.
Most projects complete in around 6 weeks with our AI-accelerated process, compared to the roughly 6-month timeline typical of a fully manual build across iOS and Android. Senior engineers review everything that ships to either platform, so the shorter timeline still holds up to the technical scrutiny an Irvine client's own engineering team is likely to apply.
[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.
