DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
From wellness brands to hospitality along the coast, Malibu businesses work with our senior engineers and AI-accelerated process to launch custom iOS and Android apps 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]
Our process for Malibu clients pairs AI-assisted architecture and implementation with hands-on senior engineering review at every stage, across iOS and Android. AI accelerates the repetitive groundwork, freeing our designers and engineers to focus on the interface details that separate a genuinely polished app from one that merely functions.
We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, visible cycles, so you're reviewing real screens early rather than waiting months for a single reveal. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, keeping things stable as we move fast.
Malibu clients, especially in hospitality and wellness, often need booking, membership, or reservation features that work smoothly for both a loyal local base and a steady flow of visitors, and we scope for that mix during discovery rather than defaulting to a generic template. The result is a mobile app that performs reliably along a coastline with patchy connectivity in places, delivered on a timeline AI-enabled development makes possible without cutting corners on quality.
[Deliverables]
Custom mobile apps for Malibu hospitality, wellness, and lifestyle brands, built by senior engineers using AI-accelerated development to deliver a polished product without a six-month timeline. We manage the full build, from architecture through app store launch, with attention to the details a coastal, brand-conscious market notices.
Cross-platform mobile applications from a single, AI-accelerated codebase for Malibu businesses reaching iOS and Android audiences at once. AI-enabled workflows speed up implementation while our engineers retain full ownership of performance, including reliability in areas with inconsistent connectivity.
Booking and reservation functionality built into a custom app for Malibu hospitality and wellness businesses, tuned to serve both regular local customers and seasonal visitors. AI-assisted development speeds up implementation while our engineers handle the integration work a generic booking plugin usually gets wrong.
[FAQs]
Our published tiers anchor the range: prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. Our AI-enabled process typically brings a custom cross-platform build to around $20,000 all-in, delivered in about 6 weeks, compared to the roughly $200,000 and 6 months a traditional agency might charge. For a Malibu hospitality or wellness brand, that means a genuinely custom app fits a much more realistic budget.
Most projects ship in about 6 weeks with our AI-enabled process, compared to the roughly 6-month timeline typical of a fully manual build. Senior engineers review everything AI helps generate along the way, which is part of why a typical build runs around $20,000 instead of roughly $200,000 elsewhere.
We design for offline-capable functionality and graceful handling of inconsistent connectivity wherever it's relevant, which matters for a coastal market like Malibu. Our engineers test on real devices under real network conditions rather than assuming ideal connectivity, so the app holds up where a generic build might not.
We've worked with wellness studios, hospitality operators, and lifestyle brands along the coast, as well as founders launching new consumer products into a discerning market. Every engagement gets the same fractional product team, design, engineering, and product management, working from a shared AI-enabled process.
[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.
