DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Manhattan Beach companies, from downtown retailers to South Bay tech professionals launching a side venture, build custom iOS and Android apps with our senior engineers 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]
Our development process for Manhattan Beach 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 for a technically literate client base that notices shortcuts.
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 build for both platforms as first-class rather than an afterthought.
Manhattan Beach clients tend to ask sharp technical questions, a byproduct of a community with deep ties to aerospace and tech, and we build for that scrutiny: clear architecture decisions, real testing, and code our engineers can defend, not just demo. The result is a mobile application engineered to hold up under real usage, delivered on a timeline AI-enabled development makes possible.
[Deliverables]
Custom mobile apps for Manhattan Beach retailers and restaurants downtown, built by senior engineers using AI-accelerated development to deliver a polished product on a realistic local-business timeline. We handle the full build, from architecture through app store launch, tuned to local foot traffic and repeat customers.
Cross-platform mobile applications from a single, AI-accelerated codebase for Manhattan Beach businesses reaching iOS and Android at once. AI-enabled workflows speed up implementation while our engineers keep full ownership of architecture and performance, built to hold up to a technically informed audience.
MVP development for Manhattan Beach founders, many coming out of the area's aerospace and tech professional community, who need a real product to test with users, not a slide deck. AI-accelerated development gets a working app in front of real users fast, with senior engineers directing architecture throughout.
[FAQs]
A traditional agency bills largely for manual hours across design, development, and QA on each platform separately. Our AI-enabled process lets a small, senior team move through the same work faster, delivering comparable or better quality iOS and Android apps for around $20,000 in about 6 weeks, versus roughly $200,000 and 6 months elsewhere.
Our published tiers anchor the range: prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. Pricing depends on scope, but a typical custom cross-platform build with our AI-enabled process runs around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 an agency using a fully manual process might quote for similar work, with delivery in about 6 weeks instead of 6 months.
We build in Swift, Kotlin, and Flutter depending on the project, and we're glad to walk through architecture decisions in detail. Senior engineers own those calls and document the reasoning, since a Manhattan Beach client base with real technical background tends to want more than a surface-level explanation.
Yes. We regularly build MVPs for founders who need something real to put in front of users before expanding scope. AI-accelerated development gets a working, testable product built quickly, with senior engineers making sure the architecture can scale if the MVP proves out.
[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.
