DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
From Fashion Island retailers to the finance and professional-services firms along Newport's coastline, we build custom iOS and Android apps engineered by senior developers and accelerated by AI, without the six-month timeline or six-figure price tag.
★★★★★
“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 Newport 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 manual, platform-by-platform development can't match, without compromising the visual and interaction polish a premium market expects. We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, transparent cycles rather than a long black-box development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout, so we catch issues early instead of at the end of a long cycle, and we treat both platforms as first-class rather than porting one to the other after launch. Because so many Newport Beach clients operate in finance, professional services, or premium consumer categories, we put real weight on interface craft and brand consistency alongside technical correctness, not as an afterthought layered on at the end. Senior engineers stay accountable for architecture, security, and performance throughout, using AI to accelerate the parts of the build that genuinely benefit from it.
[Deliverables]
Custom mobile applications for Newport Beach companies, engineered by senior developers using AI-accelerated development to shorten the build without narrowing the scope. We manage the full lifecycle, from architecture through app store launch and ongoing support, for iOS, Android, or both, with the polish a premium coastal market expects.
For Newport Beach businesses that need it, we build fully native iOS and Android applications and integrate them into the finance, CRM, or premium retail systems many firms near Fashion Island and the coastline already depend on. AI-enabled development speeds up delivery while our engineers stay hands-on with architecture, security, and the polish a premium brand expects from every integration point.
Interface and experience design tuned to the polish Newport Beach's finance, professional-services, and premium consumer brands expect from every touchpoint, not just their website. AI-assisted prototyping gets working screens in front of you early on both platforms, and our design team hand-finishes each one so the interaction quality matches the brand standard your market operates in.
[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, which is how we deliver comparable or better quality iOS and Android apps for around $20,000 in about 6 weeks, versus roughly $200,000 and 6 months elsewhere.
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 a Newport Beach agency using a fully manual, platform-by-platform process might quote for similar work, with delivery in about 6 weeks instead of 6 months, without cutting the visual polish a premium market demands.
We start with a discovery phase to nail down requirements and platform strategy, move into AI-assisted architecture and prototyping, then build in short iterative cycles with your feedback built in at every stage. Senior engineers review every stage, and continuous testing runs throughout on both iOS and Android before anything reaches an app store.
Off-the-shelf platforms are fast to start but hard to differentiate on, and rarely match the brand standard a premium Newport Beach business needs to hold its ground in a competitive market. A custom mobile app, built efficiently with AI-enabled development, gives you full control over the experience on both iOS and Android at a cost now much closer to the off-the-shelf option.
[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.
