DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Few cities pack as many corporate headquarters and growing startups into so little land as Emeryville. We build the Android apps those companies need, using senior engineers paired with AI to ship 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 process for Emeryville clients pairs AI-assisted architecture, implementation, and testing with direct senior engineering oversight at every stage. That combination lets us deliver production-grade Android applications on a timeline manual development alone can't match, which matters when you're competing with companies that have far larger internal teams. We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, transparent cycles rather than a long, opaque development phase. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, so we catch issues early instead of at the end of a long cycle. We build in Kotlin and Flutter depending on your product's needs, with the Google Play Store's review standards in mind from day one. Whether you're building an internal tool for an established Emeryville company or a consumer product meant to compete for attention in a crowded market, our AI-enabled process gets you a working, production-grade Android application in weeks. We also plan ahead for scale, since a number of our Emeryville clients go from an internal pilot to a much larger rollout within months of launch, and we architect for that growth from the start.
[Deliverables]
Custom Android applications for Emeryville-based companies, engineered by senior developers using AI-accelerated development to move from concept to production fast. We handle architecture, implementation, and Play Store launch as one connected process, with support after you go live. Whether you're a lean startup competing for attention or an established Emeryville company extending an existing product, we scope every engagement around your specific goals, not a generic package.
Enterprise integration work for Emeryville companies connecting a new Android app to existing infrastructure, internal tools, or backend systems. AI-enabled development speeds up implementation while our engineers keep full ownership of security, performance, and maintainability. We work with whatever internal systems or third-party tools your company already relies on, so the finished Android application becomes part of your existing stack instead of sitting apart from it.
UI/UX design tuned to the expectations of Emeryville's product-savvy user base. AI-assisted prototyping means you're reviewing real, working screens early, so design decisions get validated before engineering time is committed to the wrong direction. We test with real users before locking a design into production, an approach that matters in a market where the product next door may already be setting the bar for polish.
[FAQs]
Most Emeryville projects ship in about 6 weeks with our AI-enabled process, compared to the roughly 6 months a traditional build usually takes. AI-assisted scaffolding, code generation, and testing let senior engineers move through implementation far faster, while still owning every piece that ships. That timeline holds for a typical project scope; something involving unusually complex integrations may take a bit longer, and we'll flag that clearly during discovery rather than mid-build.
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. A typical custom Android build with our AI-enabled process runs around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 many agencies charge for comparable work. That gap is often the difference between a genuinely custom app and settling for an off-the-shelf compromise. That figure covers a genuinely custom build, from architecture through Play Store launch, not a stripped-down version that leaves out the polish an Emeryville audience tends to expect.
An internal team gives you dedicated attention but takes months to hire and carries significant fixed cost. We give Emeryville companies a fractional product team, senior engineers paired with AI across design, development, and testing, that can move as fast as a larger internal group without the overhead of building one from scratch. That fractional model also means you're not paying to keep a full team on staff between projects, which matters for companies managing a tight budget in a competitive market.
We build native Android in Kotlin when a project calls for it, and Flutter when a client needs Android and iOS from a single codebase. We help you decide which approach fits your product and your timeline during discovery, based on your actual users rather than a default answer. Either way, senior engineers review the architecture and every integration point, so the choice comes down to your product's needs rather than what's easiest for us to build.
[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.
