Development
Native or cross-platform, built for how phones actually behave — patchy signal, low battery, interruptions — and taken all the way through App Store and Play Store approval.
Is this you?
Not every business needs one. These four situations are where an app earns its cost back.
Your users are on their phones and your site is fighting them
Mobile traffic dominates, but the experience is a desktop layout squeezed sideways and everyone feels it.
You need the phone itself, not just the browser
Camera, GPS, Bluetooth, biometrics or background location — capabilities a web page can't reach reliably.
Your field team works where there's no signal
Warehouses, basements, remote sites. Work has to continue offline and reconcile cleanly when the connection returns.
You need to reach people who aren't looking for you
Push notifications and a home-screen icon are the difference between being remembered and being bookmarked.
Overview
The platform decision gets made on your requirements, not on our preference.
Most mobile projects fail somewhere other than the code. They fail because the app assumed a good connection, or drained the battery, or asked for six permissions on first launch, or spent three weeks bouncing off App Store review for something that could have been avoided at design time. We build with those failure modes in front of us rather than behind us.
The first real decision is native versus cross-platform, and it depends on what your app has to do. React Native or Flutter gives you one codebase across both stores, faster iteration and a lower cost — the right answer for most business apps. Swift and Kotlin are worth the extra when you need heavy graphics, sustained background processing, deep hardware access or platform-specific performance. We'll tell you which one your requirements actually call for, including when that answer is a progressive web app and not an app at all.
From there we design for the device: offline-first data where the network can't be trusted, permission requests asked in context rather than at launch, thumb-reachable navigation, and battery-aware background work. Then we take it through submission ourselves — store listing, screenshots, privacy declarations, review responses — because getting rejected is a scheduling problem you shouldn't have to learn about the hard way.
Capabilities
Nine areas of mobile work. Which ones apply is decided during discovery, not assumed.
Swift and SwiftUI apps built to Apple's current guidelines, taking full advantage of the hardware and the platform's own interaction patterns.
Kotlin and Jetpack Compose apps that behave correctly across the range of screen sizes, OS versions and manufacturers your users actually carry.
React Native and Flutter builds that ship to both stores from one codebase — most of the reach, a fraction of the ongoing maintenance.
Local storage, queued actions and conflict resolution so work continues without signal and reconciles predictably when it returns.
Segmented, permission-respecting notifications and in-app messaging that bring people back without training them to mute you.
Camera, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, biometrics and sensors wired in properly, with graceful behaviour when a permission is declined.
Biometric login, SSO, secure token storage and encrypted local data, implemented to the standards each store now enforces.
Mobile-appropriate APIs, payloads sized for cellular data, and resilient handling of the timeouts phones produce constantly.
Listings, screenshots, privacy declarations and review responses — plus in-app analytics so you can see behaviour after install, not just downloads.
Deliverables
Stack
Selected against your feature requirements, your budget for ongoing maintenance and the platforms your users are actually on.
Native
Cross-Platform
Backend & Data
Release & Monitoring
Our Process
Six phases, ending with a live listing rather than a handed-over build folder.
Engagement
Three shapes, depending on how fixed the feature set is and who owns the roadmap after launch.
Defined feature set, agreed timeline, fixed price, both stores. Best when the app's job is clear and the destination is known.
Fit
And, just as usefully, who it isn't for.
Why DM Solutions
Four commitments aimed at the year after launch, not just approval day.
If a responsive site or a progressive web app would serve your users just as well, we'll say so. An app nobody opens twice is the most expensive thing we could build you.
A device matrix covering current and older hardware, plus poor-signal and low-battery conditions. Simulators don't tell you what your users will experience.
Store listings, privacy declarations, screenshots and review responses are ours to handle. We've read the guidelines so your launch date doesn't depend on learning them.
Source code, certificates, provisioning profiles and store accounts are in your name from day one — so you're never locked to us to ship an update.
Proof of work
Builds where retention, adoption or field productivity moved measurably after launch.
A Child's Wish Foundation fulfils the wishes of children facing critical illness. The mission moved everyone who heard it; almost nobody was hearing it. DM Solutions led brand, content strategy, and donation flow design; Creative Labs partnered with us to execute the WordPress build and CRM integration. Donations rose 50% within six months, organic traffic 70%, and volunteer registrations 35%.
Results
01
Increase in organic traffic
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Boost in donations
03
Rise in engagement
Tea with George is a conversation-led podcast spanning industries, guests, and unhurried questions. It needed a digital home that matched that tone and could be found by people who had never heard the show. DM Solutions led strategy, UX, and content direction; Creative Labs partnered with us to execute the Webflow build and on-page search work. The result: 40% more organic traffic, half again as many listener interactions, and an audience that started subscribing directly.
Results
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Rise in organic traffic
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More listener interactions
03
Lower bounce rate
Haniel Singh Ministries spreads messages of hope and spiritual growth through sermons, podcasts, and community. Its existing site couldn't carry a growing content library or reach beyond the people who already knew it. DM Solutions led content architecture, UX, and conversion strategy; Creative Labs partnered with us to execute the Webflow build. Traffic rose 150% in the first quarter and newsletter sign-ups 200%.
Results
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More newsletter sign-ups
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Growth in website traffic
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Increase in podcast listeners
The Convergence Summit brings faith leaders, church representatives, and thought leaders together around ministry growth and community impact. Its digital platform had to carry spiritual weight and survive a registration surge on the same afternoon. DM Solutions led UX and registration strategy; Creative Labs partnered with us to execute the WordPress build and load testing. Sign-ups rose 40% and session duration 50%.
Results
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Increase in registrations
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Longer average sessions
03
Increase in organic traffic
Veritas Protection provides executive transportation, risk assessment, and bespoke security strategy to high-profile individuals and international organisations. Their clientele is elite; their website was not. DM Solutions led positioning, UX, and content strategy; Creative Labs partnered with us to execute the Webflow build. Session duration rose 45% and client enquiries 35%, with first-page rankings on the terms that matter.
Results
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Longer session durations
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Rise in client enquiries
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Rankings on core terms
The Caylor Group advises organisations on growth and operational excellence. Their reputation was strong; their website communicated none of it and converted almost nobody. DM Solutions led positioning, UX, and conversion strategy; Creative Labs partnered with us to execute the build. Qualified leads rose 85%, organic traffic 60%, and consultation requests tripled.
Results
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More consultation requests
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Increase in qualified leads
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Boost in organic traffic
New Wine Church is a faith-driven community in Lynchburg, Virginia with a flourishing in-person congregation and almost no digital reach. DM Solutions led brand identity, information architecture, and UX; Creative Labs partnered with us to execute the Webflow build. The result is a searchable sermon library, an interactive event calendar, and a secure giving platform — a site that respects the church's heritage without looking like it was built in its founding decade.
Results
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Growth in overall sessions
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Improvement in engagement rate
03
Growth in active users
End-to-end rebuild, optimization, redesign, and growth program for a stalled travel brand.
Results
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Organic traffic ceiling broken after 2-year plateau
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New booking platform shipped on time
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Higher conversion on existing traffic post-redesign
A scalable design system that unified a fragmented product and tripled UI delivery speed.
Results
01
faster UI feature delivery
02
reduction in design-QA cycles
03
One unified component library across 4 product areas
iOS and Android app serving 150K+ active users with seamless appointment booking and telemedicine.
Results
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active users
02
average app store rating
03
user retention at 90 days
Testimonials
Questions
The six that come up before every mobile build.
Cross-platform — React Native or Flutter — is right for most business apps: one codebase, both stores, faster iteration and materially lower maintenance. Native is worth the extra when you need heavy graphics, sustained background processing, deep hardware control or platform-specific performance. We make that call during discovery against your actual feature list, and we'll show you the reasoning rather than just the conclusion.
Tell us what the app needs to do and who carries it. We'll come back with a platform recommendation, a timeline and a fixed-price proposal.
Detailed proposal within 48 hours. No commitment required.
