Services/App development
Agency · White-label · White label app development · USAApp development that ships under your agency’s brand. Native iOS, native Android, cross-platform, or a progressive web app when that’s the honest recommendation. Built to survive OS updates and store review, then handed over documented, with your client owning every line from the first commit.
An app engagement is more than the screens. Here is what reaches the team most often under an agency’s brand.
Where it fitsThe build that has to feel like it belongs on the device.
What it coversSwift and SwiftUI builds written to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Architecture through TestFlight distribution and App Store review — including the resubmission rounds nobody budgets for.
Where it fitsA user base spread across hardware you don't control.
What it coversKotlin and Jetpack Compose, tested against the device spread your client's users actually carry. Play Store submission and policy compliance handled inside the engagement.
Where it fitsOne product, both stores, one budget.
What it coversReact Native and Flutter when one codebase honestly serves both stores. We recommend by project shape, not by what the team feels like writing.
Where it fitsWhen the store queue adds friction without adding value.
What it coversWeb apps that install to the home screen and work offline — no store queue, no review cycle. Often the right first mobile move for content and commerce brands.
Where it fitsThe half of the app the client never sees.
What it coversAuthentication, data sync, push notifications, payments. The server side an app depends on, built and documented alongside the app itself.
Where it fitsA build someone else left half-shipped.
What it coversInherited codebases, stalled builds, framework migrations. Audit first, written diagnostic next, then a plan your client can read.
A phone is where apps go to be deleted. The install is the cheap part. The outcome your client pays for is the second open — the saved card, the reorder placed without thinking, the booking made without a password reset. An app earns its budget when it makes the customer’s next order shorter than their first.
That is why the diagnostic comes before the SOW. Plenty of app briefs are really retention problems, and some are better served by a progressive web app at a fraction of the build. You hear that read before any ticket is written. When the build is the right answer, it ships pointed at the metric that justified it.
The app is designed, built, and shipped under your agency’s brand while another team does the engineering. Your client sees your team, your channel, your documentation. The store listings sit in your client’s developer accounts. Orizon appears nowhere — and the mutual NDA that guarantees it returns signed the same day.
App builds add store review to the launch phase. The structure holds — only what the build does changes.
First call with a co-founder. Three questions in order — what the app needs to change, what already exists (codebase, backend, store accounts), what twelve months from now needs to be true. Mutual NDA returns the same day.
Solve-the-Real-Problem workshop. The platform recommendation — native, cross-platform, or PWA — comes with its reasoning in writing, then a scoped SOW. You hear whether the app reaches the outcome before any ticket gets written.
Working builds on real devices at every check-in. Senior review before every merge. Architecture decision records committed to your repo as they're made. The lead who took the first call stays on every check-in.
Store submission handled through review, rejection, and resubmission. Launch monitored as real users arrive. Then the ninety-day Stays Program runs — same channel, same names, same standards.
Four categories cover what reaches the team for app engagements. We add technologies as engagements call for them, not as a marketing exercise.
When the app needs deep hardware access, heavy animation, or platform-specific polish.
When one codebase honestly serves both stores — decided by project shape, in writing.
Auth, sync, push, and payments — built and documented alongside the app, not after it.
Submission, crash reporting, and device testing wired in before the first release build.
* Objective-C and Java on existing codebases only. If the build you’re scoping needs a technology not listed, mention it on the first call — the full eight-category stack lives on /services.
Platform work — software developmentApp work reaches the team through two channels, and across several industries.
Agencies land app projects in waves. Carrying a native iOS salary between waves is the expensive way to say yes to mobile work, so most agencies quietly stop saying yes. With engineering behind your brand, you quote the app project, keep the client relationship and the margin, and staff the build only while it runs.
The partnership structure — /partnersBrand founders whose customers already live on their phones. An app is usually the retention play — loyalty balances and reorders one tap from the lock screen — once the store itself is working. We sit inside the team and tell you honestly whether your customers need an app or a faster mobile site.
The brand-led channelBehind their client work, in the agency cases. Industry detail sits on the industries pages.
No tier table. No hourly menu. App engagements use one of three modes, chosen by the shape of the engagement rather than an off-the-shelf package.
Fixed cost. In writing.
When it appliesA new app with a defined deliverable and a launch date.
Capacity, by the sprint.
When it appliesAn app already live, with releases that keep coming.
A sharp read, first.
When it appliesNative, cross-platform, or PWA is still an open question.
Full pricing posture sits on /partners. Structured care after launch is costed into every build by default, not invoiced separately.
Full postureWhite-label app development is app engineering your agency sells and leads under its own brand, delivered by a partner working behind your NDA. You own the client relationship and set the pricing; the partner builds. Your client sees your team, and the store listings sit in their developer accounts.
Cost follows scope, platform choice, and how much backend the app needs — not a rate card. Engagements are project-scoped with a written SOW, sprint-retained for ongoing app work, or workshop-only for a diagnostic before any commitment. The scoping is open: you see how the quote is built on the second call.
The project decides. Native (Swift, Kotlin) earns its cost when the app needs deep hardware access, heavy animation, or platform-specific polish. Cross-platform (React Native, Flutter) fits when one codebase honestly serves both stores. A progressive web app fits when the store adds friction without adding value. The recommendation comes in writing, with reasoning.
Your client, from the first commit. Code, design files, architecture decision records, and documentation transfer to your repo as they're produced. App Store and Play Store listings live in your client's developer accounts, so nothing about the app's distribution ever depends on us.
Apps decay without care. OS updates land every year and store policies shift more often. The ninety-day post-launch programme runs after every Orizon launch, in the same channel with the same names. After it ends, maintenance is scoped to what the app needs.
Partnership-level questions — NDA handling, communication, engagement mechanics — live on /faq.
Bring the app your client keeps asking about. The build a previous partner left half-shipped. The store rejection nobody can decode. We won’t pitch you — we’ll read what you’ve sent and tell you what we’d do with it on the first call.
A reply naming what we understood and what we'd need to know before saying anything useful. Not a calendar link.
With a co-founder and the engineer who'd lead the build. What the app needs to change, what already exists, what has to be true in twelve months.
The platform recommendation with its reasoning, where the risk sits, and the parts of the brief we'd talk you out of. In writing, before any number.
A written SOW with milestones, or the workshop standalone if you want the read without the build. Nothing gets built before it's on paper.
The partner that stays. We build what stays.
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