For the last 15 years we've been helping startups and established brands innovate and grow.

A senior product team,
embedded in yours

Design-led and boutique on purpose. The same compact team of product designers and engineers, working inside your workflow — from first sketch to shipped product.

Why product leaders work with us

Most agencies hand you a rotating cast of juniors behind an account-management layer. We do the opposite: a compact senior team — people who have shipped products together for years — embeds directly into your rituals. Your Slack, your standups, your roadmap, your definition of done.

We are design-led. Every engagement starts from your users and your business outcomes, not from a ticket queue. And we stay boutique deliberately — with a 25+ core team, the people you meet in the first call are the people who do the work.

Senior only

Product designers, UX researchers and engineers with 10+ years of shipping. No hand-offs to a bench you never met.

Embedded, not outsourced

We take ownership of outcomes inside your team — not deliverables thrown over a wall. Weekly demos, honest trade-offs, direct access to everyone on the team.

Design-led engineering

Strategy, UX, UI and engineering under one roof, so what gets designed is what gets built — across web, mobile and connected devices.

How an engagement works

1. Start focused

Most partnerships begin with a well-scoped first project — often a product audit or a design sprint — so you can evaluate how we think before committing further.

2. Embed

The team plugs into your tools and cadence within days. We bring structure where it helps — discovery, prototyping, design systems, delivery — and adapt to what already works.

3. Scale with the roadmap

Engagements flex up or down as your roadmap evolves. Our longest client relationships have run for years, across multiple products and platforms.

Product teams we've built with

For over 15 years we've combined design and technology for startups and global brands across fintech and banking, education, health, sharing economy, media and consumer products.

Case studies: cBank · Future Finance · Zipcar · Vector Watch · all work

Let's talk

Email: hello@okapistudio.com

Phone: +1 (415) 315 9367

San Francisco 408 Colusa Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530, USA

BucharestFranzelarilor 2, District 2, 020786, ROU

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