Creative technology studio · Women-owned

Everyone has the tools now.Not everyone has the perspective.

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4.9 out of 518 verified client reviews

Yes, AI can produce a website in an afternoon. Knowing what your patients, students and communities actually need from it, that still takes people who've done it before. Oak Theory is a studio led by women of color, designing for institutions that can't afford to look like everyone else.

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Client results

What perspective produces.

Three acts. Every number reported by a client, not by us.

Client outcomes

The result first. Then the story.

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Optum

Optum · Creative direction, UX, design systems

Six button styles became one design system.

A single source of truth for Optum's pharmacy experience, built for direct handoff to developers.

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Lynx

Lynx · Product design, design system

One platform inside three household names.

A health savings experience that lives in CVS, Walgreens and Bank of America, each in its own brand.

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Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation · Web design, content strategy

Faces for the people Wikipedia left without one.

Only 35.4% of biographies on English Wikipedia have an image. We built the campaign page that set out to change that.

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In their words

“I've only had a few experiences with branding agencies, and they've all missed something critical, the heartfelt purpose behind what we do. Oak Theory approached it in a way that felt authentic and true to our people and our values.”

Kim Moore · Executive Director, GRIP Training Institute

“We were able to complete the entire design process and get started on development in three short months… that speed, without sacrificing rigor, was amazing.”

Kemi Amin · UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

“What impressed me most about Oak Theory was their willingness to jump in. They delivered everything on time and were proactive about communicating timelines and progress.”

Tali Warburg Goldstein · Lynx

Institutions with real people on the other side.

HealthcareOptum · Lynx · UCSF · Jayla Health
EducationVanderbilt University · Columbia University · UCSF · Camelback Ventures
Finance & InsuranceNAAIA · Masa Finance · Pngme · NJ PLIGA
Nonprofit & Social ImpactOne Million Degrees · Wikimedia Foundation · GRIP · Urban Resource Institute

Founders

Led byperspective.

Vee and Hannah started Oak Theory in 2020 to design for the audiences institutions most often miss. Six years in, that lens is still the work… and it's why the results above look the way they do.

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Oak Theory founders Hannah and Veronica
Est. 2020Vee & Hannah

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How we work

Same tools.Different judgment.

We build on the same modern stack everyone else has… Figma, Lovable, Cursor, Sanity, Vercel. It makes us faster. It doesn't make the decisions.

Same modern stack. It makes us faster… it doesn't make the decisions.

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Tell us what you're building and who it's for. We'll tell you plainly whether we're the right studio for it.

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