About
About IT ABLE
Where technology becomes possibility.
Why we started
The company started with a problem one family knew from the inside.
IT ABLE did not begin as a business plan. It began with David Sohn.
At eighteen, a near-fatal accident left David paralyzed. Almost overnight, he was living in a world he now understood from the inside — one not built for everyone in it. What he learned there has shaped the company ever since: the hardest barriers were rarely the disability itself, but the tools, the buildings, and the systems that had quietly assumed he would not be there.
David's answer was not to wait for those systems to change, but to build toward a more accessible future himself — in every form that work could take. He studies computer engineering at UC San Diego, and as a researcher he works in computer vision and accessibility, building assistive technology for the kinds of barriers he knows firsthand. And he founded a company to carry the same purpose further. He did not build it alone: he founded IT ABLE with his father, Warren Sohn, a computer scientist who has spent his career in education, developing the next generation of engineers and educators.
Two generations, two halves of one problem.
David brought the engineering and the drive, and a conviction earned firsthand — for him, IT ABLE is not separate from his research; it is the same purpose, built into a company. He leads it as co-founder and CTO.
Warren brought a career in computer science and teaching — an understanding of how people learn, and of what the technology behind education and the disability-services field truly needs; he serves as co-founder and advisor.
That is why IT ABLE builds the way it does — for people, not categories, and for the disability field broadly. The company was never an abstract bet on a market. It came from a family that understood the problem from the inside, and set out to make it able.
Our mission
What we're here to do.
The disability-services field does demanding, essential work — and much of the technology behind it was never built for the job. Providers run on spreadsheets; families navigate a maze alone; the tools on the shelf were built for other markets. IT ABLE exists to close that gap: to build the curriculum, the products, and the AI systems this field actually needs, to a standard the work deserves.
What kind of company
IT ABLE is not a services agency, and not a single-product startup.
We do three things — license a curriculum, build a product, and take on technical consulting — and the same two strengths run under all three: AI engineering, and a working knowledge of how disability services operate.
The education framework behind our AI-based ILS curriculum is our core intellectual property.
STRIDE is our own product.
Our consulting work makes us a long-term technical partner, not a one-off vendor.
Accessibility
Accessible by design — including this website.
A technology company for the disability field should hold its own work to the standard it asks of everyone else. We design for accessibility from the first decision, not the last:
This website is built the same way. If anything here is hard to use, we want to hear it.