About
Built by someone who’s lived both sides of it.
The founder
Oliver Thornton was diagnosed on the spectrum at age two, and two of his brothers are also autistic. He grew up with an IEP through K–12, found his footing through competitive tennis — four years of #1 varsity at Palisades Charter High School, then collegiate play — and a turning point in college, where he founded and led a chapter of Delta Sigma Pi at California Lutheran University, growing it to nearly eighty members.
In April 2016 he founded Coding Autism, a technology-training and employment-pathways company for autistic adults — years of community engagement that shaped everything this company now does. His professional background spans technology training, real estate, development, and entrepreneurship.
The brand isn’t built around Oliver, though — and that’s deliberate. Member outcomes are the story here. The founder’s job is to build the infrastructure and get out of the way.
How we work
With the community, not for it. Written-first, sensory-considerate, designed alongside autistic adults. Every claim on this site traces to a dated, published source. Every program is labeled with what it actually is today. Where real material doesn’t exist yet, the page says so honestly.
In practice that means: no phone or video call is ever required to inquire or apply, no diagnosis documentation is requested anywhere on this site, and every published claim — ours or anyone else’s — carries a visible, dated citation you can go check yourself.
Who’s actually behind this
This is a small, pilot-stage team, not a large institution — and we’d rather you know that going in. What we lack in headcount we try to make up for in specificity: every program on this site is scoped to something we can actually deliver right now, and everything further out is labeled as vision, not sold as available.
As the pilot grows, this page will grow with it — team members, advisors, and the employer and clinical partners we work with will be named here as those relationships become real and public.
