Sara was launched in 2015 by founder KD Nygaard as part of the Council of State Vocational Rehabilitation Administrators WINTAC (Workforce Innovation Technical Assistance Center). Funded by the Rehabilitation Services Agency (RSA), the mission was to pilot solutions to the WIOA requirements for common reporting and data integration. Eleven states applied for Sara pilot status, with Kentucky, Nevada, and Alaska as the finalists. All three states are still using Sara today. At the start of WINTAC in 2015, Sara had 28 users and a few hundred clients under management. When the WINTAC project came to a close in 2020, SARA had almost 5,000 users and 300,000+ clients under management.