About
David Cole is a founder, executive, researcher, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and systems builder based in Germany.
His work sits at the intersection of behavior, operations, software, and AI: how people make decisions, how organizations scale, and how systems are designed well enough to hold up under real use.
He has founded, scaled, and led therapy organizations in Europe. As CEO of Ausblick Therapie, he tripled locations and employees in a year. He then co-founded Knospe-Lerncenter and in two years built it into Germany’s largest Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy provider, with 8 facilities and more than 80 staff spanning ABA, speech-language pathology, physical therapy, and occupational therapy.
That operating background matters because his interest in AI is not abstract. It comes from building and running organizations that need better systems, clearer decisions, stronger implementation discipline, and tools that work under practical constraints.
Before moving into executive and company-building work, David’s academic work focused on neuroscience, behavioral economics, and experimental methods. He studied and worked with EEG, TMS, fNIRS, and brain-computer interface methods, published in peer-reviewed journals, presented at international conferences, and taught at the university level, with his work funded by numerous awards and grants.
He has also built software and tools around real workflow needs, including free graphing software adopted by university programs and more recent work with AI systems, software, and multi-agent workflows. Across those settings, the through-line is the same: building things that help people think more clearly, work more effectively, and make better decisions under real-world constraints.
The current work braids those threads together: long-form writing on how AI actually behaves and what its adoption will do to adjacent fields; software and coordination systems that put those ideas under operating pressure; and a short executive intensive for leaders trying to make AI work inside real organizations.
Today, Multiplicity brings that work, previously hosted at ObserveChange.org, together in one place.