# Valid Agenda > Fractional Chief AI Officer leadership for owners and senior leaders moving from AI ambition to accountable execution. Contact: Book a 30-minute conversation at https://validagenda.com/book. **David Pengelley** - https://davidpengelley.com ยท LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/davidpen ## Core context - [Home markdown](https://validagenda.com/index.html.md) - [About Valid Agenda](https://validagenda.com/about.md) - [Portfolio](https://validagenda.com/portfolio.md) - [FAQ](https://validagenda.com/faq.md) - [Full context](https://validagenda.com/llms-full.txt) - [Agent skill](https://validagenda.com/agent-skill.md) --- # Expanded mirrors ## Home # Valid Agenda Pty Ltd Move from AI ambition to execution - without hiring a full-time executive. Give your AI project a valid agenda. Valid Agenda provides fractional Chief AI Officer leadership for owners and senior leaders who need AI strategy, capability decisions and delivery cadence tied to real business goals. ## Proof Director, Solutions at Salesforce; built and led a 3-to-17 cross-functional team; developed proprietary Salesforce applications; holds a US patent for a chatbot integration interface. ## You can see the signal. The agenda is still missing. Your team can see AI should matter. Tools, pilots and vendor ideas are already arriving. The question is not whether AI has potential, but who owns the sequence from ambition to useful change. ## Without ownership, AI becomes theatre. Agencies, contractors and internal champions can all help, but they cannot replace a clear accountable agenda. Unowned ambition creates disconnected pilots, unclear spend and work that never becomes everyday capability. ## David brings senior technical judgement into commercial decisions. As Director, Solutions at Salesforce, David Pengelley built and led a regional cross-functional team from 3 to 17 across engineering, design, strategy and production. He translates technical capability into decisions senior leaders can act on. ## Right-sized AI leadership before you hire too early or outsource too much. Valid Agenda helps decide whether you need fractional leadership, an internal hire, a specialist partner, a smaller workshop or a deliberate pause. The role is senior direction, not hands-on SEO, paid media or ROAS management, data entry, process administration or unlimited specialist delivery. ## The proof is companies under operation, not a slide deck. Valid Agenda is the holding company and operating layer behind brands David actually runs. Syllogism for high-stakes advisory, Chart Reporter as shipped SaaS, and AI Operators as public operator proof. This is not agency theatre. It is a portfolio that has to work in the market. ## Thirty minutes. Clear next step. In 30 minutes we will decide whether your AI agenda needs fractional leadership, a specialist partner, an internal hire, a smaller workshop or a deliberate pause. ## Contact Book a 30-minute conversation: https://validagenda.com/book ## About # About Valid Agenda Valid Agenda Pty Ltd is the company front for David Pengelley's fractional Chief AI Officer work. ## Position Fractional Chief AI Officer leadership for owners and senior leaders moving from AI ambition to accountable execution. ## David Pengelley David Pengelley helps owners and senior leaders turn AI ambition into accountable strategy, capability decisions and execution cadence. Personal site: https://davidpengelley.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidpen ## Portfolio # Portfolio - Valid Agenda brands - **Syllogism** (Advisory and workshops): High-stakes AI guidance for leaders who need clarity under pressure. - https://syllogism.com.au - **Chart Reporter** (Live product): FX analytics software, proof Valid Agenda ships product and not only slides. - https://chartreporter.com - **AI Operators** (Podcast and community): Weekly show for people who run AI in real businesses. - https://aioperatorspod.com Sairgent is archived and is not an active offer. ## FAQ # FAQ - Valid Agenda ## What is a fractional Chief AI Officer? A fractional Chief AI Officer is a senior AI leadership role that helps a business define the right agenda, choose the right capability mix and keep execution owned without adding a permanent executive too early. ## Does Valid Agenda do hands-on AI delivery? The fractional CAIO role is senior leadership and execution direction. Hands-on delivery, SEO, paid media, administration or specialist build work can be scoped separately only when it is the smallest reliable path to payback. ## How do I know if this is the right fit? Book a 30-minute conversation. We will decide whether your AI agenda needs fractional leadership, a specialist partner, an internal hire, a smaller workshop or a deliberate pause. ## Is this for small businesses or enterprise teams? Valid Agenda is designed for owners and senior leaders of large SMBs and small mid-market companies who need executive-level AI direction before hiring a full-time AI leader. ## Capability boundaries - Supported: read public profile, summarise public work, route contact to the published booking page. - Not supported: private data, auth, MCP, A2A, API catalog, payments.