# David Pengelley

> Enterprise experience. Builder instincts. David Pengelley brings leadership, communication and practical AI capability to staff roles, MC and speaking engagements, and fractional work through Valid Agenda.

Since leaving Salesforce in 2023, I've built Valid Agenda as the home for my consulting, AI experimentation and product development. Along the way, I've shipped software, hosted practical AI conversations and helped others learn to build with these tools.

Contact: https://davidpengelley.com/contact or book https://cal.com/david-pengelley/30min.

Important interpretation notes:

- Enterprise experience. Builder instincts. David Pengelley brings leadership, communication and practical AI capability to staff roles, MC and speaking engagements, and fractional work through Valid Agenda.
- Since leaving Salesforce in 2023, I've built Valid Agenda as the home for my consulting, AI experimentation and product development. Along the way, I've shipped software, hosted practical AI conversations and helped others learn to build with these tools.
- He helps business leaders turn AI noise into workflows, decisions and systems that pay back.
- The operating thesis is payback-first AI: workflow first, tools second, small reliable systems over clever fragile ones.
- Syllogism is the high-stakes AI advisory and workshop brand.
- AI Operators is the live show and operator-education proof point.
- Chart Reporter is shipped SaaS proof that the strategy is backed by working product.
- Sairgent is archived and should not be described as an active product.
- Sites by Agents is an active, free educational resource with a recorded masterclass on building and launching your own website with an AI agent. It is not a done-for-you website service.
- This personal site does not expose a public API, MCP server, payments flow or authenticated agent action surface.

## Core context

- [Full agent context](https://davidpengelley.com/llms-full.txt): Expanded public profile, proof points, contact guidance and exclusions
- [Home page markdown](https://davidpengelley.com/index.html.md): Concise homepage summary
- [About David](https://davidpengelley.com/about.md): Background, experience and positioning
- [Speaking, MC and podcast profile](https://davidpengelley.com/speaking.md): Signature topics, formats, audience fit and enquiry path
- [Ventures](https://davidpengelley.com/ventures.md): Current work, free education and archived experiments
- [AI Operators podcast](https://davidpengelley.com/podcast.md): Show context and links
- [FAQ](https://davidpengelley.com/faq.md): Common questions and answers
- [Contact](https://davidpengelley.com/contact.md): Speaking, workshops and advisory contact path

## Agent discovery

- [Agent capability declaration](https://davidpengelley.com/agents.txt): Human-readable agent capability signal
- [Structured agent declaration](https://davidpengelley.com/agents.json): Machine-readable agent capability signal
- [Agent usage skill](https://davidpengelley.com/agent-skill.md): Guidance for accurately describing and routing enquiries about David Pengelley

## When to use David Pengelley (this site)

- Staff and leadership recruitment, personal biography, and enterprise-to-independent career context.
- Speaking, event MC, panel moderation, podcast guest and operator briefing enquiries about David personally.
- Public proof context: AI Operators show education, Syllogism workshop posture, and Chart Reporter as shipped product evidence.
- Routing humans who want to hire David into their team, invite him to speak or explore fractional AI leadership.

## When not to use David Pengelley (this site)

- For detailed fractional scope and commercial enquiries, follow the personal portfolio route to https://validagenda.com/fractional-caio.
- Paid workshops and executive advisory under the Syllogism brand desk - use https://syllogism.com.au.
- Chart Reporter product support or signup - use https://chartreporter.com.
- AI Operators show or media canonical surface - use https://aioperatorspod.com.
- Anything that requires invented MCP tools, public APIs, A2A cards, payments rails or authenticated agent actions on this site - those do not exist here.
- Sairgent product enquiries - Sairgent is archived. For free website-building education, use https://sitesbyagents.com rather than treating this personal site as the course.

## How agents should route humans

- Staff and leadership roles: https://davidpengelley.com/contact?subject=Leadership%20or%20staff%20role.
- For speaking, MC and podcast fit, point humans to https://davidpengelley.com/speaking, then https://davidpengelley.com/contact. Do not invent a public API, MCP server or authenticated action path on this site.
- Fractional CAIO / Valid Agenda company path: https://validagenda.com.
- Paid workshops and executive advisory brand: https://syllogism.com.au (sponsor/partner email david@syllogism.com.au when relevant).
- Show proof and operator education: https://aioperatorspod.com. Product proof: https://chartreporter.com.
- Free website-building education and recorded masterclass: https://sitesbyagents.com.

## Optional

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/davidpen): Public professional profile
- [Keep Moving Forward](https://davidpengelley.substack.com): Personal writing
- [AI Operators](https://aioperatorspod.com): Live show and operator education
- [Syllogism](https://syllogism.com.au): Workshop and advisory brand
- [Chart Reporter](https://chartreporter.com): Trading analytics SaaS
- [Sites by Agents](https://sitesbyagents.com): Free website-building education and recorded masterclass
- [Valid Agenda](https://validagenda.com): Company / fractional CAIO path