Crux Advisory Group
Strategic counsel at the crossroads of Washington, Silicon Valley, and Rome.
Crux operates at the crossroads of Washington—where law is written and political coalitions are built; Silicon Valley—where the technologies reshaping human life are designed; and Rome—where two millennia of moral tradition speak to what those technologies should become. The firm advises principals, foundations, family offices, and institutional clients on AI ethics and governance, legal and political strategy, and faith-sector engagement.
Three Cities.
One Crossroads.
About Devan
Devan N. Patel is the founder and president of Crux Advisory Group, a strategic firm operating at the intersection of Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C., and Rome — three cities whose decisions will together shape the technical, legal, and moral architecture of the AI age.
As the founding senior advisor of public policy and ethics at American Security Fund, he convened more than forty Jewish and Christian faith leaders, national security officials, and policy experts at the Vatican, producing a signed international joint declaration on actionable AI ethics principles. He currently serves as the Joseph Rainey Center’s visiting fellow for tech ethics and democracy.
In Washington, Devan builds and deploys coalitions to drive policy, litigation, and cultural outcomes. He architected the bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 and secured the broadest statutory religious liberty protections in three decades through amendments to the Respect for Marriage Act. He co-led the conservative coalition for the Kids Online Safety Act and advises foundations and family offices on legal and political strategy.
Devan teaches as an adjunct at Notre Dame Law School and is a founding member of the Federalist Society’s AI & Law Working Group and a fellow at Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The first in his family to graduate from college, he grew up in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the grandson of Indian immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island with $17, their faith, and a belief in the American Dream.