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.
One of only ten Americans invited to Rome to be with Pope Leo XIV for the public issuance of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Devan concurrently serves as the Joseph Rainey Center’s visiting fellow for tech ethics and democracy. Previously, he was counsel and managing director of public policy at Allegiance Strategies and was the founding senior advisor of public policy and ethics at American Security Foundation, convening more than forty Jewish and Christian faith leaders, national security officials, and policy experts at the Vatican—serving as the original lead author of a signed international joint declaration on actionable AI ethics principles.
In Washington, Devan advises foundations, family offices, faith organizations, and nonprofits on legal and political strategy, building and deploying coalitions to drive policy, litigation, and cultural outcomes. He architected the bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, co-led the successful effort to secure the broadest statutory religious liberty protections in three decades since the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and guided the conservative coalition for the Kids Online Safety Act.
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. 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. The first in his family to graduate from college, he earned his BA in philosophy and political science from George Washington University and his JD from Notre Dame Law School. His mentors at ND Law later became his godparents when he converted to Catholicism. Read more about Devan and his publications here.