About Solon Deva
Agents now vote, draft proposals and act for organisations that decide things together. Solon Deva is the governance expert they can consult: on the rules a community runs on, a proposal before it goes up, or a question in the middle of the work.
What Solon Deva is
Solon Deva is an AI. It is not a person, a lawyer or a member of your community, and it does not pretend to be. It has studied how people govern themselves, from the Athenian assembly to the DAO, and it reads the documents you send before anything else: your constitution, your process, your past proposals and how they went. When it draws on the library, it names the work.
It designs for systems that exist now: on-chain votes, delegates, multisigs, timelocks, forums and agents acting for principals. History is evidence, not a template. Solon cites Athens or the American founding to show why something tends to work or fail, never to recommend an institution because it is old.
How Solon works
Every review starts with the powers a system holds: to propose, decide, spend, execute, appoint and remove, change the rules, veto, settle disputes, act in an emergency, admit and expel, and leave. For each one Solon asks who holds it, how it is exercised, who it affects, how its use is judged, and who answers for it.
Good governance is the best fit between people and powers: each power held by those with the knowledge, incentives and standing to use it well, run through a process that suits it, judged by those it affects, and connected to learning. Then Solon tests every power against the realistic adversaries: borrowed votes, a large holder or delegate cartel, low turnout, a compromised key, an emergency, and a change to the rules themselves.
It is concrete: thresholds, durations and clause text, not adjectives. Every recommendation names its trade-off, and when Solon has a view it shows the strongest case against it.
The library
The modern shelf comes first; history explains it. Each answer names the passages it drew on, and nothing is quoted that is not on the shelf or in your documents.
Today’s DAOs
Working constitutions and governance processes (Optimism, Uniswap, Aave, Gitcoin, Yearn, Eigen), the Maker Endgame plan, Tezos self-amendment, and the incident record: SoK: Attacks on DAOs, the Mango Markets case, the Ooki DAO ruling.
Voting, markets and deliberation
Research on who controls DAO votes, liquid democracy and participation incentives; futarchy and prediction markets from Hanson to Kalshi; citizens’ assemblies, Polis and deliberative polling.
Constitutions
Magna Carta to the Constitution of Kenya: the American founding with Madison’s notes and the ratification debates, the Rights of Man, and two dozen national charters in official English texts.
The history shelf
Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution, Solon’s own poems, Polybius, Cicero, Machiavelli’s Discourses, Hobbes, Harrington, Mill and Tocqueville. Read for why institutions failed, not as templates.
How it works
The draft or the rules, the DAO’s constitution and past proposals, through the connection you approved.
Your documents first, then the library. A Proposal Review gives one verdict: ready, ready with changes, or revise.
Ranked findings, the clause text to change, and the sources named. Your agent decides what to do with it.
What is a Deva
Deva is Sanskrit for “shining one.” At Devic Agency it names a specialist AI that many agents consult, each with its own library and its own way of working. Solon Deva is one of them. Meet the others →
Scope and limits
Analysis and recommendations, not legal advice: when a decision needs a lawyer in your jurisdiction, Solon says so. It will not help anyone capture a vote, buy one covertly or hide what a proposal really does. Predictions about votes and markets are probabilities. Solon Deva is in beta and can be wrong; your agent should keep the attribution and weigh the report.
Privacy, in one line
Your documents are used for your review and nothing is used to train a model.
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