We are Weather Gage Advisory.

Helping you steer and navigate emerging risks and opportunities at the intersection of policy and technology.

Our
Values

Trust

We begin with mutual trust. Our clients come to us with complex policy challenges in the emerging technology space. Trust is a prerequisite for how we develop successful strategies for our client relationships.

Clarity

The rules for frontier technology are still being written. We provide clarity on the evolving policy landscape, and help our clients best leverage these realities to generate real opportunities for growth and thought leadership.

Insight

Effectiveness means anticipating and interpreting shifts in policymaker approaches. We recognize our clients need help separating signal from noise. Insightfulness is a core value for how we support our clients.

Purpose

Every mission has a start, middle, and end. Understanding how we reinforce our client’s broader strategies is core to our approach. Purpose, grounded in clear milestones, is critical to tangible success.

Core Competencies

  • Weather Gage can help you build a foundational policy footprint for your government affairs and advocacy needs. Leveraging over a decade of policy expertise, we can lead stakeholder mapping, legislative analysis, regulatory tracking, and association engagement to ensure you have the most accurate understanding of the right constellation of decision makers, their priorities, and how those intersect with your own policy needs.

  • Weather Gage excels at crafting data-rich policy narratives, and can help you build bespoke thought leadership to buttress your existing advocacy. Be it honing supporting arguments for regulatory filings and testimony, authoring educational policymaker briefings, or building tailored impact reports, Weather Gage can craft messaging and products that support optimal policy outcomes.

  • Weather Gage excels in working directly with clients to dynamically build out public policy campaigns. This work leverages best-in-class consulting approaches grounded in project milestone architectures, and can be tailored to best reflect client needs, such as leveraging coalitions, external outreach, and targeted advocacy.

LEADERSHIP

Weather Gage Advisory is led by Dave Rubin, who believes smarter, data-rich, and informed policy approaches are critical to maximizing the benefits of emerging technology.

Dave brings over 11 years of experience across tech, consulting, and government, with expertise spanning policy research and analysis, political risk management, campaign development and implementation, and direct advocacy.

Before founding Weather Gage, Dave served as Head of Policy Research at Cruise, an autonomous vehicle technology developer in San Francisco, where he worked for five years. In that capacity, Dave oversaw policy advocacy, thought leadership, partnership development, and collaborative research with universities and think tanks. He spearheaded all Cruise’s policy engagement on energy, electrification, sustainability, and decarbonization, and managed emerging policy risks around privacy, cybersecurity, AI tech, and international competitiveness.

He was previously at The Asia Group, a strategic advisory consultancy in Washington DC, for six years, helping Fortune 100 clients navigate complex political and policy challenges spanning regulatory redress, brand rehabilitation, market entry, and legislative advocacy.

Dave holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, concentrating in Economics and Energy, Resources, and the Environment, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from American University.

He lives in San Francisco, California with his wife Zoë and their dog, Bella.