KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS not the risky part of this proposal; the behavioural wager is, and the economics are structured so that they hold comfortably as long as the wager does. WHAT THE MODEL SHOWS One-time, milestone-gated capitalisation; a people-and-coordination operating cost with a rounding-error AI bill that falls yearly, and shared revenue lines that grow with every program until they cover the operating cost. In the base case the machine reaches self-sufficiency on schedule; in every case the AI is the cheapest part of it. 261