KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS pressing civic behaviours may include ones no one is thinking about today, and a state that owns a configurable civic machine can address them in weeks, while a state that procured seven bespoke apps must start over. That option. The standing capacity to close a feedback loop on whatever civic behaviour next matters; is the most valuable thing the state acquires, and it is precisely the thing a project-by-project accounting cannot see, because it is not any one program but the capability beneath all of them. THE COMPOUNDING CASE Prove the machine once on cleanliness, in public, with an independent assessment published in full. After that, each additional program activates faster, costs a fraction as much, and inherits both the credibility and the Reward-Partner-and-patron base of the first. The institution’s value is not the sum of seven programs; it is the option to run the eighth, ninth, and tenth on infrastructure the state already owns. 265