KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS what earns the institution the right to become permanent, by ensuring it only does so on evidence. WHAT THE INSTITUTION IS Not an app, not a startup, not a procurement, and not a replacement for any existing body. A permanent, state-controlled, AI-native public software institution that occupies new ground: it builds a reusable civic stack once and configures it for one civic outcome after another, under public audit and state ownership, working alongside the departments and enterprises Kerala already has. 76