TRUST IS A REAL THING…

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The RFUTR Ledger

Inventions, discoveries, and releases — in the order they unfold.

Release Origin Field Note Case Study
01

Partnership with PathSight and Cohera

RFUTR enters an exclusive partnership with PathSight Predictive Science and Cohera Systems to build and deploy Community Intelligence.

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02

The Conundrum — and Where This Started

Why the same intervention produces two different results in two different communities, every time — and the twenty-five year path across global health, development, and advertising that led to measuring the reason why.

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03

How We Measure Trust — Miss Carmen

A single resident, a single ZIP+4, and what 174 behavioral indicators actually see when they read a place.

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04

Community Intelligence — The One-Pager

The whole platform, one page, in the order it's meant to run.

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05

Survivability

Why viability has to be scored before capital commits, not audited after it fails.

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06

Friction

Where a behavior-change effort meets resistance, before you spend against it.

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07

Trust Horizon

The moveable middle, replaced with a measured one.

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08

Trust-Based Communications

Messaging built on what the data finds, not an institution's default channel.

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09

Community Trust Measure — Civics

The full package, applied to civic trust-building.

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10

Dark Spots

The bipartisan, value-for-money case for building trust where it's thinnest.

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11

The Civics Engine

How Dark Spots becomes a standing practice, not a one-time campaign.

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12

Trust Architecture

Reading a place before anyone tries to change it.

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13

Scar, Part 2: The Wisconsin Story

Racine and Kenosha — three decades of institutional betrayal, and the elasticity nobody expected to find underneath it.

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14

Trust Flow Health — Services to Those Who Need Them Most

Integrated care, sequenced by trust instead of program calendars — and the ROI that sequencing produces.

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15

Implementation Insurance — MMSD

Milwaukee's $84M resilience-bond structure, and the actuarial case for de-risking by trust instead of policy.

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16

Nature as Infrastructure — SVF, Ridge-to-Reef

A non-partisan conservation banner, from Sun Valley Forum to a federal-scale watershed partnership.

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TRUST BASED DEVELOPMENT
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

TRUST BASED DEVELOPMENT

Our Development practice area is proving a new way of raising capital. Our place based methodology applied to organizations is a next generation Rolodex. Defining and then following trust means an evolution of partnership.

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IMPLEMENTATION INSURANCE
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

IMPLEMENTATION INSURANCE

Our community readiness and index work supports an integrated behavioral layer for behavioral Risk related to Resilience.

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SOCIAL DEFAULT
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

SOCIAL DEFAULT

Every day we wake up and study what it means to live in social default, areas of our world where communities are the most dis-invested. the answers for generating trust there are pathfinder solutions for policymakers, developers, financial backers of communities that need the most support.

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TRUST ARCHITECTURE: PRECISION
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

TRUST ARCHITECTURE: PRECISION

Media professionals: would it be good to know where to spend and where to avoid spending - before you spend? Or even deeper, where and how to spend in order to recoup brand trust?

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CIVIC TRUST ENGINE
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

CIVIC TRUST ENGINE

Understanding Civic Trust, meaning trust as it relates to policy and services and cohesion, etc — is a constant classroom in democracy, authenticity, local understanding and values.

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DARK SPOTS
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

DARK SPOTS

Generating trust in dis-invested places takes work and humility.

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COMMUNITY TRUST MEASURE
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

COMMUNITY TRUST MEASURE

The communities that matter most to mission-aligned investors are the ones whose trust architecture has been most disrupted. They are not unreachable. They have never been read — carefully, behaviorally, from the inside out. That is what Community Trust Measure does.

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TRUST HORIZONS
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

TRUST HORIZONS

We don’t answer who can be moved - we understand who is already facing you and how far will they move. This is a much richer look at the civic flow of ideas.

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FRICTION INDEX
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

FRICTION INDEX

The communities where conventional delivery fails hardest are exactly the ones where trust-network delivery gains the most. The friction is highest where the need is greatest — and the recovery is highest in the same place.

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SURVIVABILITY INDEX
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

SURVIVABILITY INDEX

The first behavioral instrument that predicts whether a community can sustain collective action across a program, investment, or recovery cycle — not just adopt it in year one.

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HOW WE MEASURE TRUST
Kevin Starace Kevin Starace

HOW WE MEASURE TRUST

Five variables. Five questions. Together they produce something no single question could — a measureable picture of how trust actually moves in a community.

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