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SCP-1433 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-1433
Expected annual
$1.9M
One-time setup
$570K
Annual recurring
$1.9M
Personnel
11
Initial one-time containment, laboratory setup and monitoring development are estimated at ~$570,000; ongoing yearly operating costs are dominated by staff wages, digital surveillance and research/medical monitoring at ~$1,856,500/yr.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $570K
Automated Monitoring Development $200K
[#13] One-time development of crawler/audio-fingerprint detection system and anomaly detectors.
Facilities $118K
[#1, #2, #3] Safe purchase & installation, one-time archival conservation assessment, and construction of a fully soundproofed testing chamber.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $105K
[#6, #17] EEG purchase and calibration plus forensic audio laboratory equipment (anechoic enclosures, high-resolution digitizers, workstations).
Equipment $102K
[#4, #5, #12, #16, #23] Playback-isolation rig, dedicated playback/recording redundancy, initial inventory/confiscation lockers & hardware, portable incinerator purchase, and initial hardened IT/appliance purchase.
Initial Buyback Legal Setup $25K
[#21] Initial legal/cover-story setup and an initial buyback/buffer fund for purchasing suspicious media (one-time allocation).
Policy Rollout And Initial Training $14K
[#11] One-time policy implementation, signage, documentation and initial staff training rollout.
Initial Emergency Drills $5K
[#24] Initial emergency drill setup and PPE purchase.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.9M/yr
Staff Wages $985K/yr
[#8, #10, #14, #17] Salaries & benefits for research personnel (PI, postdoc), dedicated security/guard staffing, manual monitoring/analyst team, and dedicated forensic analyst(s).
Research And Monitoring $340K/yr
[#7, #13, #18, #19] fMRI/advanced imaging program (contracted scans), automated monitoring cloud/ops, medical monitoring for exposed personnel, and amnestic/memory-management case budgets.
Liability And Contingency Reserve $200K/yr
[#22] Annual replenishment for liability, emergency response and contingency reserves (leak/whistleblower/major incident funds).
D Class Handling $110K/yr
[#9] D-class intake/processing, housing, guards, testing logistics and per-subject operational costs (assumes ~2 actively used D-class subjects).
Cover Story And Legal $100K/yr
[#21] Ongoing legal/PR/cover operations, buybacks, takedown requests and counsel for suppressing public spread.
Logistics And Transport $72K/yr
[#15, #16, #20] Annual contingency for field retrieval/confiscation operations, contracted destruction/incineration operating costs, and termination/conscription field op contingencies.
Supplies And Consumables $24K/yr
[#6, #12, #24, #25] EEG consumables/maintenance, inventory/confiscation system upkeep, recurring drill supplies, and miscellaneous consumables (evidence bags, tape maintenance, batteries).
It And Secure Documentation $12K/yr
[#23] Ongoing maintenance, backups, encryption and secure air-gapped archival system upkeep for non-audio records and metadata.
Facilities Maintenance $7K/yr
[#1, #2, #3] Ongoing maintenance for safe/alarm systems, environmental controls for archival media, and periodic maintenance of soundproofed chamber.
Training And Compliance $6K/yr
[#11] Annual refresher training, compliance audits and signage updates.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.9M/yr
96.5% probability / year
Normal year with no major distribution event; routine monitoring, research and site operations only.
no leaks single-site containment routine monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $2.1M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized leak or small online upload leading to a modest retrieval and medical-response campaign.
localized online upload collector sale discovered small cluster of civilian exposures
🚨 Major Breach $3.4M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Widespread distribution (digital or mass physical sales) causing many civilian exposures, large-scale retrievals and expanded clinical research response.
widespread online distribution mass civilian exposures publicity/leak
👥 Personnel 11 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 2 [#8] Senior PI and one postdoctoral researcher dedicated to studying SCP-1433 and overseeing experiments.
Audio Engineer / Forensics 1 [#8, #17] Dedicated audio forensics engineer for digitization, spectral analysis and playback isolation procedures.
Clinical Psychologist (part-time) 1 [#8, #18] Part-time clinical psychologist for acute and long-term psychological care of exposed personnel (not full FTE but counted as 1 head).
Manual Analyst / Monitoring Team 3 [#14, #13] 2–4 analysts (modeled as 3) for manual monitoring of used/physical media markets, tipline triage and incident handling.
Forensic Lab Technician / Analyst 1 [#17] Dedicated analyst for forensic lab operation and high-resolution analysis.
Security Officer / Guard 3 [#10] 2–4 incremental guards for archive access control; modeled as 3 to cover shifts and training.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are built from analyst-provided ranges and canonical containment procedures; many line items have wide institutional choices (buy vs contract, monitoring intensity, incident rates) leading to moderate uncertainty.
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