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SCP-2361 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2361
Expected annual
$14.8M
One-time setup
$10.3M
Annual recurring
$14.7M
Personnel
69
Initial one-time program buildout is approximately $10.3M driven by facility, imaging, vehicles, and contingency reserve costs; ongoing annual costs are approximately $14.1M dominated by personnel (rapid-response teams and specialist staff), legal/cover operations, and contingency/settlement reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $10.3M
Contingency Reserve $3.0M
[#23] Program-level contingency / emergency reserve fund (initial allocation, midpoint).
Equipment $2.6M
[#2] Purchase of high-field fMRI (~$2.5M midpoint) and high-density EEG systems (~$95k midpoint).
Facilities $1.9M
[#1] Dedicated secure containment / research facility buildout (vaults, cleanrooms, environmental controls, CCTV, antechambers) estimated at midpoint of provided range.
Rapid Response Team Setup $720K
[#5] Per-team equipment & vehicle setup (~$120k per team × 6 teams assumed).
Forensics Setup $575K
[#11] Mobile autopsy kit purchases (~3 kits) and clandestine forensic lab outfitting (midpoint).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $375K
[#1, #22] Lab benches, controlled experimental suites and engineering for experimental containment / deliberate-production protocols (includes fail-safes and inspections setup).
Vehicles $360K
[#19] Purchase of 6 dedicated vans/SUVs (~$60k each midpoint).
It Security Setup $250K
[#21] One-time IT security defensive tooling, secure comms hardware and initial anti-leak tooling deployment.
Data Center Setup $210K
[#3] One-time secure data center / monitoring pipeline setup (initial ingestion, logging, encryption, ML infra).
Ocr Pipeline Setup $138K
[#16] OCR/image-recognition pipeline initial training and deployment (midpoint estimate).
Amnestic Setup $100K
[#10] Pharmacy/secure storage and administration setup for Class-C amnestics (one-time storage/equipment).
Artifact Preservation Setup $88K
[#20] Archival boxes, inert-gas cabinets, humidity control setup for preserved boards/books (midpoint).
Evidence Kits Setup $60K
[#14] Portable evidence/Go-safe kit purchase for field teams (~$10k per team × 6 teams assumed).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $14.7M/yr
Staff Wages $6.5M/yr
[#3, #5, #6, #7, #8, #11, #15, #21] Salaries and fully-loaded personnel costs: rapid-response teams (6 teams × ~6 personnel), Level-4 researchers, security guards, research scientists/technicians, pathologist retainers, translators/bibliographers, sysadmin/DevOps, IT security staff (aggregated from itemized estimates).
Insurance And Overhead $2.4M/yr
[#24] Institutional overhead, insurance, benefits and indirect costs estimated at ~20% of recurring operational/staff costs.
Compensation And Settlements $2.0M/yr
[#13] Program-level contingency for payouts, settlements, and confidentiality payments (annual budgeted replenishment rather than one-off incident-only spend).
Cover Story And Legal $1.2M/yr
[#4, #12] Legal retainers and media/PR operations to maintain 'stroke' narrative and handle institutional/regulatory arrangements and outreach.
Research And Monitoring $650K/yr
[#2, #3, #9, #15, #16, #17] Data-center/cloud compute and ML ops, contracted MRI-hours budget, professional Go consultants retainers, subscriptions and bibliographic acquisition, OCR operations, and training/drills tied to research monitoring.
Medical Records Access $600K/yr
[#4] Recurring legal/covert arrangements, data-access fees and partnerships for authorized access to regional hospital reporting systems (recurring component of item #4).
Contingency Replenish $500K/yr
[#23] Annual replenishment target for reserve used to cover large unexpected incidents.
Logistics And Transport $410K/yr
[#5, #18, #19] Travel, secure shipping, armored/secure transport, and ongoing vehicle ops/maintenance for field teams and evidence transport.
Supplies And Consumables $275K/yr
[#10, #11, #14, #20, #25] Amnestic procurement and medical supplies, forensic consumables, field-kit replacements, preservation consumables, and miscellaneous consumables.
It Security $175K/yr
[#21] Ongoing IT security staffing, monitoring, anti-leak operations, and tooling upkeep.
Facilities Maintenance $90K/yr
[#20, #22] Ongoing building and experimental-suite maintenance, containment inspections, and climate-control for archives.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $14.7M/yr
89.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with ongoing monitoring, regular experiments, and no major incidents.
routine_surveillance scheduled_experiments regular_training
🚨 Minor Incident $14.7M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$0 vs baseline
Localized flagged fatality or small cluster requiring additional rapid-response operations, extra imaging, amnestic administrations, and modest settlements.
single_fatality_flag localized_cluster hospital_exposure
🚨 Major Breach $19.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$4.4M vs baseline
Significant multi-site exposure or media leak triggering mass response, large settlements, emergency international operations and substantial reserve use.
multiple_fatalities media_leak cross-border_incident
👥 Personnel 69 total
Role Count Notes
Level-4 Personnel 4 [#6] Senior researchers/ops leads required to supervise experiments and approve contact; rotation to meet policy minimums.
Security Officer / Guard 10 [#7] On-site 24/7 guarding for holdings and access control (8–12 estimated; midpoint used).
Research Scientist / Neuropsychologist 5 [#8] Staff to run experiments, interpret EEG/fMRI, and develop protocols (3–6 estimated; midpoint used).
Rapid Response Field Team Member 36 [#5] 6 regional teams × ~6 personnel each (medic, security, containment tech, field researcher) for flagged incidents; includes on-call responders.
Sysadmin / DevOps 2 [#3] Staff operating the secure data ingestion, ML pipeline, and monitoring infrastructure.
Translators / Bibliographers 3 [#15] Multilingual monitoring staff for Go publications and acquisitions (2–4 estimated).
Pathologist / Forensic Specialist (retainer) 2 [#11] Pathologists on retainer for covert autopsies and forensic handling.
IT Security Specialist 2 [#21] Defensive cybersecurity, anti-leak monitoring, and secure comms operations.
Administrative / Legal / PR Staff 3 [#4, #12] Personnel handling legal retainers, PR, hospital liaison, and record-access negotiations.
Medical Officers (central) 2 [#10] Central medical staff for amnestic administration, training and emergency medical oversight (field medics are counted in rapid-response teams).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates use midpoints of wide published ranges; many costs (legal access, settlements, contingency reserve) are jurisdiction-dependent and high-variance, so overall confidence is medium rather than high.
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