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SCP-3024 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3024
Expected annual
$3.5M
One-time setup
$4.8M
Annual recurring
$3.4M
Personnel
29
Initial setup (engineering, lab buildout, secure facilities) is capital-intensive (~$4.8M), with recurring annual operations driven by staff, TRIREEF hosting, legal/liaison, contingency and facility overhead (~$3.42M/yr). Main drivers are R&D and lab buildout, TRIREEF hosting and staffing, and contingency/legal/response budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.8M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.5M
[#6] Development and laboratory R&D for Amnestic-SEP14 including memetics-safe lab buildout, instruments, controlled-testing infrastructure and compliance-related lab setup.
Facilities $1.0M
[#5, #8] Secure memetics testing facility buildout and physical archival vault structural work (vault) and related site outfitting.
Trireef Initial Development $600K
[#1] TRIREEF initial development: web-scraping pipeline, ML model, labeled dataset, annotation tooling, developer salaries and initial model evaluation (one-time project).
Equipment $480K
[#5, #12, #14, #17, #20, #23, #24] Air-gapped storage hardware and write-once backups (#5), field response equipment (#12), cybersecurity hardware/HSMs (#14), psychological services setup (#17), backup/DR hardware setup (#20), one-time public cover campaign development (#23), initial sanitized-archive tooling (#24).
Field Response Training Program $200K
[#12] One-time training program for HMCL supervisors / deploy teams and initial equipment procurement not captured in equipment line.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.4M/yr
Staff Wages $1.7M/yr
[#3, #4, #11, #15, #16] Ongoing salaries for ML engineers/annotators (#3), 24/7 manual content-analyst triage team (#4), covert online operatives (#11), red-team/test coordinators (#15), and multidisciplinary research team (#16).
Cover Story And Legal $470K/yr
[#9, #10, #23] Legal/regulatory retainer and takedown operations (#9), platform liaison & covert influence budgets (#10), and recurring public-facing cover/PR maintenance (#23).
Contingency Fund $400K/yr
[#21] Flexible discretionary budget for extraordinary/jurisdictional actions, emergency buys, third-party contractors, and other unplanned expenses.
Research And Monitoring $220K/yr
[#2, #19] TRIREEF continuous hosting, crawling, inference compute and bandwidth (#2) plus forensic logging/audit storage and compliance documentation operations (#19).
Logistics And Transport $175K/yr
[#13, #18] Rapid deployment travel & accommodation readiness fund (#13) and annualized content removal/sanitization operational costs (#18).
Facilities Maintenance $160K/yr
[#5, #8, #25] Maintenance and environmental control for archival vaults and memetics testing facility, plus energy/facilities overhead allocations.
Cybersecurity And Opsec $70K/yr
[#14] Recurring monitoring, patching, intrusion detection, secure comms, and incident response for TRIREEF and program infrastructure.
Supplies And Consumables $60K/yr
[#7] Production/inventory replenishment for Amnestic-SEP14 consumables and deployment disposables.
Insurance And Liability $60K/yr
[#22] Insurance, indemnities and liability reserves for personnel, accidental releases, and cooperating third parties.
Psychological Support $55K/yr
[#17] Recurring counseling, assessments, post-exposure debriefs and resilience programming for staff.
Training And Exercises $50K/yr
[#12] Recurring refresher training and scenario exercises for field response teams.
Sanitized Archiving Maintenance $25K/yr
[#24] Maintenance for sanitized derivative archives and controlled publication systems for research access.
Backup And Disaster Recovery $15K/yr
[#20] Off-site backups, cold-storage redundancy and DR plan maintenance for TRIREEF and evidence repositories.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.4M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal operational year without major incidents; ongoing TRIREEF monitoring, routine legal/liaison activity, staffing, and maintenance.
steady monitoring no major community-wide incidents routine legal takedowns
🚨 Minor Incident $3.7M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Localized or moderate incident requiring accelerated takedowns, increased travel, ad-hoc legal work and surge staffing for cleanup.
coordinated mirror propagation platform resistance to takedown rapid relocation across jurisdictions
🚨 Major Breach $5.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Event requiring physical capture/containment action or extensive clinical validation of Amnestic-SEP14; large-scale contracting, emergency operations and possible significant litigation.
need for physical apprehension/capture extensive clinical trials for Amnestic-SEP14 prolonged multi-jurisdiction litigation
👥 Personnel 29 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 5 [#16] Senior researchers (linguists, memeticists, data scientists) advising containment and producing analysis.
ML Engineer 3 [#3] Engineers maintaining TRIREEF models, retraining pipelines and handling concept drift.
Data Annotator 5 [#3] Ongoing annotators/labelers for dataset maintenance and retraining cycles.
Content Analyst / Triage 8 [#4] Manual triage team validating TRIREEF flags with 24/7 coverage while SCP location unknown.
Covert Online Operative 6 [#11] Operatives running sockpuppets/covert accounts to track SCP-3024 and perform remediation online.
Red-team / Test Coordinator 2 [#15] Small team conducting safe exposure testing, simulations and oversight of memetic tests.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, enabling a reasoned estimate; however large ranges on R&D, contingency and single-incident legal/litigation costs introduce significant uncertainty.
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