SCP-3433 Euclid ? low confidence
SCP-3433
Expected annual
$7.0M
One-time setup
$7.0M
Annual recurring
$6.8M
Personnel
43
Estimated one-time setup cost is approximately $7.05M driven by facility retrofit, research lab setup, reserves and acquisition/containment one-offs; steady-state annual costs are approximately $6.77M, dominated by staff wages, legal/media/cover operations, AI/platform operations, transaction fees and cybersecurity.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.0M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.0M
[#21] Research lab & memetics lab setup (fMRI/EEG infrastructure, lab buildout) - mid-range estimate.
Contingency Catastrophe Reserve $2.0M
[#29] Containment failure catastrophe reserve (recommended minimum reserve fund).
Provenance Campaign $500K
[#20] Initial investigative/provenance recovery campaign to locate additional works.
Insurance Reserve $500K
[#19] Initial captive-insurer/reserve fund seed for liability (recommended minimum).
Public Deception Fund $500K
[#26] Transactional/retrieval fund for quiet purchases, buyouts or cooperative retrievals (baseline fund).
Ai System Development $400K
[#5] Development & initial deployment of Foundation-owned AI purchase/sale system (mid-range).
Facilities $300K
[#2] Storage Unit 14 retrofit / vault upgrade (HVAC to museum standards, inert-gas suppression, reinforcement, sensor integration). Mid-range retrofit assumed.
Legal Accounting Setup $200K
[#11] Setup for shell entities, legal structuring and cover accounting (mid-range).
Amnestic Stockpile $125K
[#14] Initial amnestic stockpile purchase and training for emergency use.
Armed Response Team Setup $120K
[#4] One-time equipment and initial training for specialized armed/rapid-response team.
Data Archival System $100K
[#25] Hardened archival storage system (air-gapped/offsite) setup.
Backup Power And Ups $80K
[#22] Generator & UPS purchase and installation for redundancy (mid-range).
Web Setup $60K
[#9] One-time e-commerce platform setup and initial secure hosting configuration.
Psych Setup $50K
[#16] Psychological screening program development and initial staff training.
Documentation And Training $50K
[#27] Development of containment documentation, manuals and initial training materials.
Cctv And Sensors $40K
[#23] Camera & sensor install for Storage Unit 14 and AI operational center (mid-range).
Equipment $24K
[#1] Museum-grade glass containment cases for paintings: ~$8,000 each; assumes 3 confirmed paintings → $24,000.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.8M/yr
Staff Wages $2.1M/yr
[#3, #6, #7, #21, #24] 24/7 onsite security staffing (~7 guards/supervisor), 3 sysadmins + manager, designated employee on-call stipends partially counted as compensation, research team salaries (memetics team), and SOC staffing component. Aggregate of direct wage/compensation items.
Cover Story And Legal $850K/yr
[#11, #12, #26] Annual legal retainers, cover-story maintenance, media/PR operations and deception maintenance budgets (media-management + legal/accounting upkeep + public deception activities).
Research And Monitoring $700K/yr
[#21] Recurring research operating costs (studies, imaging time, lab consumables) excluding core research salaries included under staff_wages.
Transaction Fees $500K/yr
[#10] Transaction processing, merchant fees and escrow costs — highly variable; mid-range assumed (could be near-zero if internal ledger used or multi-millions if external processors used extensively).
Long Term Care And Compensation $500K/yr
[#15] Relocation, care and compensation contingency for affected personnel/families.
Digital Forensics Monitoring $350K/yr
[#13] Annual digital & physical record suppression/forensics team budget and monitoring.
Insurance Retainer $350K/yr
[#19] Annual legal/insurance retainer and captive insurance maintenance costs.
Cybersecurity $225K/yr
[#24] Tooling, red-team engagements and non-salary cybersecurity costs (SOC staffing portion included in staff_wages).
Armed Response Readiness $180K/yr
[#4] Annual readiness exercises, training refreshers and consumable gear for armed/rapid-response team.
Web Hosting And Infra $150K/yr
[#9] Hosting, DDoS protection, backups, logging and covert transaction infrastructure.
Provenance Monitoring $150K/yr
[#20] Ongoing investigative monitoring and low-level recovery effort budget.
Ai System Maintenance $100K/yr
[#5] Ongoing tuning, updates and secure ops for the purchasing AI.
Amnestic Replenishment $100K/yr
[#14] Annual replenishment and administration of amnestic agents and medical treatments.
Catastrophe Reserve Replenishment $100K/yr
[#29] Annual replenishment target for catastrophic-exposure contingency reserve.
Annual Audit $95K/yr
[#30] Annual independent review/audit by Secure Art/Containment board (travel & expert fees).
Psych Services $65K/yr
[#16] Ongoing counseling, screening and wellness services for staff at risk.
Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr
[#2, #22, #23] Ongoing HVAC/humidity maintenance for Storage Unit 14, backup power fuel/maintenance, and basic sensor/CCTV upkeep.
Manual Purchase Surge Contingency $50K/yr
[#8] Annual contingency to cover overtime/travel/productivity loss during AI failure manual-purchase surge events.
Training Drills $40K/yr
[#27] Periodic drills, refreshers and containment exercise costs.
Logistics And Transport $25K/yr
[#18] Secure art transport, insured courier services for occasional inter-site transfers.
Data Archival Maintenance $25K/yr
[#25] Ongoing archival replication, offsite copies and maintenance of hardened records.
Supplies And Consumables $20K/yr
[#28] PPE, packing materials, small consumables and routine supplies.
Conservation $9K/yr
[#17] Periodic conservator visits and condition checks (assumes ~3 paintings × ~$3k each/yr).
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.8M/yr
74.0% probability / year
Normal year with steady containment operations and no major incidents.
no major AI failure no large media exposure routine operations only
🚨 Minor Incident $6.9M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Short AI failure or small local incident requiring manual purchase surge, limited media attention and forensic follow-up.
AI outage requiring manual purchases local media attention short forensic/amnestic response
🚨 Major Breach $8.3M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Violent or high-profile ownership incident causing national attention, significant forensic & media operations, legal actions and amnestic deployments.
national media exposure physical breach or violent owner widespread record-suppression required
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $16.8M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Large-scale simultaneous exposures or multi-site incidents requiring catastrophic reserve activation, mass amnestics and interagency operations.
multi-site exposure national/international attention massive filesystem/records loss requiring emergency response
👥 Personnel 43 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 7 [#3] 3 shifts, 2 guards/shift + 1 supervisor dedicated to Storage Unit 14 (7 total).
System Administrator / Ops 4 [#6] 3 sysadmins for 24/7 AI monitoring + 1 senior manager (4 total).
SOC / Cybersecurity Staff 3 [#24] SOC personnel providing continuous monitoring and incident response (staffing portion included in staff_wages).
Research Scientist 6 [#21] Memetics/neuroscience research team engaged in mechanism studies (salaries included in staff_wages aggregate).
Designated Employees (manual purchase) 20 [#7] 20 designated accounts/employees who manually purchase if AI fails; included in headcount and stipend budgeting.
Conservator (contracted) 1 [#17] Professional conservator for condition checks and restoration (often contracted/part-time).
Administrative / Legal Liaisons 2 [#11,#30] Administrative and legal liaisons to manage shell entities, audits, and cover finances (supplemented by external retainers).
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items in source notes are wide ranges and depend heavily on unknowns (number of paintings, frequency/severity of incidents, choice of external payment processors vs internal ledger). Several assumptions were made (3 known paintings, mid-range selections) producing large uncertainty.
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