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SCP-3804 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3804
Expected annual
$13.0M
One-time setup
$62.7M
Annual recurring
$11.9M
Personnel
20
Initial program deployment is capital-intensive due to DEINOPIS integration and provider cooperation; recurring costs are driven by AI operations, dedicated MTF staffing, and per-incident remediation/medical responses. Total one-time deployment is dominated by software/hardware integration and potential provider buy-ins, while annual operations are roughly $12M driven by personnel and compute/monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $62.7M
Provider Cooperation $30.0M
[#14] One-time provider cooperation / buy-ins or large hush payments to major email providers for deep integration or buy-in across regions.
Equipment $26.2M
[#1, #3, #4, #6] DEINOPIS integration & deployment (large-scale engineering and initial deployments), secure archival hardware (air-gapped servers/encrypted vault hardware), DEINOPIS redundancy/hot-site failover one-time costs, and MTF Mu-4 operational procurement (vehicles, secure comms, laptops, surveillance gear).
Capex Reserve $5.0M
[#26] Unexpected long-tail incidents / capex reserve for rapid scaling of detection or remediation systems.
International Contingency Seed $1.0M
[#20] Seed fund for international compliance and political contingency to enable initial diplomatic/contingency actions.
Facilities $200K
[#25] Containment facility fit-out for secure interview/holding rooms, utilities and overhead; one-time fit-out estimate.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $175K
[#15] Forensic lab and research setup costs for cognitive/memetics research, instrumentation and initial materials.
Secure Persona Creation $80K
[#17] Creation of covert legal personas, fake websites, DNS registration and initial bait content generation.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $11.9M/yr
Deinopis Operations $3.5M/yr
[#2] Ongoing DEINOPIS compute, storage, model retraining, monitoring, logging, SRE and 24/7 support for continuous email scanning and anomaly triage.
Staff Wages $2.5M/yr
[#5] MTF Mu-4 staffing (salaries, benefits, pensions) for an estimated 20-person multidisciplinary team (cyberops, digital forensics, field agents, medical, supervisors).
Medical Liability And Insurance $1.0M/yr
[#12] Program-level medical liability, malpractice mitigation and indemnities / insurance reserve.
Research And Monitoring $800K/yr
[#15] Forensic research staff and operations (cognitive scientists, memetics researchers, linguists) for ongoing analysis and mitigation research.
Cover Story And Legal $500K/yr
[#13] Program-level covert legal / cover-up operations budget to provide cover stories, legal teams and compensations per notable incident.
Pr Misinformation Contingency $500K/yr
[#23] Public relations and misinformation operations contingency budget for major leak responses.
Capex Reserve Replenish $500K/yr
[#26] Ongoing replenishment for long-tail incident reserve fund to allow rapid scaling when used.
Logistics And Transport $408K/yr
[#7] Per-incident field containment travel, lodging and per-diem annualized (assumes ~28 domestic + 2 international responses per year at selected average costs).
Mtf Overhead $300K/yr
[#6] MTF Mu-4 operational overhead (maintenance of vehicles, secure comms, travel budget, routine training cycles) annualized.
Digital Remediation Annual $300K/yr
[#8] Annualized digital remediation and data purging (deleting instances, scrubbing backups, emergency takedowns/hacking) assuming multiple incidents per year at variable provider cooperation.
Monitoring And Intervention Budget $300K/yr
[#18] Monitoring and audit of corporate incident response changes and budget for remediation actions.
International Contingency Replenish $250K/yr
[#20] Annual replenishment / usage of international compliance & political contingency fund.
Employee Vetting And Ci $200K/yr
[#22] Employee vetting, counterintelligence and insider-risk mitigation for DEINOPIS/Mu-4 staff.
Logging And Audit Retention $150K/yr
[#21] Logging, legal hold and audit retention for oversight bodies and secure review infrastructure.
Deinopis Dr $125K/yr
[#4] Ongoing redundancy/disaster recovery costs (hot-site failover, backups, incident recovery) annualized.
Red Team Testing $100K/yr
[#16] Red-team / simulation testing budget for simulated internal instances, test subject compensation and infrastructure.
Amnestic Agents Annual $90K/yr
[#9] Procurement and formulation of pharmacological amnestics annualized (assumes ~30 administrations/year at selected average cost).
Medical Administration Annual $90K/yr
[#10] Medical staff and facility costs for amnestic administration annualized (doctors/nurses, monitoring equipment, short-term observation).
Facilities Maintenance $75K/yr
[#25] Ongoing facility overhead, utilities and minor maintenance for secure interview/holding rooms and short-term observation spaces.
Post Amnestic Followup Annual $60K/yr
[#11] Post-amnestic counseling, follow-up care and potential sick leave/rehabilitation annualized.
Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr
[#24] Consumables and minor equipment for field teams and medical supplies (amnesty kits, syringes, PPE, evidence bags).
Secure Archival Maintenance $30K/yr
[#3] Maintenance, replication and physical security costs for secure archival vaults and stored instance copies.
Evidence Chain Of Custody Annual $30K/yr
[#19] Program-level costs for secure transport and chain-of-custody actions annualized.
Secure Persona Maintenance $5K/yr
[#17] Annual maintenance for secure legal personas, honeypots and related infrastructure.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $11.9M/yr
28.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, expected incident flow and standard remediation costs.
routine detections cooperative providers no major international incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $12.2M/yr
60.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
One or more notable domestic incidents requiring elevated field response, extra amnestic administrations and legal/PR actions.
domestic mass read non-routine legal/PR intervention
🚨 International Incident $13.9M/yr
9.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Cross-border incident(s) requiring diplomatic cover, international covert action, and larger logistics/transport costs.
international recipients read instances need for diplomatic/contingency funds
🚨 Provider Escalation $36.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Major non-cooperation by email providers forcing large-scale covert operations or expensive buy-ins to stop propagation.
widespread provider refusal to cooperate need for offensive insertion or large hush payments
👥 Personnel 20 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#5] Field agents responsible for locating and securing recipients and carrying out containment.
Cyberops / Digital Forensics 4 [#5, #2] Cyber operations and forensics staff for inbox tracing, remediation and digital takedowns.
Research Scientist 2 [#15] Memetics/cognitive researchers analyzing SCP-3804 content and propagation mechanics.
Medical Officer 2 [#9, #10] Medical staff for amnestic administration and monitoring.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#5] Program supervision and coordination with oversight/legal teams.
Administrative Staff 1 [#21] Administrative and audit/logging support for legal hold and oversight reporting.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges aggregated to mid/high-concern scenarios; many items (provider cooperation, incident frequency and amnestic costs) have wide ranges leading to moderate confidence.
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