[#30] High-end contingency reserve for large-scale public intervention or escalation (nationwide campaigns, legislative action, mass technical interventions).

[#4, #10, #14, #24, #23] Includes secure IT hardware/datacenter racks (#4), vehicle procurement for field teams (#10), covert sensor/site installs (#14), site UPS/generator (#24), and archival hardware (#23).

[#19] Initial reserve fund for surge deployments and rapid-response operations.

[#6] Initial development of webcrawlers, scrapers, and monitoring integration for transcripts, streaming, and social platforms.

[#8] One-time dataset collection, annotation, and model training infrastructure to detect SCP-4093 gesture sequence.

[#16] One-time creation of content, campaign strategy, seeded assets and initial influencer/ad buys to establish public explanation.

[#2] One-time hiring, background checks, onboarding costs for 3–6 technical staff (data scientists, CV engineers, sysadmins).

[#3, #12] Small lab buildout and initial experimental rig/equipment for physiological assays and sample processing.

[#20] Initial SOP and training material development and initial rollout.

[#26] One-time costs for tool localization, baseline translations, and region-specific setup.

[#1, #2] Salaries, benefits, payroll taxes, and overhead for 10 researchers, PI/admin support, and ~3–6 technical staff plus baseline field/security support and on-call overtime.

[#5, #6, #7, #8, #15, #23, #27, #29] Secure IT/cloud ops and GPUs (#5), ongoing webcrawler maintenance (#6), media monitoring subscriptions (#7), CV inference/retraining costs (#8), purchased data feeds (#15), archival storage recurring costs (#23), ethical/oversight audits (#27), and expanded/long-term research budgeting (#29).

[#16, #17, #18, #21, #22, #25] Ongoing disinformation ad buys and account operation (#16), legal/public affairs support for takedowns and FOIA responses (#17), covert community outreach and informant stipends (#18), public records/fabrication maintenance (#21), communications/counter-leak operations (#22), and liaison/covert partnership costs with local agencies (#25).

[#10, #11] Recurring fuel/maintenance/insurance for field vehicles, travel/lodging/per-diem for site evaluations and field investigations.

[#19] Ongoing replenishment target for rapid-response funding after deployments or incident spending.

[#9, #12, #28] Data labeling/human review, per-subject assay consumables for trials, and small lab/field consumables (PPE, tubes, disposables).

[#3] Secure office/lab rental, utilities, janitorial, and physical security for research team and small lab.

[#14] Annual maintenance, data links, and support for covertly installed sensors/cameras/RADAR/LiDAR at monitored sites.

[#26] Recurring costs for regional analysts, translations, and localized monitoring in non-English media.

[#13] On-call medics for trials, emergency transport agreements, and liability/malpractice insurance for staged interactions and volunteers.

[#20] Refresher training, SOP updates, and de-escalation/field training courses.

[#24] Fuel and maintenance contracts for backup generators/UPS systems.