SCP-4116 — SCP-4116 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-4116 Safe ~ medium confidence

SCP-4116

Expected annual

$6.1M

One-time setup

$1.5M

Annual recurring

$6.1M

Personnel

20.5

Initial capital of approximately $1.47M primarily for clinic/lab buildout, secure data and research lab setup; recurring annual costs ~ $6.06M driven by staff wages, research, medical care, legal/cover operations and a maintained contingency reserve for mass-exposure response.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.5M

Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K

[#15] Laboratory research setup for antimemetic/protective pharmacology (labs, equipment, animal-model prep).

Facilities $300K

[#1] Dedicated sleep lab buildout (soundproof rooms, secure entry, adjacent medical bay).

Equipment $150K

[#2] Polysomnography machines for 4 beds (clinical-grade PSG hardware and permanent monitoring hardware).

Cover Clinic Setup $150K

[#22] One-time setup costs for a small front clinic / cover facility.

Secure Data Infrastructure $100K

[#3] Air-gapped servers, encrypted storage deployment and hardened backups / physical vaults (one-time deployment costs).

Mobile Response Vehicle $90K

[#5] Vehicle and portable PSG kit initial purchase for rapid-deployment team.

Legal Initial $50K

[#8] Initial setup of legal cover identities and covert medical records / PLA paperwork.

Fake Publication Fee $50K

[#10] Initial commissioning of a forged epidemiological / psychological 'paper' and supporting materials.

Forensic Tools Initial $40K

[#27] Initial purchase/contracting for deception-detection and forensic-linguistics tools/consultants.

Comms Setup $30K

[#29] Secure communications setup (encrypted radios, SATCOM, burner provisioning) initial costs.

Interview Room Hardening $10K

[#11] One-time hardening (soundproofing, leak prevention) for secure interview rooms.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.1M/yr

Contingency Mass Exposure Fund $2.0M/yr

[#9, #13, #23] Annual reserve allocation for rapid large-scale amnesticization, emergency PR buys and legal settlements in a mass-exposure event.

Staff Wages $1.2M/yr

[#4, #6, #16, #19] Salaries for clinical staff (sleep technicians, nurses), clinicians/interviewers, linguistics analysts, security guards and related on-call medical staff.

Compensation Reserve $500K/yr

[#13] Annual allocation to a compensation/hush-fund reserve for settlements and incentives.

Research And Monitoring $400K/yr

[#15, #16, #24] Ongoing research program costs for antimemetic countermeasures, data analysis, and monitoring/archival support.

Ptsd Care $400K/yr

[#12] Ongoing mental-health care (CBT, trauma therapy, medication) for victims based on expected caseload.

Cover Facility Operations $300K/yr

[#22] Recurring operating costs (leases, staffing, plausibility maintenance) for front clinics.

Cover Story And Legal $200K/yr

[#8, #10] Annual legal counsel, maintenance of covert records, and baseline cover-story activities.

Emergency Medical Reserve $150K/yr

[#18] Reserve for ER treatments, imaging and trauma care for serious incidents.

Audit And Oversight $125K/yr

[#20] Internal audit, oversight board administration and memetic-safety compliance monitoring.

Logistics And Transport $120K/yr

[#5, #17] Mobile response operational costs, patient transfer costs and vehicle operation.

Supplies And Consumables $100K/yr

[#2, #7] PSG disposables, electrodes, medical consumables, syringes and routine medical supplies.

Insurance And Liability $100K/yr

[#25] Liability coverage and equivalent risk-transfer / self-insurance budgeting.

Public Health Surveillance $90K/yr

[#21] Social-media monitoring, software and analysts to detect clusters of night-terror reports.

Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr

[#1, #22] Ongoing maintenance and utilities for sleep lab and cover clinic facilities.

Amnestic Procurement $60K/yr

[#7] Purchase/manufacture and administration costs for amnestic agents (baseline caseload).

Disinformation Contingency $50K/yr

[#9] Maintain a small standing budget for rapid-targeted disinformation/PR buys; larger spends are contingency scenarios.

Interview And Transcription Staffing $30K/yr

[#11] Ongoing staffing for secure interviews, transcriptionists and archive staff.

Archival Indexing $30K/yr

[#24] Cataloguing, indexing, and metadata tagging of recorded dream transcripts.

Forensic Services $20K/yr

[#27] Recurring costs for forensic-linguistics and deception-detection services.

Translation Consultation $20K/yr

[#28] Translation and cross-cultural consultation for non-English dream transcripts.

Employee Support $20K/yr

[#26] Personnel counseling, debriefing and health monitoring for staff repeatedly exposed to traumatic material.

Training Memetic Safety $15K/yr

[#14] Recurring staff training and memetic-safety workshops.

Communications Maintenance $15K/yr

[#29] Ongoing secure-comms / OPSEC maintenance and audits.

Data Infrastructure Maintenance $10K/yr

[#3] Annual maintenance, backups and physical vault upkeep for secure data systems.

Documentation Destruction $10K/yr

[#30] Secure shredding, data-wiping and controlled destruction of records.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.1M/yr

91.0% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year: routine monitoring, documentation, research, and maintaining contingency reserves without a public incident.

no public awareness caseload within expected bounds no major incidents

🚨 Minor Incident $6.5M/yr

6.0% probability / year +$400K vs baseline

Localized publicity or a small cluster requiring targeted disinformation, extra amnestic administrations and victim care.

local news coverage cluster of cases in a community small-scale legal/PR response required

🚨 Major Breach $11.1M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Significant public exposure or mass-awareness event requiring national-scale disinformation, mass amnesticization, large legal settlements and emergency medical response.

national media attention mass-exposure or linked violent incidents large-scale legal pressure

🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $7.1M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline

Discovery that warrants rapid expansion of research and trials (scale-up of antimemetic countermeasure R&D and staffing).

promising antimemetic lead need for clinical trials expanded lab capacity

👥 Personnel 20.5 total

Role	Count	Notes
Sleep Technician	2	[#4] Overnight monitoring and PSG operation staff.
Neurologist / Psychiatrist (on-call, FTE fraction)	0.25	[#4] Pro-rated on-call neurologist/psychiatrist coverage.
Nurse	1	[#4] Nursing support for overnight monitoring and emergency response.
Mobile Response Team Member	3	[#5, #17] Rapid-deployment medical/security/interviewer personnel (rotating team).
Clinician / Interviewer	3	[#6] Trained psychologists/interviewers for dream documentation and immediate post-affliction interviews.
Linguistics Analyst	2	[#16] Analysts for narrative comparison and transcript analysis.
Research Scientist	2	[#15] Staff for antimemetic/protective pharmacology research.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	4	[#19] Guards for access control, transfers and site security.
Transcriptionist / Archive Staff	1	[#11, #24] Transcription and archival indexing of dream material.
Audit / Oversight Staff	1	[#20] Internal audit and ethics compliance personnel.
Anesthesiologist / Medical Officer (on-call, FTE fraction)	0.25	[#7] Medical oversight for amnestic administration (pro-rated on-call).
Administrative Staff / Legal Liaison	1	[#8] Admin and legal support to maintain cover operations and records.

📋 Confidence Notes

Notes provide detailed line items and ranges for most costs, allowing reasonable mid-point estimates; uncertainty remains around caseload, frequency of public incidents, and scale of contingency/disinformation responses, so confidence is medium.

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