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SCP-4569 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-4569
Expected annual
$1.1M
One-time setup
$232K
Annual recurring
$1.1M
Personnel
8
One-time startup costs are modest (~$232k) driven by secure storage, digitization and protocol setup; recurring annual costs are dominated by staffed security, clinical support, site overhead and research/monitoring (~$1.06M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $232K
Facilities $54K
[#1, #15, #22] Secure safe installation, isolation room fit-out, and phone-locker purchase/installation.
Protocol And Cover Development $40K
[#14] Initial protocol, legal templates, and OPSEC/cover-story package development.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $38K
[#2, #11] Climate-controlled micro-enclosure for the book and digitization/photography lab equipment.
Equipment $35K
[#5, #6, #12] Electronic access/biometrics, CCTV hardware, and air-gapped storage hardware.
Vetting Test Development $35K
[#7] Development/validation of Milgram-like vetting/test infrastructure (one-time development costs).
Transport Per Move One Time $20K
[#24] One-time estimate for a secure acquisition/transport mission (per-move cost assumed for initial move).
Initial Training Development $10K
[#18] Initial development/one-off training costs for handlers and researchers.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.1M/yr
Staff Wages $535K/yr
[#4, #7, #8] Armed security staffing (guards + supervisor), clinical/psychiatric staffing and recurring psych-staff time for vetting/recertification.
Research And Monitoring $272K/yr
[#10, #11, #12, #16, #17, #15, #18, #19, #23, #25] Pre/post exposure medical/psych monitoring, digitization maintenance, secure media handling, EEG/MRI/sleep study budgets, human-subjects compliance board, emergency-response readiness drills, recurring training budget, productivity/replacement contingency, forensic/incident investigation reserve, and archive/repository maintenance.
Facilities Maintenance $170K/yr
[#1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #22] Safe maintenance, micro-enclosure HVAC/monitoring energy, site overhead allocation (prorated), access-control licensing, CCTV storage/maintenance, and phone-locker staffing.
Device Procurement And Destruction $35K/yr
[#13] Purchase of sealed/brand-new recording devices per session and secure destruction/incineration to mitigate metadata/recorder-history leaks.
Supplies And Consumables $25K/yr
[#9, #20, #21] Sedatives/pharmaceuticals and medical consumables, averaged conservation/restoration costs, and controlled-writing consumables/secure disposal.
Cover Story And Legal $20K/yr
[#14] Ongoing legal counsel, OPSEC maintenance and cover-story/legal support.
Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.1M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; regular research, digitization, containment and monitoring continue as planned.
routine exposures/digitizations scheduled maintenance and monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $1.2M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
A medical/psychological adverse event for an exposed subject requiring hospitalization, additional therapy and a small investigation.
severe reaction in a reader short-term hospitalization and forensic review
🚨 Major Breach $1.6M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Operational security failure or public leak leading to major forensic investigation, PR/cover operations, legal costs and increased security measures.
unauthorized exposure/public leak targeted information-aspiring entity exploitation
🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $1.9M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline
Decision to expand human-read exposures to exploit SCP-4569-A's utility, requiring major scale-up of medical, legal and containment resources.
policy change to prioritize direct reads approval to scale human-subject program
👥 Personnel 8 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#4] Four full-time armed guards for round-the-clock coverage (two per shift minimum).
Security Supervisor 1 [#4] One supervisor overseeing guard rotations and access control.
Psychiatrist / Medical Officer 1 [#8, #10] On-call physician/psychiatrist for exposures, sedative management and medical oversight (pro-rata allocation to SCP program).
Clinical Psychologist 1 [#8, #10] Clinical psychologist providing therapy and follow-up to exposed subjects.
Nurse / Medical Support (part-time) 1 [#8] Part-time nursing support during exposures and follow-up care (pro-rata allocation).
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items have ranges and depend on shared/site-pro-rated allocations and uncertain exposure counts; SCP containment model is well-described but exact staffing shares and subject counts are not specified, so estimates are reasonable but not high-confidence.
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