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SCP-4759 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-4759
Expected annual
$50.0M
One-time setup
$11.6M
Annual recurring
$49.2M
Personnel
238
One-time setup costs are moderate (~$11.6M) for HQ, screening, vehicles and research setup; recurring operations are substantial (~$49.2M/yr) driven by state liaison teams, covert influence/legal operations, monitoring and rapid-response logistics.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.6M
Facilities $4.0M
[#1] Secure Program HQ and data center purchase/fitout, classified office/lab space and structural/facility work.
Background Screening $3.5M
[#4] Automated background checks for ~7,400 legislators and deeper investigations for flagged targets (fieldwork).
Equipment $2.3M
[#5, #7, #15, #17, #18] CCTV/shop installs, rapid-response vehicle/equipment purchases, IT/tool deployment, PPE/equipment issue, fleet purchase portion.
One Time Risk Reserve $1.0M
[#21] One-time reserve for indemnities/reputational/legal risk as recommended.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $550K
[#3, #8, #14, #23, #17] Toolchains/corpora and compute, containment coolers/bioboxes, digitization/archival setup, research seed funding, initial training materials.
Legal Retainer $200K
[#11] One-time retainer/setup costs for emergency legal team.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $49.2M/yr
Staff Wages $28.6M/yr
[#2, #7, #3, #11] Salaries & benefits for state liaison teams, rapid-response operators, portions of bill-triage staff and retained legal staff.
Cover Story And Legal $11.0M/yr
[#9, #10, #11, #19, #22, #21] Donut inventory reimbursements/hush payments, covert influence/lobbying budgets, litigation/settlement funds, emergency contingency reserve activation, media cover stories and recurring insurance/indemnities.
Research And Monitoring $5.0M/yr
[#3, #5, #8, #15, #16, #23] Bill triage tools/licenses/compute, CCTV monitoring subscriptions and analysts, forensic analysis budgets, IT security staff/tools, public health liaison, long-term research staff.
Logistics And Transport $2.0M/yr
[#6, #7, #18] Stakeout travel, per-activation response costs (fuel/airlift/overtime), fleet fuel/maintenance/charter costs.
Supplies And Consumables $800K/yr
[#6, #8, #17] Stakeout consumables, per-incident lab/disposal costs, PPE replacement and consumables.
Witness Management Safehouses $625K/yr
[#13] Safehouse overhead, staffing and temporary relocation costs for protected witnesses/legislators.
Medical And Psych Care $525K/yr
[#12] Acute and chronic treatment, allergy testing, counseling and related medical costs for affected legislators/personnel.
Facilities Maintenance $300K/yr
[#1, #14] Ongoing HQ/data center and archival/safehouse maintenance.
Documentation And Admin $300K/yr
[#20] Program management, HR, purchasing, recordkeeping, audits and internal compliance overhead.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $49.2M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, expected numbers of manifestations handled within standard budgets.
routine manifestations no major public exposures normal legislative activity
🚨 Minor Incident $52.2M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
One or more localized exposures or high-profile hearings requiring elevated legal/PR response and extra activations.
localized leak or media story unexpected bill traction small-scale public health disposal event
🚨 Major Breach $64.2M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline
Widespread exposure or a legislative passage event requiring emergency nationwide mobilization, large settlements and major PR/legal campaigns.
multiple simultaneous SCP-4759 passages major public health incident high-profile legal challenges
👥 Personnel 238 total
Role Count Notes
State Liaison / Monitoring Teams 200 [#2] 4 FTE per state × 50 states as assumed in liaison staffing model.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 24 [#7] 4 regional teams assumed (6 operators/team) for rapid-response interventions.
Research Scientist 5 [#3, #23] Bill-triage researchers and long-term research staff.
Data Engineer / Analyst 1 [#3] Data engineer for text ingestion, NLP pipelines and corpora management.
Video Analyst / Surveillance Operator 5 [#5] Analysts for CCTV and sensor monitoring for targeted shops/regions.
Legal Counsel 3 [#11, #10] Emergency legal team and legal support for covert influence/litigation operations.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed operational ranges, but anomalous behavior, per-activation uncertainty, and variability in influence/legal spend introduce moderate uncertainty in totals.
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