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SCP-5190 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-5190
Expected annual
$4.3M
One-time setup
$3.9M
Annual recurring
$4.1M
Personnel
10
Estimated one-time startup costs are roughly $3.9M driven primarily by detection/platform development, contingency reserves, and initial infrastructure; steady-state annual operating costs are about $4.07M/yr driven by personnel, legal/compliance, research operations, and contingency/on-call budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.9M
Equipment $3.4M
[#3, #4, #5, #8, #11, #18, #19, #22] Data-mining development (initial), secure interview & recording kits, initial evidence storage appliance, initial legal/setup fees, vehicle purchases, database development, seed media/legal reserve, and contingency containment escalation reserve (capital).
Facilities $550K
[#6] Conversion of a small facility / safehouse for voluntary study (clinical rooms, observation).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.1M/yr
Staff Wages $1.7M/yr
[#1, #2] Dedicated research team (6 FTEs) and field rapid-response/interview unit (4 FTEs) payroll including benefits.
Research And Monitoring $620K/yr
[#3, #18, #17, #7, #13] Ongoing data-mining/cloud ops and platform maintenance, database ops, small-scale social/behavioral experiments program, forensic & medical testing spend (per-case aggregated), and incident forensics.
Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr
[#8, #9, #15] Legal & liaison team payroll and operations, public cover/information-ops budget, and annual postmortem/administrative handling budget.
Contingency Intervention $300K/yr
[#12] Retainer and overtime budget for on-call intervention/contracted security to respond to incidents.
Facilities Maintenance $180K/yr
[#6, #5, #20] Safehouse upkeep (utilities, cleaning, security), ongoing storage maintenance and backups, and IT power/utilities for servers and observation rooms.
External Contractors $175K/yr
[#23] Occasional external forensic labs, specialists, and consultants on retainer.
Logistics And Transport $165K/yr
[#11, #16] Vehicle fuel/insurance/maintenance and travel/workshops for partner agency education and briefings.
Data Privacy And Compliance $140K/yr
[#14] Cybersecurity, audits, and compliance staff to handle sensitive data use and legal fronting.
Ethical Oversight $80K/yr
[#24] Compensation for oversight board members, review, and legal counsel time.
Training And Psych Support $60K/yr
[#10] Specialized interviewing training and employee assistance/psychological support for staff.
Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr
[#21] Medical disposables, PPE, evidence bags, batteries, storage media, printing.
Record Modification Per Case $10K/yr
[#25] Expected baseline annual spend on low-cost administrative record modifications or small payments per case (aggregated estimate).
Media Legal Reserve Replenish $0/yr
[#19] Seed legal/media reserve is one-time; no scheduled annual replenishment assumed in baseline.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.1M/yr
69.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with routine research, interviews, maintenance, and occasional low-severity cases.
routine_operations isolated_cases no escalations
🚨 Minor Incident $4.3M/yr
25.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Isolated high-attention incident requiring extra forensic work, overtime, legal action, and short-term PR response.
isolated_criminal_act local_media_attention
🚨 Major Cluster $6.6M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Clustered surge in suspected instances requiring temporary scaling of safehouses, surge hiring/contractors, and significant use of escalation reserves.
localized_prevalence_spike coordinated_incidents
🚨 Large Escalation $9.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Severe multi-site escalation where instances' effects produce widespread attention and require major containment scaling and legal/PR interventions.
multi-site_exposure major_public_exposure
👥 Personnel 10 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 6 Includes epidemiologists, cognitive psychologists, a data scientist, and one senior anomalous-effects researcher (mapped to #1).
Field Investigator / Interview Specialist 4 Mobile rapid-response team for interviews, evidence collection, and low-risk interventions (mapped to #2).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide many line-item estimates and reasonable midpoints, but numerous per-case ranges and uncertain incident rates require assumptions (moderate confidence).
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