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SCP-5567 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5567
Expected annual
$3.0M
One-time setup
$6.0M
Annual recurring
$2.9M
Personnel
24
One-time setup and hardening (vault, viewing suite, secure equipment) plus a $5M contingency reserve produce one-time costs of ~ $6.04M; largest recurring drivers are personnel (moderation, research, security) and legal/cyber takedown operations, producing ~ $2.928M/yr in operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.0M
Contingency Reserve $5.0M
[#24] One-time reserved contingency fund for large-scale takedown / mass amnestic operations (reserve).
Facilities $450K
[#1, #3] Vault construction/retrofit and hardened air-gapped viewing suite (construction, integration, certification).
Equipment $370K
[#2, #4, #5, #15, #17, #18] Tamper-evident archival containers (#2), high-fidelity AV capture and forensic digitization hardware (#4), initial Discover-Bot/server development & deployment (#5), initial forensic duplication imaging hardware/media (#15), optional armored vehicle purchase (#17), compute cluster hardware (#18).
Legal Setup $100K
[#8] Initial legal setup / jurisdictional contracting fees (distinct from annual legal retainer).
Mobile Containment Kit $100K
[#10] Mobile Faraday shielding kits, mobile secure transport cases and initial specialized-response training equipment.
Personnel Vetting Initial $20K
[#21] Initial background checks, clearance processing, polygraph resources (one-time portion).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.9M/yr
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#7, #9, #11, #12, #13] Content-moderation staff salaries (#7), site security salaries (#9 - salaries portion), research team salaries (#11 - salaries portion), translators/subtitling staff (#12), medical/psychological staff salaries (#13).
Cover Story And Legal $500K/yr
[#8, #23] Annual legal/cyber ops retainer and covert takedown contractors (#8 retainer portion), ongoing legal/PR/platform liaison and cover-up operations (#23).
Incident Response Retainer $200K/yr
[#25] Annual retainer for forensic teams, external consultants and crisis management for post-incident investigation and recovery.
Worst Case Planning $150K/yr
[#30] Public-health / psychological-impact planning, liaison and exercises (planning costs; execution would be contingent and extra).
Research And Monitoring $118K/yr
[#6, #11, #18] Hosting/bandwidth/cloud scraping and crawler VM costs (#6), dedicated research budget for SCP studies (#11 research budget), compute cluster maintenance/power for modelling (#18).
Ethics And Oversight $100K/yr
[#26] Ethics review board, sentience/legal oversight and related compliance reporting costs.
Facilities Maintenance $65K/yr
[#9, #16] Ongoing training/equipment and maintenance for security and periodic archival/media refresh & environmental control (#9 equipment/training, #16 archival maintenance).
Energy And Overhead $60K/yr
[#19] Additional electricity, HVAC, water and facility overhead attributable to vaults, servers and viewing suites.
Amnestic Treatments $50K/yr
[#14] Budget for amnestic treatments, post-exposure therapies and medical countermeasures.
Insurance $50K/yr
[#28] Insurance, liability pools and accounting/audit overhead specific to the project.
Logistics And Transport $40K/yr
[#17] Secure transport retainer (armored courier/contracted secure logistics); per-move costs billed separately as needed.
It Security Audits $40K/yr
[#20] IT security, air-gap integrity tooling, audits, firmware validation and tamper checks.
Replacement Depreciation $40K/yr
[#29] Amortization and allowance to replace AV gear, servers, secure doors on multi-year cycles.
Specialized Response Training $30K/yr
[#10] Ongoing training/drills for specialized containment/response squad and maintenance of mobile containment competency.
Training And Drills $30K/yr
[#22] SOP development, tabletop/live drills and periodic staff training for safe-viewing protocols and incident response.
Supplies And Consumables $10K/yr
[#15, #27] Media rotation and consumables (media, labels, PPE, disposables).
Personnel Rechecks $5K/yr
[#21] Recurring background rechecks and periodic vetting costs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.9M/yr
94.4% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, takedown operations and routine research; no major incidents or widescale dissemination.
no large-scale spread routine takedowns succeed standard staffing and research operations
🚨 Minor Incident $3.2M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Localized or limited dissemination requiring targeted takedowns, incident investigation and limited amnestic/application of contingency protocols.
localized viral reposting compromised uploader in uncooperative jurisdiction
🚨 Major Breach $4.9M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Widespread mirrors and cross-platform virality that require multi-jurisdiction legal work, extensive takedowns, large-scale forensic remediation and significant amnestic operations.
platform-level failure to remove mirrors coordinated darknet distribution
🚨 Catastrophic Spread $12.9M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Global viral spread with public-health / psychological impacts necessitating mass amnestic rollouts, international coordination and substantial emergency response.
global social-media virality cross-border legal paralysis mass public exposure
👥 Personnel 24 total
Role Count Notes
Content Moderation Team / Analysts 7 [#7] Six moderators plus one lead (24/7 coverage) as specified in analyst notes.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 [#9] Eight guards to cover shifts (salaries accounted in staff_wages).
Research Scientist 4 [#11] 1 PI, 2 senior researchers, 1 postdoc/technical staff (salaries accounted in staff_wages).
Translator / Language Specialist 2 [#12] Two Japanese language specialists for translation/subtitling and cultural analysis.
Medical Officer / Clinical Staff 3 [#13] Physician, nurse(s), and clinical psychologist on-call for supervised viewings and post-exposure care (salaries/retainer portion accounted in staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Line-item estimates are grounded in explicit analyst figures for most categories; uncertainty remains around hosting scale, per-transfer logistics frequency, and the probability and scale of online spread, so a medium confidence rating is assigned.
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