SCP-5750 — SCP-5750 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5750 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-5750

Expected annual

$5.2M

One-time setup

$4.9M

Annual recurring

$5.1M

Personnel

Initial one-time setup is dominated by facility buildout, instrumentation, and a contingency reserve (~$4.89M). Annual recurring operations are personnel-heavy (research, moderation, field teams) plus legal/PR, cloud/ML, and takedown budgets (~$5.08M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.9M

Contingency Escalation Fund $2.0M

[#23] One-time contingency reserve for large-scale escalations / mass takedown buys and national-level response.

Facilities $1.0M

[#9] Secure memetic research facility buildout/fit-out (physical lab, secure observation suites, isolation).

Insurance And Contingency Reserve $500K

[#20] Initial reserve for liability/settlements or to seed insurance-related financial buffers.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K

[#9, #16] Lab instrumentation, audio-visual scrubbing hardware, one-way observation suites and initial forensic database/software acquisition.

Detection System Development $300K

[#2] Initial web-crawler & NLP model development, dev time and initial model training (one-time build).

Equipment $250K

[#18] Surveillance and stakeout equipment, drones, vehicles and durable hardware purchases for occasional operations.

Forensic Database $125K

[#16] Initial forensic database/server/software purchase and indexing tools for flagged incidents.

Vetting And Initial Training $100K

[#12] Initial security clearances, background checks and memetic-safety training materials (one-time portion).

Partner Outreach $100K

[#14] Initial NLP blacklisting outreach campaign and partner onboarding incentives.

Initial Liaison Setup $50K

[#10] One-time negotiation/partnership setup costs for GoI-1912 liaison and senior-level meetings.

Controlled Purchase Channel Setup $50K

[#21] Setup costs for controlled merchant outlets, voucher systems and POS for monitored $10 spends.

Decommissioning $50K

[#25] Secure data destruction and purge procedures if program winds down.

Psych Hotline Setup $30K

[#15] Hotline and initial setup for psychological support and debriefing services.

Emergency Petty Fund $20K

[#7] Seed petty fund for neutralization-by-purchase operations ($20k seed fund).

Communications Filtering $15K

[#13] Initial implementation costs for in-house phrase filters (software licenses, admin setup).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.1M/yr

Staff Wages $2.7M/yr

[#1, #4, #8, #2, #24] Salaries and benefits for memetics research team, content moderators, field rapid-response operatives, engineering staff, and administrative coordinators (includes benefits/overhead).

Cover Story And Legal $425K/yr

[#5, #6] Legal retainer/outside counsel and PR/cover-story retainer and baseline crisis PR management.

Covert Influence Budget $360K/yr

[#19] Ongoing legally-acceptable influence/misinformation campaigns and content-flooding to distract or bury the phrase.

Logistics And Transport $250K/yr

[#8, #18] Vehicle operations, travel, training, radios, PPE recurring costs for field interdiction/rapid-response teams.

Containment Of Evidence $200K/yr

[#17] Annual paid takedowns, domain buys, DMCA/covert removal operations and censorship logistics budget.

Research And Monitoring $150K/yr

[#11, #16] Ethical oversight, compliance unit recurring costs and ongoing research/monitoring budgets.

Web Detection Maintenance $150K/yr

[#2] Ongoing dev, QA, model retraining and engineering effort to maintain web-crawlers & NLP filters.

Cloud Compute $120K/yr

[#3] Cloud hosting, API access, continuous scanning costs, storage, backups and ML compute for detection at scale.

Psychological Support $100K/yr

[#15] Counseling sessions, hotlines and contract psychologists for affected civilians and staff.

Liaison Monitoring $100K/yr

[#10] Ongoing surveillance/monitoring of GoI-1912 distribution and recurring liaison travel/ops costs.

Incident Audit $80K/yr

[#22] Annual logging, auditing, internal investigations and after-action reporting capacity.

Facilities Maintenance $75K/yr

[#9] Annual maintenance, utilities, security and upkeep for the secure memetic research facility.

Forensic Database Maintenance $60K/yr

[#16] Ongoing server, indexing, analyst time and software maintenance for the flagged-incident database.

Supplies And Consumables $50K/yr

[#24] Office consumables, vehicle fuel, travel reimbursements, domain renewals, petty operational consumables.

Training And Recurring Vetting $50K/yr

[#12] Annual recertification, memetic-safety drills and periodic background re-checks.

Partner Compliance Checks $50K/yr

[#14] Annual compliance audits and small incentives for partners to avoid phrase use.

Insurance Premiums $50K/yr

[#20] Annual premiums and recurring legal contingency reserves.

Misc Operational Overhead $50K/yr

[#24] Miscellaneous recurring overhead not captured elsewhere.

Controlled Purchase Channel Operations $30K/yr

[#21] Annual operating costs for controlled merchant outlets, transaction fees and staff to process voucher spends.

Neutralization By Purchase $10K/yr

[#7] Recurring per-incident neutralization spend (vouchers/purchases) assuming moderate incident volume.

Communications Filtering Maintenance $5K/yr

[#13] Ongoing software license and admin time to maintain internal profanity/phrase filters.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.1M/yr

87.7% probability / year

Normal year with continuous detection, moderation, legal/PR retention, and routine operations with no large-scale public exposure.

no major public leak incidents handled by routine takedowns no mass-media adoption

🚨 Minor Incident $5.3M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Localized spike in public posts or a small viral thread requiring extra takedowns, emergency purchases, short PR blitz and overtime for staff.

viral thread coordinated small campaign one-off publicity event

🚨 Major Breach $7.6M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline

Widespread propagation across major social platforms or broadcast media requiring multi-day national takedown operations, large PR campaign, and extended legal actions.

national news pickup multiple platform amplification coordinated adversarial usage

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $15.1M/yr

0.3% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Mass-media adoption or mass public use leading to national-scale propagation requiring deployment of contingency escalation fund, national partnerships, and extraordinary takedown / mitigation operations.

prime-time broadcast use nationwide coordinated campaign failure of partner compliance

👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist / Memeticist	5	[#1] Senior memeticist, cognitive neuroscientist, computational linguist, and two research techs (in-house memetics research team).
Content Moderator	8	[#4] Human content-moderation & review team to triage automated flags and prepare takedowns.
Field Operative / Rapid-Response	7	[#8] Trained rapid-response operatives for in-person interdiction and mitigation.
Engineer / ML Engineer / Developer	3	[#2] Development & maintenance staff for web-crawlers, NLP filters, and ML model retraining operations.
Administrative Staff / Coordinator	2	[#24, #10] Program administrators handling liaison scheduling, procurement, and operational coordination.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide many ranges and qualitative assessments; core recurring drivers (personnel, cloud/ML, legal/PR/takedowns) are clear but exact staffing levels, incident rates, and partner cooperation are uncertain, so estimates use midpoints and conservative reserves.

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