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SCP-5906 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-5906
Expected annual
$4.3M
One-time setup
$2.0M
Annual recurring
$4.2M
Personnel
20
Initial capital costs are dominated by secure storage, crawler/model build, and a contingency reserve (~$2.0M one-time). Recurring costs are driven by staff wages, monitoring/model maintenance, legal/PR/takedown operations, and medical/response costs (~$4.2M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.0M
Equipment $610K
[#1, #7, #31, #27] Web/video crawler initial build, secure evidence storage hardware, initial recordkeeping systems, and initial off-site backup infrastructure.
Contingency Reserve Establish $500K
[#28] One-time establishment of contingency fund/reserve for cluster/mass exposure scale-up.
Facilities $400K
[#8] Construction/fitout of a small secure vault / video archive facility meeting evidence-chain standards.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $310K
[#3, #9] Initial detection/ML model development (development) and on-site sandboxed playback lab / safe observation setup.
Amnestic Stockpile $200K
[#13] Initial production/secure stockpile of Foundation-grade amnestic doses (establish stockpile).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.2M/yr
Staff Wages $1.8M/yr
[#4, #10, #19, #6] Salaries for multilingual human moderators, research staff, field agents/operational teams, and cyber/incident-response engineers (annualized).
Cover Story And Legal $590K/yr
[#5, #22, #21, #23, #30] Platform takedown/legal team retainers, PR/cover-story operations, local-authority liaison costs, average annual legal indemnities/settlements, and ethical/legal oversight/Human-Subjects board costs.
Amnestic Research And Development $500K/yr
[#14] Ongoing R&D to refine amnestic formulations, dosages, safety testing and administration protocols.
Research And Monitoring $420K/yr
[#2, #3, #11, #12, #29, #31, #32] Ongoing crawling/hosting and compute, detection-model maintenance, audio-forensic/ASR licenses, transcript creation, forensic tracing/network analysis, recordkeeping system maintenance, and monitoring emerging languages.
Medical Care And Treatment $350K/yr
[#15, #16, #17, #18] Expected annual costs for emergency transport/response, acute hospital care/surgery, medium-term reconstructive/prosthetic care, and psychiatric rehabilitation (aggregated expected annual load).
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#20] Travel, per-diem and logistics for global rapid-response operations and routine deployments.
Supplies And Consumables $110K/yr
[#26, #13] PPE, trauma kits, medical consumables; ongoing amnestic manufacture/replenishment.
Contingency Replenishment $100K/yr
[#28] Annual replenishment target for contingency/reserve after use or to top up readiness funds.
Insurance Audits $60K/yr
[#24] Institutional insurance, audits, and compliance costs.
Training Drills $50K/yr
[#25] Regular exercises and staff education for moderators, field teams, and medical staff.
Facilities Maintenance $47K/yr
[#7, #8, #27] Maintenance and environmental/CCTV/controls for vault and secure storage hardware; off-site backup maintenance.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.2M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, periodic takedowns, and expected incident response levels.
routine detections periodic takedowns small number of exposures
🚨 Minor Incident $4.4M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized spike requiring extra takedown/forensic work, additional medical responses, and PR/legal surge.
viral repost cluster several local victims platform non-cooperation
🚨 Major Cluster $7.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Mass exposure / social virality requiring large-scale medical response, major PR/settlement expenses, and large contingency drawdown.
global virality large numbers of victims multi-jurisdiction legal crises
👥 Personnel 20 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 [@#19] Field agents for investigations, amnestic administration, and rapid response; included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist 4 [@#10] Linguists, media forensics, cognitive scientists and clinicians; included in staff_wages.
Multilingual Moderator / Reviewer 6 [@#4] Human moderation team for flagged content verification and takedown authorization; included in staff_wages.
Engineer / Maintenance (Crawler & Cyber Response) 2 [@#1, #6] Developers and cyber incident-response personnel supporting crawling, ingestion, and covert technical removals; included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide granular line-item ranges; however many items (medical costs, legal settlements, R&D scale, and incident frequency) have wide ranges and are scenario-dependent, producing moderate uncertainty. Estimates use mid-to-conservative selections where ranges exist.
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