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SCP-6679 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-6679
Expected annual
$7.9M
One-time setup
$10.1M
Annual recurring
$7.9M
Personnel
24
First-year capital and R&D costs are dominated by amnestic countermeasure development and a large contingency buyout fund (~$10.12M one-time). Ongoing annual operations (webcrawler, staffing, cloud compute, legal/PR, medical readiness) are substantial at about $7.85M/year, driven primarily by specialized personnel and 24/7 webops/monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $10.1M
Contingency Fund $5.2M
[#24] One-time reserved contingency fund for mass exposure / runaway virality responses (mid-range of recommended reserve).
Amnestic R And D $1.8M
[#5] One-time R&D for the amnestic visual agent including lab testing, safety trials, and containment for cognitohazardous tech.
Ip Acquisition $1.2M
[#10] One-time budget for potential purchase/buyout of distribution rights (mid-range estimate).
Webcrawler Platform $425K
[#1] One-time development costs for I/O TheTrueMeaning: hardened crawler software, secure hosting, indemnities and initial ops tooling.
Ml System Build $375K
[#3] One-time build/training of fingerprinting and ML detection models, tooling and initial GPU training costs.
Deployment Tooling $250K
[#6] One-time build of secure deployment connectors and QA/rollback tooling for third-party pages.
Containment Testing Build $240K
[#13] One-time build of isolated viewing booth, EO/IR cameras, remote viewing systems and emergency dispensers.
Field Operation Per Op $150K
[#17] One-time per-operation cost for emergency removal / raid operations when physical media or localized sources are seized.
Attribution Operation Cost $125K
[#11] Per-operation one-time cost estimate for sustained attribution or targeted takedown forensic ops.
Takedown Integration $95K
[#4] One-time integration with platform APIs, legal template creation, and automation plumbing.
Backup Redundancy One Time $90K
[#18] One-time costs for off-site mirrored containment and cold storage setup.
Site Storage Equipment $70K
[#12] One-time air-gapped workstation, write-once storage, Faraday shielding, write-blockers and secure archives for Site-219.
Secure Logging System $50K
[#23] One-time secure logging / tamper-proof archival system for chain-of-custody and evidence preservation.
Equipment $0
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Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.9M/yr
Staff Wages $3.6M/yr
[#7, #11, #14, #8] Annual wages for on-call webops/SOC, cyber-investigation team, memetics researchers and community moderators (aggregated staffing costs).
Cover Story And Legal $771K/yr
[#4, #9, #23] Recurring takedown/legal operations, retainers/settlements/platform cooperation budgets, and forensic logging maintenance.
Pr And Disinformation $550K/yr
[#21] Recurring PR/disinformation operations budget to suppress secondary spread and manage public narratives.
Medical And Amnestics $475K/yr
[#15] Medical monitoring, psychiatric care, routine amnestic supplies, and an incident reserve for exposed personnel and civilians.
Research And Monitoring $455K/yr
[#3, #5, #13] Ongoing ML inference/model maintenance, amnestic updates/audits, and containment-testing operations when testing occurs.
Facilities Maintenance $449K/yr
[#12, #16, #18, #19] Recurring integrity checks, Site-219 security equipment maintenance, backup redundancy upkeep, and energy/utility costs for servers and storage.
Logistics And Transport $400K/yr
[#17] Readiness costs for emergency removal & field operations teams and logistics for rapid response deployments.
Social Media Tooling $375K/yr
[#8] Recurring tooling/platform costs for social monitoring and moderation infrastructure (separate from moderator wages).
Supplies And Consumables $225K/yr
[#25] Office leases, software licenses, insurance, consumables and general administrative overhead.
Webcrawler Operations $198K/yr
[#1] Recurring operations, hosting and maintenance costs for I/O TheTrueMeaning (monthly ops and minor maintenance team).
Ethics And Oversight $115K/yr
[#20] Recurring ethics reviews, memetics safety audits, and external expert oversight.
Deployment Tooling Ops $108K/yr
[#6] Recurring costs to run and monitor secure deployment tooling for amnestic agent (connectors, monitoring).
Cloud Compute And Storage $102K/yr
[#2] Recurring cloud compute, bandwidth and storage for high-frequency scanning and temporary caches.
Training Drills $70K/yr
[#22] Annual training, drills and tabletop exercises for webops, field teams, medics and research staff.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.9M/yr
92.0% probability / year
Normal year with continuous daily uploads contained by routine operations; no major breaches or mass exposures.
daily uploads contained no major virality standard staffing and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $8.5M/yr
7.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Localized or short-lived viral spread requiring emergency takedown, limited field ops, extra legal/PR work and additional medical treatments.
one or more uploads bypass initial takedowns localized virality requiring targeted buys/takedowns moderate medical/amnestic treatments
🚨 Major Viral Outbreak $12.9M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Widespread runaway virality requiring global emergency response: mass amnestic deployment, large buyouts, major PR and mass medical treatment.
widespread international virality failure of platform cooperation mass exposure events
👥 Personnel 24 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Memetics Researcher 8 [#14, #5, #13] Specialized memetics researchers for amnestic R&D, testing approvals and containment protocols (CRV>=6 required).
Web Operations / SOC Engineer 6 [#7, #1, #6] 24/7 webops and SOC engineers maintaining crawler, rapid-response tooling and deployment systems.
Cyber Investigator / Forensics 4 [#11, #17] Forensic investigation team to attribute uploaders, identify botnets and support field operations.
Social Media Moderator / Community Moderator 5 [#8] Human moderators to triage forum threads, community-hosted content and apply community-level amnestic measures.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#14, #16] Senior site/containment leadership overseeing operations, security coordination and liaison with legal/PR.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items are well-scoped (cloud, staffing, monitoring), supporting medium confidence; however large uncertainties remain around amnestic R&D cost, IP buyout scale, and the size/treatment of a major viral event which prevent a 'high' rating.
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