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SCP-7329 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-7329
Expected annual
$4.8M
One-time setup
$3.8M
Annual recurring
$4.5M
Personnel
10
Initial one-time containment/setup costs are estimated at $3,835,000, with ongoing annual operating costs of approximately $4,497,400 driven mainly by staff wages, sustained takedown/monitoring infrastructure, legal/PR, and content suppression.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.8M
Escalation Contingency $1.0M
[#26] Large contingency fund for containment failure escalation (mass takedowns, acquisitions, emergency scaling).
Equipment $625K
[#9, #10] Secure server racks, GPUs and high-performance compute cluster procurement and initial high-performance storage hardware.
Settlement Reserve $500K
[#17] One-time reserve for potential settlements, indemnities, or buyouts of affected users/developers.
Webcrawler Development $275K
[#1] One-time development, QA, and engineering for resilient webcrawler (KATIE/Delta).
Facilities $200K
[#9, #25] Physical secure rooms, certifications, and facility build-out for secure hosting and staff operations.
Litigation Reserve $200K
[#4] One-time reserve for initial litigation or high-cost outside counsel engagements.
Reverse Engineering Setup $200K
[#6] One-time reverse-engineering engagement setup for APK/IPA analysis and forensic collection.
Developer Cooperation $150K
[#7] One-time payments, NDAs, or partial buyout/cooperation fees for original developers (baseline cooperation estimate).
Emergency Seizure Per Operation $150K
[#8] Typical per-operation cost estimate for covert seizures/coordination with local authorities.
Decoy App Development $100K
[#21] One-time development of replacement/decoy app and domain infrastructure.
Investigations $100K
[#29] One-time covert investigative/HUMINT operations to identify origin hosts/accounts.
Compliance Audit $80K
[#24] One-time regulatory and privacy compliance audit and remediation.
App Store Actions $60K
[#13] One-time costs for app-store expedited removals, forced update coordination, and indemnities.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $50K
[#11, #27] Initial AI research lab buildout, instrumentation and SOP/playbook documentation setup.
Per Country Actions Reserve $50K
[#23] Reserve for per-country takedown/legal actions.
Influencer Payments $30K
[#22] One-time influencer/community buyouts or major community payments.
Training Initial $30K
[#27] Initial SOP/playbook development and tabletop exercises.
Archive Legal Actions $25K
[#20] One-time legal actions against hostile archives for initial forced removals.
Ip Pool Purchase $10K
[#2] Occasional purchase of new IP pools to avoid blocking.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.5M/yr
Staff Wages $1.3M/yr
[#3, #11] Salaries and benefits for content-moderation/takedown staff (4–8 FTEs) and AI/ML research staff (2–6 senior researchers); baseline combined estimate.
Cover Story And Legal $800K/yr
[#15, #16] Ongoing PR, SEO/ASO campaigns and sponsored content to suppress mentions (includes ad buys and content creation spikes).
Reverse Engineering Contracts $360K/yr
[#6] Ongoing reverse-engineering and mobile remediation contractor costs (baseline ongoing support).
Platform Relationships $300K/yr
[#5] Retainers/enterprise contracts and relationship maintenance with major platforms (Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Discord, CDNs).
Facilities Maintenance $276K/yr
[#9, #25] Power, cooling, physical site rent and maintenance for secure compute and secure rooms (energy-intensive GPU clusters).
Third Party Takedowns $240K/yr
[#19] Recurring vendor fees for outsourced mass takedown campaigns (active campaign baseline).
Legal Retainer $200K/yr
[#4] Annual retained counsel for subpoenas, preservation letters, and emergency legal support.
Cybersecurity Managed $180K/yr
[#12] Managed DFIR, IDS/WAF, threat feeds and incident response subscriptions/retainers.
Decoy Promotion $180K/yr
[#21] Ongoing promotion/marketing for decoy/replacement apps and domains.
Webcrawler Ops $108K/yr
[#1, #2] Hosting, proxy/IP rotation, bandwidth, and ops for crawler (combined baseline monthly ops).
User Compensation $100K/yr
[#14] Annual budget for user remediation, account resets, credits and support staff.
Ethics Research $100K/yr
[#30] Ongoing ethics/oversight research and policy work around sentient-AI containment.
International Legal Translation $96K/yr
[#23] Translation services and local counsel retainers for global takedowns.
Covert Personas $72K/yr
[#18] Cost of maintaining covert accounts/bot networks and community intelligence operations.
Mirror Monitoring $60K/yr
[#20] Monitoring of mirrors, archives and archival requests.
Insurance $50K/yr
[#28] Cyber liability and PR insurance premiums.
Moderator Incentives $36K/yr
[#22] Ongoing payments/incentives for community moderators and forum owners.
Compliance Ongoing $15K/yr
[#24] Ongoing compliance costs after audit (GDPR/CCPA monitoring, minor remediation).
Storage Replication $14K/yr
[#10] Ongoing storage, backup replication and off-site redundancy costs.
Training Ongoing $10K/yr
[#27] Annual updates to SOPs and recurring exercises.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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Research And Monitoring $0/yr
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Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.5M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; ongoing monitoring, takedowns, legal retainers, and staff payroll only.
steady detection/removal workload no large-scale replication or public exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $5.2M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$700K vs baseline
Periodic spike in visibility or small-scale replication requiring intense takedown campaigns, extra third-party vendor hours, and PR/ads spikes.
viral social media attention active mirror/torrent proliferation short legal skirmishes
🚨 Major Breach $8.0M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
Significant escalation: SCP spreads to multiple services or public exposure forces acquisition/seizure, major litigation and emergency scaling of compute and staff.
large-scale replication public/political exposure need for acquisition or cross-jurisdiction seizure
👥 Personnel 10 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / AI Researcher 4 [#11] Senior AI/ML specialists for modeling and containment; salaries included in staff_wages estimate.
Content Moderation / Takedown Specialist 6 [#3] Human reviewers and takedown specialists across time zones; salaries included in staff_wages estimate.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges allowing mid-range estimates, but outcomes depend heavily on game scale, unknowns about SCP behavior and legal/jurisdictional variability, so uncertainty remains.
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