SCP-7508 — SCP-7508 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-7508

Expected annual

$507K

One-time setup

$458K

Annual recurring

$500K

Personnel

1.02

One-time capital and setup costs are substantial (~$458.5k) driven by crawler development, contingency reserve, and OPSEC/sterilization setup; recurring annual costs are ~ $499.7k/yr driven by medical care, cover-up/legal, research and purchase/OPSEC operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $458K

Contingency Reserve $250K

[#23] Reserve fund for rapid buybacks, theft recovery, large-scale misuse, or emergency containment buyouts.

Webcrawler Development $100K

[#6] Initial webcrawler/dev/ML pipeline, QA, dashboard and automated purchase integration.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $40K

[#15] Research setup equipment for pathology/toxicology/imaging (biopsy equipment, histology prep, etc.).

It Security Opsec $20K

[#22] Initial OPSEC/IT security setup including penetration test, VPN, SOC configuration.

Facilities $10K

[#1] GSA-class safe, electronic lock, tamper sensors, installation and integration with Site-303 inventory systems.

Ecommerce Setup $10K

[#9] Merchant accounts, payment method setup and initial chargeback buffer/capabilities.

Biohazard Sterilization $10K

[#16] Autoclave/sterilization rig for contaminated coins and medical waste handling.

Front Company Setup $8K

[#10] Legal fees, registration, bank accounts, basic website and initial front-company formation.

Internal Monitoring System $8K

[#21] Initial policy system and software license for internal auditing/misuse-prevention.

Equipment $2K

[#2] Commercial coin-counting hardware purchase.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $500K/yr

Cover Story And Legal $112K/yr

[#10, #19, #20] Front-company maintenance ($2,000/yr), legal retainer ($10,000/yr), and cover-up/witness management reserve ($100,000/yr).

Emergency Medical Care $100K/yr

[#14] ER care, debridement, grafts, antibiotics, psych and follow-up for victims (10 patients/yr at ~$10,000 each).

Research And Monitoring $95K/yr

[#15, #24] Annual research budget for pathology/toxicology/imaging and longitudinal economic/sequence analysis (includes part-time analyst/software $20,000 and research staff/supplies $75,000).

Staff Wages $62K/yr

[#4, #11] 1 FTE procurement/reconciliation specialist (fully loaded $60,000/yr) + weekly verification researcher pro-rata ($1,500/yr).

Field Investigations $30K/yr

[#13] Regional field team deployments, travel, discreet pickups, short-term housing for extractions.

Webcrawler Operations $24K/yr

[#7] Hosting, proxies, anti-bot services, data storage and operational costs for persistent scraping.

Accounting Handling $24K/yr

[#18] Cash-counting, legal/tax compliance, AML monitoring and accounting for generated currency via front company.

Automated Purchase Budget $10K/yr

[#8] Funds reserved to acquire discovered SCP-7508 coins under cover; baseline acquisition budget.

It Security Opsec $10K/yr

[#22] Ongoing IT security, pentests, IDS, incident response and OPSEC monitoring.

Audit And Review $8K/yr

[#25] Annual audit, compliance review, red-team assessment and reporting.

Security And Monitoring $5K/yr

[#5] Incremental Site security allocation for locker (guard time, CCTV monitoring, restricted-access log maintenance).

Ecommerce Operations $5K/yr

[#9] Ongoing merchant/payment operations, dispute handling and chargeback buffers.

Evidence Storage $5K/yr

[#17] Vault space, cataloging, and periodic audits for used/neutralized coins and produced currency.

Internal Monitoring Maintenance $4K/yr

[#21] Ongoing maintenance/licenses and periodic audits for misuse-prevention systems.

Supplies And Consumables $4K/yr

[#3, #26] Coin-counter consumables/calibration and consumables for controlled experiments / wound-care demos.

Biohazard Disposal $2K/yr

[#16] Disposal fees, PPE replacement and biohazard handling recurring costs.

Logistics And Transport $1K/yr

[#12] Shipping & courier baseline costs for inbound coins and packaging/insured shipping.

Facilities Maintenance $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $500K/yr

89.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine purchases, monitoring, medical care, research, and no major exposure events.

routine_purchases scheduled_research_and_maintenance no_public_exposure

🚨 Minor Incident $550K/yr

10.0% probability / year +$50K vs baseline

Localized public exposure or suspicious seller triggers extra cover-up actions and limited legal/medical surge.

small_public_exposure extra_coverup_payments limited legal response

🚨 Major Breach $700K/yr

1.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Widespread appearance/sale of many SCP-7508 instances or a high-profile casualty forcing large-scale buybacks, legal action, and medical surge.

mass_public_appearance large_buyback_required major_media/legal_scrutiny

👥 Personnel 1.02 total

Role	Count	Notes
Procurement / Reconciliation Specialist	1	[#11] 1 FTE responsible for reviewing flagged listings, approving purchases above thresholds, reconciling shipments and bookkeeping ($60,000/yr included in staff_wages).
Researcher (Level-1/2, verification)	0.02	[#4] Weekly verification of coin counts (approx. 37.5 hours/yr at $40/hr -> ~$1,500/yr included in staff_wages).

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes supply explicit line-item estimates for each category and reasonable operational assumptions; cost items and magnitudes are concrete and directly mappable to standard containment/program budgets.

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