SCP-7806 — SCP-7806 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-7806 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-7806

Expected annual

$513K

One-time setup

$323K

Annual recurring

$496K

Personnel

One-time setup and forensic containment work is moderate (~$323k) driven by legal/seed funds, secure storage retrofit, and specialised forensic/autoloader prototyping; annual recurring costs are higher (~$496.5k/yr) dominated by staff wages (security + research), legal/PR contingencies, monitoring, and implicit opportunity costs.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $323K

Containment Seed Fund $100K

[#20] One-time contingency / emergency response seed fund to support immediate takedowns, rapid recall and initial breach response.

Investigative Ops One Time $50K

[#19] Seed funding for origin/production investigation (undercover ops, subpoenas, targeted forensic accounting).

Legal Retainer One Time $40K

[#12] Legal retainer for rapid-response counsel addressing privacy/celebrity issues and takedown actions.

Facilities $25K

[#1] Site vault allocation / minor retrofit, climate/fire suppression and access-control upgrade (incremental retrofit estimate).

Mechanical Autoloader Design $25K

[#17] Design/prototyping of a safe mechanical disc autoloader to avoid automation of unsafe playback actions.

Forensic Analysis One Time $20K

[#9] Optical-media and burner-phone forensic imaging, bitstream analysis and potential outsourcing to specialist labs.

Equipment $18K

[#6] Dedicated air-gapped Blu‑Ray playback and capture rig plus analysis workstation (industrial playback + capture hardware, workstations).

Telecom Legal Coordination One Time $15K

[#8] One-time negotiation/carve-out and coordination with carriers / legal for blocking or sinking displayed 1-800 number.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $12K

[#6] Controlled viewing room buildout (locked workstation, physical isolation, secure AV capture installation).

Faraday Retfit $12K

[#7] Small Faraday enclosure / EM shielding retrofit for viewing room to block phone signals and outbound telecom.

Data Storage One Time $6K

[#11] Initial secure air-gapped WORM/offline storage capacity (1–10 TB) for captured video and evidence imaging.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $496K/yr

Staff Wages $207K/yr

[#3, #4] Security staffing (2 guards with fringe) and allocated research staff time (senior + junior partial FTEs) — fully-burdened annual wages.

Opportunity Costs $60K/yr

[#22] Implicit cost representing diverted researcher FTE time (estimated .5 FTE implicit cost allocated to other projects).

Cover Story And Legal $50K/yr

[#13] Ongoing cover-up/PR operations, takedowns and platform coordination; DMCA/notice operations budget.

Legal Contingency Fund $50K/yr

[#12] Annual allocation toward potential settlements, rapid-response litigation funding and high-profile privacy claims (ongoing reserve).

Memetic Psych Program $35K/yr

[#5] Screening, mandatory debriefs, counseling, periodic psych evals and monitoring for personnel exposed to compulsion/obsessive behaviour.

Research And Monitoring $20K/yr

[#4, #6, #11] Ongoing experimental costs, AV analysis, per-viewing processing and other research consumables not covered by wages/equipment.

Investigation Ops Per Year $20K/yr

[#19] Ongoing investigative work, follow-ups, subpoenas or international inquiries if active tracking of origin continues.

Monitoring And Intrusion Detection $10K/yr

[#16] Web crawlers, social monitoring subscriptions and analyst time to detect public dissemination or sales.

Administrative Overhead $10K/yr

[#14] Ethics Committee oversight time, documentation and administrative costs for access denials and reporting.

Medical Occupational Health $10K/yr

[#15] Post-exposure medical exams, occupational health visits and related screening for staff after long-view sessions.

Emergency Exercises $8K/yr

[#20] Annual tabletop/exercise costs to rehearse breach/recall scenarios (~1–2 exercises/yr).

Logistics And Transport $5K/yr

[#2] Secure transport, armored courier and chain-of-custody moves between labs/sites (estimated ~$5k/yr).

Facilities Maintenance $3K/yr

[#1, #7] Ongoing climate control, vault maintenance and Faraday/EM shielding upkeep for storage/viewing room.

Telecom Sink Line $3K/yr

[#8] Maintaining a monitored sink line / number-blocking coordination with carriers on an ongoing basis.

Archival Maintenance $2K/yr

[#10] Periodic media integrity checks and amortized hardware refresh for obsolete optical playback (~5–10 yr refresh amortized).

Data Storage Maintenance $2K/yr

[#11] Maintenance, integrity checks and small additions to secure offline backups and WORM storage.

Supplies And Consumables $1K/yr

[#21] Gloves, evidence bags, cleaning kits, archive boxes and routine consumables for media handling.

Additional Copies Storage $1K/yr

[#18] Marginal storage and auditing per extra copy if multiple duplicates are retained (~$500–$2k/yr).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $496K/yr

94.0% probability / year

Normal year with no major incidents; regular containment, monitoring, research and scheduled maintenance.

routine_research_and_maintenance no_public_leak no_legal_actions

🚨 Minor Incident $572K/yr

5.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline

Small unauthorized disclosure or limited leak requiring increased takedowns, overtime, targeted legal action and extra monitoring.

small_online_upload limited_media_mention targeted_DMCA_and_overtime

🚨 Major Breach $1.7M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline

Widespread public release or discovery by subject leading to litigation, large settlements, major PR campaign and emergency containment operations.

widespread_public_leak celebrity_litigation governmental_attention

👥 Personnel 4 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	2	2 full-time guards assigned to restricted viewing/storage and escort duties; wages included in staff_wages [#3].
Research Scientist (Senior)	1	1 senior researcher assigned to SCP-7806 research (may be partial FTE depending on workload); covered in staff_wages [#4].
Research Scientist (Junior)	1	1 junior researcher (partial FTE allocation for experiments/viewings); staffing cost aggregated into staff_wages [#4].

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates draw from explicit analyst ranges for each line item but several high-uncertainty items (legal settlements, investigative scope, autoloader development) create moderate confidence. Many costs are discretionary (reserve size, active investigation) and scenario probabilities are subjective.

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