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SCP-7968 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-7968
Expected annual
$526K
One-time setup
$368K
Annual recurring
$512K
Personnel
6
Upfront implementation and tooling are modest (software development, integration, archival hardware) while annual costs are driven primarily by personnel (development/ops/research) and legal/incident-response. Estimated upfront one-time spend is about $368k and baseline annual operations cost is about $512.5k, largely personnel-driven.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $368K
Misc Reserve $125K
[#22] Miscellaneous & low-probability high-impact reserve for unanticipated escalations (e.g., widespread archive corruption).
Crawler Development $90K
[#1] Development of tailored database crawler/monitor including design, coding, QA and basic analyst UI (2–3 devs for 1–2 months + QA).
Contingency Amnestic $62K
[#17] One-time contingency reserve for amnestic/psychological intervention or unexpected personnel effects.
Equipment $56K
[#4, #18, #20] Includes cryptographic integrity hardware & initial archival write (#4 ~ $16,500), initial small-scale physical-testing equipment/cameras/sensors for a campaign (#18 ~ $25,000), and an initial server/storage hardware purchase to seed archival/indexing infrastructure (#20 ~ $14,000).
Db Integration $28K
[#2] Integration and safe deployment work (DBA/devops/change management) to hook the crawler into production systems.
Training Creation $7K
[#12] One-time creation cost for awareness/training module and SOP materials.
Facilities $0
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Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $512K/yr
Staff Wages $392K/yr
[#6, #7, #8, #10, #12, #21] Aggregated personnel costs (ongoing software maintenance/developer FTEs, server administration, incident review/curation labor, research team salaries for ongoing study, staff-time portion of training delivery, and program manager/admin overhead). Individual line-item wage estimates from notes have been consolidated here.
Cover Story And Legal $28K/yr
[#14] Legal/cover-up/external takedown liaison and takedown costs.
Third Party Audits $16K/yr
[#15] Annual third-party security audits and pen-tests of crawler and integration points.
Nlp Licensing $16K/yr
[#16] Licensing/subscriptions and cloud ML compute for NLP/pattern-detection models.
Hosting Compute $15K/yr
[#3] Hosting, compute, storage and networking for crawler, indices, and secure segmentation.
Logistics And Transport $12K/yr
[#11] Annual periodic physical audit travel/lodging/sampling costs for Site-43 verification.
Tabletop Exercises $8K/yr
[#13] Annual tabletop exercises, incident-response drills, and SOP documentation refinement.
Data Integrity Remediation $8K/yr
[#19] Restore/repair of altered documents from backups, re-verification of indices and internal links.
Offsite Backup $6K/yr
[#5] Offsite/air-gapped cold storage retention (tape/cloud-glacier equivalents) for periodic snapshots.
Forensic Logging $5K/yr
[#9] Enhanced logging infrastructure (write-once logs, hash chains) and long-term evidence storage costs.
Hardware Refresh Amortization $4K/yr
[#20] Capital replacement amortization for servers/storage/archival hardware (annualized portion of 3–5 year lifecycle).
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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Research And Monitoring $0/yr
[#10] Research effort funding (salaries/compute/travel) is included in staff_wages for annual baseline; non-wage research costs assumed minimal beyond personnel in baseline.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $512K/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal year with regular monitoring, remediation, and modest research effort; no major incidents or large-scale data corruption.
regular_monitoring minor_flagged_incidents no_widespread_leak
🚨 Minor Incident $562K/yr
8.0% probability / year +$50K vs baseline
Localized incident requiring elevated remediation, additional takedowns, and some legal/forensic overtime.
localized_document_corruption external_copy_found
🚨 Major Breach $1.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Widespread database corruption or external mass leak requiring emergency restores, large-scale takedowns, possible amnestic deployments, and major legal work.
widespread_db_corruption mass_external_leak
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
Software Engineer / Developer 1 [#1, #6] Responsible for crawler development, signature tuning, and ongoing maintenance (aggregated into staff_wages).
Engineer / System Administrator 1 [#2, #7] DB integration, sandboxing, and server administration (part-time role aggregated into staff_wages).
Research Scientist 2 [#10] PI + 1 analyst for investigative research into source/mechanism (salaries aggregated into staff_wages).
Content Curator / Archivist 1 [#8, #19] Manual review of flagged documents, remediation, and integrity restores (aggregated into staff_wages).
Site/Program Manager / Administrative Staff 1 [#21, #12] Program management, reporting, coordination and oversight; also manages training program delivery (aggregated into staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide reasonable line-item ranges and a clear containment approach (database tooling + personnel), so cost categories are well-identified; uncertainty remains in incident frequency/severity and how much research/amnestic intervention may be required, so confidence is medium.
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