SCP-8095 — SCP-8095 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-8095 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-8095

Expected annual

$3.9M

One-time setup

$2.3M

Annual recurring

$2.8M

Personnel

Initial one-time setup is driven by secure archival, sandboxing, and forensic infrastructure (~$2.29M); annual operations are dominated by staff, ML/detection compute, legal/PR, and retainer costs (~$2.81M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.3M

Initial Research And Lab Setup $800K

[#10, #11] Secure AI sandbox/air-gapped compute cluster and initial ML analysis tooling and setup costs.

Emergency Contingency Reserve $500K

[#20] Reserved capital for expedited subpoenas, emergency travel, large legal bonds, and urgent procurement.

Internal Security Hardening Initial $300K

[#9] Initial audit and hardening of Foundation networks, SIEM/IDS/IPS upgrades, access-control improvements.

Cross Border Seizure $250K

[#16] Budget for a single cross-border server seizure / e‑evidence preservation operation (legal/operational fees).

Forensic Investigation $150K

[#8] One comprehensive digital forensics & attribution deep-dive (metadata, subpoenas, international cooperation).

Covert Osint Operation $125K

[#15] One-off covert human-intel/OSINT operation (PIs, undercover operatives, travel, operational expenses).

Blockchain Forensics $60K

[#17] Initial blockchain/monetization tracing subscription and one-off analyses to locate/freeze funds.

Equipment $50K

[#1] Air-gapped servers, encrypted drives, UPS, shipment cases, initial hardware purchases for archived storage.

Facilities $30K

[#1] Physical safe room / EM-shielded safe construction, minor site work, UPS installation associated with archived storage.

Archival Reconstruction $25K

[#23] Re-creating sanitized internal records/transcriptions/redactions of deleted videos for training and indexing.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.8M/yr

Staff Wages $450K/yr

[#4] Salaries and benefits for digital-threat intelligence / research staff (3–6 FTEs equivalent).

Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr

[#6, #13, #21] Ongoing legal counsel retainer, crisis PR baseline retainer, and cover-story / settlement budgets.

Ml Detection Recurring $300K/yr

[#11] Ongoing GPU time, model retraining, engineering time, and updates for deepfake/model-detection tooling.

Cyber Ops Retainer $275K/yr

[#5] Retainer and operational costs for rapid takedown/incident response engineers, 24/7 on-call cyber ops.

Counter Propaganda Fund $240K/yr

[#13] Baseline budget for paid placements, debunking content, and algorithmic remediation during quieter periods.

Legal Takedown Budget $200K/yr

[#6] In-house + external counsel costs for takedowns, translations, foreign filings, and litigation.

Public Safety Planning $200K/yr

[#26] Planning budget for coordination with emergency responders, mass-amnestic planning, and contingency drills.

Research And Monitoring $120K/yr

[#3] Continuous web & social monitoring services (automated crawlers, platform watch) baseline costs.

Public Records Legal Settlements $100K/yr

[#21] Annual provision for strategic litigation, settlements, NDAs, and influencer retractions.

Licenses And Software $100K/yr

[#25] Annual licenses for forensics suites, SIEM, web-crawlers, ML libraries, and commercial OSINT platforms.

Internal Security Maintenance $100K/yr

[#9] Recurring pen-testing, SIEM maintenance, IDS/IPS subscriptions, and staff training after initial hardening.

Platform Liaison And Account Fees $60K/yr

[#7] Travel, meetings, enterprise support tiers and relationship management with major platforms.

Personnel Security And Vetting $60K/yr

[#24] Enhanced background checks, continuous monitoring, polygraphs, and insider-threat mitigation for staff.

Platform Abuse Prevention Campaigns $60K/yr

[#18] Ongoing paid ads/algorithmic remediation budget during intermittent active mitigation periods.

Takedown Service Subscriptions $50K/yr

[#12] Paid third-party takedown-as-a-service subscriptions and per-takedown fees.

Social Impact Monitoring $50K/yr

[#22] Monitoring misinformation trends, contracting sociologists/epidemiologists for spread modeling.

Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr

[#14, #23] Consumables for field amnestic ops, medical supplies, and ongoing indexing/documentation costs.

Training Exercises $30K/yr

[#19] Tabletop exercises, SOP updates, and training for SOC, legal, and takedown teams.

Logistics And Transport $25K/yr

[#2] Secure transport costs for off-site copies, rotation shipments, and integrity verification logistics.

Amnestic Operations Fund $25K/yr

[#14] Budget reserve for occasional targeted amnestic/field ops (per-operation costs vary widely).

Facilities Maintenance $12K/yr

[#1] Maintenance of safe room / physical archival storage and UPS maintenance.

Storage And Backup Maintenance $12K/yr

[#2] Periodic replacement of drives, rotation of off-site backups, storage facility fees, integrity checks.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.8M/yr

55.0% probability / year

Normal year with no major incidents; only planned recurring operations and maintenance.

no major reuploads routine monitoring and takedowns scheduled training and maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $3.0M/yr

35.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Localized re-emergence or mirror wave requiring extra takedowns, overtime, and intensified PR campaigns.

mass mirror uploads coordinated reposts across platforms short-lived viral resurgence

🚨 Major Breach $3.6M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline

Cross-border hosting discovered or legal escalation requiring server seizure, substantial foreign litigation, and intensified operations.

foreign-hosted servers identified complex international legal actions sustained coordinated reuploads

🚨 Catastrophic Public Exposure $52.8M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Large-scale public exposure or political escalation causing mass panic, major litigation, and emergency public-safety operations.

viral public disclosure of Foundation data governmental involvement / mass misinformation mandated large-scale amnestic or emergency response

👥 Personnel 6 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist	2	ML/model detection and forensic analysis staff; part of staff_wages [#4, #11].
Engineer / Maintenance	1	Infrastructure and sandbox/compute maintenance; part of staff_wages and internal security maintenance [#10, #9].
Security Officer / MTF Agent	1	Physical custody and secure transport of archival media and field ops support; included in staff_wages [#1, #2].
Administrative Staff	1	Coordination, scheduling, and liaison work with legal/platform teams; included in staff_wages [#7, #6].
Research Technician	1	Indexing, transcription, and archival reconstruction work; included in staff_wages [#23].

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on provided ranges and operational judgement; many costs (cross-border seizure, litigation, mass amnestics) are highly variable so totals have moderate uncertainty.

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