SCP-8268 — SCP-8268 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-8268 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-8268

Expected annual

$21.9M

One-time setup

$45.3M

Annual recurring

$21.2M

Personnel

Initial setup is capital-intensive (approximately $44.8M) driven primarily by SRA procurement/installation, secure facility construction, and HA systems; recurring annual operations are roughly $21.2M/yr driven by personnel, per-case intervention/subsidies, and job-placement payrolls.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $45.3M

Equipment $21.1M

[#3, #5, #9, #19] SRA acquisition/replication and installation hardware, high-availability servers/storage/networking, rapid-response vehicles/portable equipment, secure comms/forgery infrastructure hardware.

Facilities $16.9M

[#4, #6, #9, #23, #3] Secure facility construction/fit-out, geographically separated backup site buildout, safehouse setup and physical security/SRA vault integration.

Reserve Fund Seed $2.0M

[#22] Seed emergency/escrow reserve fund for escalations and major contingencies.

Decommissioning Reserve $2.0M

[#25] Reserved funds for program decommissioning and safe disposal of SRA/sensitive equipment.

Ai Development $1.5M

[#2] One-time AI design, model training, testing, and documentation (initial development).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K

[#16] Seed funding and laboratory instrumentation for ongoing SCP-8268 research program.

Data Access Setup $500K

[#1] Legal/setup costs, contracting, NDAs, and initial audits required to secure USPS COA data feed access.

Job Program Setup $250K

[#11] One-time setup costs for job-placement program, shell companies, payroll infrastructure and initial admin.

Monitoring Db Build $200K

[#12] One-time build of crawling/indexing infrastructure and public-works corpora ingestion.

Case Management Training $150K

[#8] One-time training for case-management staff and field agents.

Antimemetic Training Development $125K

[#18] One-time curriculum and exercise development for antimemetic training and doctrine.

Example Budget Scenario $0

[#28] Reference/example budget scenario (not added as an extra cost here).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $21.2M/yr

Job Program Payroll $4.0M/yr

[#11] Payroll/subsidies for Foundation-run job-placement program, residencies, and partnership placements.

Staff Wages $3.2M/yr

[#7, #8] Salaries and benefits for core AI engineers, data scientists, sysadmins (~AI team) and case-management staff/field agents.

Per Case Intervention Budget $3.0M/yr

[#10] Per-case relocation assistance, stipends, temporary employment for ~200 interventions/yr (mid-range).

Record Amendment $1.7M/yr

[#14] Per-case record edits, digital erasure, coordination with publishers/platforms (~200 cases/yr mid-range).

Research And Monitoring $1.5M/yr

[#12, #16] Ongoing monitoring (crawling/indexing) and formal research program (anthropology, antimemetics, epidemiology) recurring budgets.

Facilities Maintenance $800K/yr

[#4, #23] Facility operations, classified accreditation overhead, utilities and physical-site security maintenance.

Activated Cases Costs $800K/yr

[#17] Costs from activated/erased cases: payouts, settlements, family handling (assumes ~10 activations/yr mid-range).

Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr

[#13] Legal/PR retainers, ongoing legal support, and messaging to prevent leaks.

Data Access $600K/yr

[#1] Ongoing USPS COA access fees, insider payments/compliance monitoring, licensing and data-use audits.

Mental Health Services $600K/yr

[#15] Counseling, therapy, vocational training for subjects (~200 cases/yr mid-range).

Public Facing Grants $550K/yr

[#27] Grants/residencies/fellowships to incentivize subjects to remain outside hometowns (scale-dependent).

Contingency Replenishment $500K/yr

[#22] Annual replenishment/maintainance of contingency/escrow funds for escalations or legal judgments.

Backup Power And Guards Recurring $500K/yr

[#23] Guard contracts, extra generators maintenance and seasonal surge security costs.

Antimemetic Training Recurring $325K/yr

[#18] Recurring antimemetic training, simulations, and continuity drills for relevant staff.

Audit And Internal Security $325K/yr

[#21] Regular audits, background reinvestigations, polygraphs, and insider-threat countermeasures.

Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr

[#24] Per-diems, flights, rental cars, surveillance replacement, office supplies, and miscellaneous operational expenses.

Ai Maintenance $300K/yr

[#2] Model updates, retraining, software patches, and ongoing AI system maintenance.

Backup Sites Maintenance $300K/yr

[#6] Readiness, redundancy upkeep, and maintenance for geographically separated failover sites and backup SRA readiness.

Logistics And Transport $250K/yr

[#9] Operational travel, vehicle fuel/maintenance, and transport costs for rapid-response teams.

Servers Licensing $250K/yr

[#5] Cloud/colocation, licenses, backups, and HA/disaster recovery costs.

Identity Management Recurring $250K/yr

[#19] Running/rotating covert identities, forgery infrastructure upkeep, and shell-entity maintenance.

Safehouse Recurring $200K/yr

[#9] Recurring safehouse operating costs across the short-term placement network.

Energy And Utilities $175K/yr

[#20] UPS, generators fuel contracts, elevated cooling and continuous power for SRA and data-center loads.

Sra Maintenance $150K/yr

[#3] Maintenance, shielding checks, patrol/support for SRA and integration hardware.

Demographic Monitoring $50K/yr

[#26] Small-town demographic and GIS dataset maintenance to identify towns below 25,000 population and reduce false positives.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $21.2M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with monitoring and standard interventions; no major breaches or large-scale exposures.

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🚨 Minor Incident $22.7M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline

Localized containment/cover incident requiring elevated legal response, additional interventions, and short-term backup activation.

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🚨 Major Breach $46.2M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Major compromise of primary facility or SRA damage requiring SRA replacement/replication, full failover, large legal settlements and program-scale response.

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👥 Personnel 23 total

Role	Count	Notes
AI Lead / Principal Investigator	1	[#2, #7] Senior lead responsible for AI monitoring and model oversight (included in staff_wages).
AI Engineer / Data Scientist	4	[#2, #7] Engineers and data scientists who develop and maintain detection models (included in staff_wages).
Sysadmin / DevOps	1	[#5, #7] Infrastructure administration for servers, backups, and HA systems (included in staff_wages).
Case-Management Officer / Field Agent	15	[#8] Investigative and intervention operatives who handle flagged cases and perform relocations (included in staff_wages).
Administrative Staff	2	[#11, #13] Program administration, HR, and legal/PR liaisons (included in staff_wages).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates use mid-range values from analyst notes but SRA procurement, legal access to USPS data, and required scale of backups have high uncertainty; recurring intervention volume is assumed at ~200/yr which strongly affects totals.

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