SCP-8701 — Jackie And Wilson

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SCP-8701 Safe ~ medium confidence

Jackie And Wilson

Expected annual

$5.6M

One-time setup

$4.3M

Annual recurring

$5.3M

Personnel

Initial containment and secure archival/IT setup requires a moderate capital outlay (~$4.16M one-time), while annual operations are dominated by personnel, R&D/monitoring and legal/intelligence/takedown work (~$5.29M/yr). Main drivers: salaries, ongoing R&D and legal/monitoring/incident response budgets.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.3M

Facilities $2.0M

[#1] Dedicated facility lease and renovation (secure dooring, cameras, HVAC isolation, lab fit-out).

Crisis Replacement Reserve $1.0M

[#26] One-time emergency reserve for large-scale dissemination / buyouts (order-of-magnitude reserve fund).

Equipment $610K

[#3, #4, #8, #13, #17] Air-gapped servers and offline media (#3 one-time), redaction/photogrammetry tooling and secure shredders (#4 one-time), vehicle purchases (#8 one-time), generator/UPS hardware (#13 one-time), computational/textual-analysis setup (GPUs/licenses) (#17 one-time).

Archival Vault $300K

[#2] High-security archival vault (fireproof, climate-control, Faraday option, tamper-proof containers and shelving).

Vehicle Purchase $150K

[#8] Purchase of armored/secure vans or field vehicles (separate line from recurring field ops).

Legal Retainer $100K

[#12] Initial retainer for retained counsel and legal/cover arrangements.

Safehouse Setup $100K

[#22] Setup costs for secure residences / safehouse initial fit-out for monitored denizens.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $50K

[#16] Memetic-safety training startup and initial research lab/training materials (startup/recertification materials).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.3M/yr

Staff Wages $2.0M/yr

[#5, #6, #7] Core research team salaries (#5), containment/security personnel (#6), curation/redaction/archivist/translator staff (#7).

Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr

[#9, #10] R&D program to identify catalyst and controlled experiments/fieldwork (#9) plus monitoring/intelligence (web crawlers, publisher/social monitoring) (#10).

Cover Story And Legal $650K/yr

[#12, #21, #23] Ongoing legal/suppression budgets, retained counsel and NDAs (#12), cover infrastructure/fake publishing buys (#21) and PR/misinformation response budget (#23).

Logistics And Transport $250K/yr

[#8] Field operations, vehicle running costs, fuel, per-diem, equipment rental for recoveries (#8 recurring).

Incident Takedown $200K/yr

[#11] Per-incident takedown/legal/forensics and emergency seizure/buyout budget (allocated annually for expected incidents).

Psychological Services $200K/yr

[#15] Counseling, witness protection support, relocation and protective housing allocations.

Insurance Contingency $200K/yr

[#19] Reserve allocation for uninsurable exposures, legal defense and contingency.

Crisis Replenishment $200K/yr

[#26] Annual replenishment allocation to maintain the crisis replacement reserve after use or to top-up readiness.

Translation And Localization $90K/yr

[#18] Outsourced translators and localization budgets for multilingual artifacts.

Safehouse Maintenance $80K/yr

[#22] Ongoing maintenance and support costs for secure residences / monitored denizens.

Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr

[#13] Archive climate-control, HVAC, energy and general facility maintenance; ongoing generator/UPS fuel/maintenance.

Computational Tooling $50K/yr

[#17] Cloud/GPU compute and license fees for textual-analysis and AI tooling.

Personnel Security $50K/yr

[#20] Background checks, vetting, polygraphs and personnel monitoring program costs.

Oversight And Audit $50K/yr

[#24] Third-party auditing, internal oversight boards and periodic external reviews.

Supplies And Consumables $37K/yr

[#4, #25] Consumables for redaction/sanitization (PPE, printing/scanning consumables) (#4) and miscellaneous consumables (paper, gloves, sterilants, forms) (#25).

Secure Disposal $30K/yr

[#14] Certified destruction/incineration contracts, transport and chain-of-custody for hazardous artifacts.

Memetic Training Recurring $25K/yr

[#16] Ongoing cognitive-hazard training, recertification and memetic safety drills.

It Maintenance $15K/yr

[#3] Maintenance and media replacement for air-gapped servers and offline backups.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.3M/yr

60.0% probability / year

Normal year with no major incidents: routine operations, monitoring, scheduled R&D activities and expected takedown activity within budget.

no major breaches routine monitoring activity only

🚨 Minor Incident $5.6M/yr

25.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline

One significant online/physical dissemination event requiring emergency takedown, targeted legal action and extra PR.

single major takedown publisher/legal settlement required

🚨 Major Breach $7.3M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Large-scale dissemination (mass print/digital propagation) requiring crisis fund activation, mass buyouts, relocations and extended legal/PR response.

mass digital propagation widespread physical print runs

🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $6.8M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline

Discovery of catalyst mechanisms or reliable reproduction that requires rapid scaling of R&D, hiring and specialized field expeditions.

experimental identification of catalyst need for expanded fieldwork and containment research

👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Principal Investigator	1	[#5] Senior lead for memetics/linguistic research and program oversight.
Research Scientist / Memetics Researcher	4	[#5] Memetic researchers responsible for experiments, textual analysis and field studies.
Literary / Cultural Analyst	2	[#5] Literary critics and cultural analysts for transformed works assessment.
Lab Manager	1	[#5] Oversees redaction lab, safety protocols and day-to-day lab operations.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	12	[#6] On-site 24/7 guarded security and rapid-response/recovery personnel.
Curation / Redaction Technician / Archivist	3	[#7] Cataloging, redaction, archiving and preservation of physical works.
Translator / Localization Specialist	2	[#7, #18] Outsourced/in-house translators for multilingual artifact handling.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates use midpoints of wide ranges provided in analyst notes. Personnel and legal/monitoring lines are well-specified; R&D, crisis reserve needs and incident frequency remain uncertain, hence medium confidence.

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