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SCP-878 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-878
Expected annual
$18.9M
One-time setup
$29.5M
Annual recurring
$18.4M
Personnel
84
Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $29.5M driven by facility retrofits, contingency reserves, monitoring/equipment buildouts, and strategic acquisitions. Recurring annual costs are approximately $18.4M driven by strike teams, monitoring operations (automated + human), legal/PR/cover expenditures, international operations, and platform cooperation.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $29.5M
Contingency Reserve $15.0M
[#19] One-time allocation to a legal/liability reserve for catastrophic exposures or buyouts.
Equipment $5.2M
[#1, #3, #5, #14, #15] One-time development/training of automated monitoring ML, strike-team vehicles/equipment, cyber-tooling, physical capture kits, and secure server/hardware setup.
Facilities $5.0M
[#8] Retrofit of secure medical/quarantine containment wing and associated structural work.
Strategic Acquisitions $2.5M
[#25] One-time strategic purchases of small distributors/studios to control content pipelines.
Archival Large Buyout $1.0M
[#9] One-time major archival buyouts/substitutions for high-value titles (reserved budget for large individual buys).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $700K
[#7] Lab fit-out for forensic/metallurgy/neuro/psych analysis and specialized instruments.
Training Curriculum $112K
[#22] One-time development of training curriculum and simulation materials.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $18.4M/yr
Staff Wages $6.1M/yr
[#2, #3, #4, #8] Media-analysis staff (12 FTE), strike-team personnel (36 operatives), covert embedded payroll, and staffing for quarantine/clinical/security.
Cover Story And Legal $2.1M/yr
[#6, #17, #18] Baseline legal/PR budgets, family support/relocation payments, and misinformation/manufactured news campaigns.
International Operations $1.8M/yr
[#11] Liaison officers, local contractors, payments to foreign regulators/stations, and related international operational costs.
Automated Monitoring Ops $1.2M/yr
[#1] Recurring cloud compute, third-party ACR licensing, and ongoing model retraining/ops for continuous media scanning.
Lobbying $1.1M/yr
[#20] Recurring lobbying and legislative-influence efforts to ease takedown authority and platform cooperation.
Logistics And Transport $1.1M/yr
[#12, #13] Monitoring live theatre travel/presence and baseline travel/logistics for rapid deployments.
Cyber Takedown Ops $1.0M/yr
[#5] Recurring engineering contractors, covert access costs, emergency takedown fees, and platform cooperation payouts.
Archival Acquisition And Destruction Budget $1.0M/yr
[#9] Annual budget reserve for purchasing/replacing/destroying masters and other archival suppression actions.
Platform Retainer $650K/yr
[#10] Retainers and cooperation payments to major streaming/platform partners for priority takedown channels.
Research And Monitoring $600K/yr
[#7] Recurring research staffing, consumables, per-specimen testing and forensic analysis costs.
Contingency Replenishment $500K/yr
[#19] Annual replenishment target for the contingency/liability reserve after incident spend.
Facilities Maintenance $350K/yr
[#15, #23] Recurring hosting/maintenance for secure servers/storage and utilities/office/site maintenance.
Strategic Partnerships Retainer $300K/yr
[#25] Recurring retainer/partnership payments to production houses or distributors.
Casting Database Monitoring $200K/yr
[#21] Subscriptions and investigator costs for monitoring casting databases, SAG/unions, and production schedules.
Supplies And Consumables $175K/yr
[#14, #16] Maintenance/replacement of capture/containment equipment and personnel mental-health care / debriefing consumables.
Training And Exercises $175K/yr
[#22] Recurring drills, tabletop exercises, and training productions for strike teams and legal/PR staff.
Specialist Consulting $88K/yr
[#24] Recurring specialist fees (archaeologists, prop experts) for provenance, appraisal, and forgery/substitution advice.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $18.4M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring and occasional small incidents handled within budget.
routine_monitoring minor_media_hits no_high_profile_exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $18.7M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
One or two medium-profile media incidents requiring expedited takedowns, travel, small settlements and extra archival buys.
expedited_removal_payouts short_notice_travel moderate_studio_settlement
🚨 Major Incident $26.4M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$8.0M vs baseline
High-profile exposure (major studio feature or festival leak) requiring large settlements, major legal/PR operations, and contingency drawdown.
major_studio_feature_exposure festival_leak large_lawsuits_or_buyouts
👥 Personnel 84 total
Role Count Notes
Operational Watcher / Media Analyst 12 [#2] 12 FTEs covering 24/7 review and triage.
Strike Team Operative 36 [#3] Six regional teams of six operatives each.
Covert Operative / Embedded Agent 24 [#4] Dozens of embedded covers rotating on productions.
Psychiatric Clinician 6 [#8] Clinical staff for containment ward and SCP-878-3 care.
Quarantine Security / Custodial 6 [#8] Security and custodial support for psychiatric containment wing.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing a reasoned estimate, but many line items have wide ranges (especially contingency, international ops, and archival buyouts) and incident-driven spikes are highly variable, so uncertainty remains.
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