SCP-8867 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-8867
Expected annual
$2.1M
One-time setup
$2.1M
Annual recurring
$2.0M
Personnel
7
[#26] First-year one-time setup/reserve costs are estimated at $2,130,000 with recurring annual operations ~ $2,014,800; main cost drivers are staff wages, legal/PR retainers and contingency/reserve funds.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.1M
Legal Liability Reserve $1.0M
[#22] One-time insurance/legal reserve to cover potential defamation/privacy suits or large settlements.
Contingency Fund $300K
[#23] General one-time contingency for escalations, cross-jurisdictional work, or extended investigations.
Equipment $275K
[#1] Development/acquisition of fujo.aic monitoring/flagging system (software/platform build or licensing).
Physical Security Contingency $200K
[#14] One-time reserve for temporary relocation, safehouse setup or initial private-security engagements if online threats become physical.
Forensic Investigation Fee Per Event $125K
[#7] Estimated cost per serious digital-forensics/attribution engagement.
Pentest Program Setup $90K
[#17] One-time comprehensive penetration testing / OPSEC hardening program setup costs.
Stylometry Setup $65K
[#8] One-time tooling and consultant setup for stylometry/language-analysis capability.
Identity Protection Contingency $50K
[#13] One-time relocation / emergency identity-protection reserve for affected employees.
Legal Action Fee Per Event $20K
[#6] Typical one-off cost per subpoena/takedown/legal action (per-action cost estimate).
Archival Ingestion $5K
[#15] Initial immutable ingestion and tamper-evident archival of evidence (posts/screenshots/forensic snapshots).
Facilities $0
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Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.0M/yr
Staff Wages $625K/yr
[#4, #5] Salaries and benefits for 24/7 digital analysts (4 FTEs incl. senior analyst) and on-call incident-response retainer (2–3 senior staff).
Cover Story And Legal $480K/yr
[#6, #9, #11, #19, #20] Legal retainer (~#6), counter-narrative campaigns (#9), reputation/PR retainers (#11), PR/SEO suppression budgets (#19) and creative/content production to support narratives (#20).
Administrative Overhead $336K/yr
[#25] Administrative overhead (HR, procurement, facilities, accounting) estimated at ~20% of recurring program costs.
Research And Monitoring $145K/yr
[#8, #15, #24] Ongoing monitoring, stylometry maintenance, archival storage and small dedicated research project staffing for anomalous behavior analysis.
Enterprise Data Fees $120K/yr
[#3] Platform enterprise API/data access fees (Twitter/X, AO3, historical data tiers).
Fujo Aic Hosting $108K/yr
[#2] Hosting, cloud compute, model retraining and ops for real-time fujo.aic monitoring (recurring cloud/ops costs).
Supplies And Consumables $53K/yr
[#10, #12, #13] Recurring operational costs: covert account ops & minor account infrastructure (~#10), employee counseling/EAP (~#12), recurring identity-monitoring subscriptions (~#13).
Coordination And Travel $50K/yr
[#21] Coordination costs with platforms, law enforcement liaisons and travel/meetings.
Social Media Ops $33K/yr
[#10] Recurring cost for honeypots, shadow accounts and social ops (account creation infrastructure and operator time).
Pentest Refresh $25K/yr
[#17] Annual refresh / training / smaller red-team engagements following initial pentest.
Osint Subscriptions $20K/yr
[#16] Background-research subscriptions and OSINT tools (LexisNexis, people-search, social-graphing services).
Opsec Training $20K/yr
[#18] Annual OPSEC training and enforcement materials for personnel.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.0M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with steady monitoring, no major incident; routine legal/PR and small investigations only.
steady monitoring routine flagged posts no escalations
🚨 Minor Incident $2.2M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Operator posts escalatory content leading to targeted takedowns, small forensic engagement and focused PR campaign.
escalatory public posts targeted doxxing attempt small forensics engagement
🚨 Major Breach Physical Threat $2.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Escalation to credible physical threats or large-scale doxxing requiring relocation, private security and major response.
credible doxxing threats to staff safety emergency relocation
🚨 Prolonged Investigation And Litigation $2.8M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline
Extended attribution efforts and civil litigation (defamation/privacy suits) requiring multiple forensic engagements, legal actions and settlements.
multi-jurisdiction litigation costly attribution efforts multiple subpoenas/actions
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Digital Analyst / Monitoring & Triage 4 24/7 coverage (shifts) including one senior analyst; costed as 4 FTEs in staff_wages [#4].
Incident Response / On-call Staff 3 Senior IR/legal/cyber retainer equivalents (2–3 staff); costed in staff_wages retainer [#5].
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst ranges provided in notes; many items (legal actions, forensic investigations, contingencies) are highly situational and given as order-of-magnitude ranges so uncertainty remains moderate.
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