# BRD-008 — Legal name must not carry an appended personal name or role

> The legal name field must contain only the entity name — not a contact person or role suffix appended to it.

- **Rule ID:** BRD-008
- **Layer:** Brand (`BRAND`)
- **Checks:** `brand.company_name`
- **Severity:** BLOCKING — Breaking this rule gets the submission rejected outright.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** Deterministic (settled in code from the submitted values)
- **Fix type:** Fix the field — a better value in the form clears it
- **Required by:** TCR, Twilio
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-008/

## Why this rule exists

Registration forms elsewhere often combine entity and contact, so people paste strings like "ACME LLC Theresa Lopez - MBR" into the legal name. That never matches the IRS record, and because the entity name is present inside the string it looks correct at a glance.

## How to fix it

Remove everything after the entity suffix. The contact person belongs in the brand contact fields, not in the legal name.

## Example of a compliant value

```text
Legal name: "Acme Coffee Co, LLC" — not "Acme Coffee Co, LLC Jane Doe - MBR"
```