{
  "id": "BRD-081",
  "slug": "brd-081",
  "title": "A sole-proprietor brand cannot buy its way to more throughput",
  "statement": "External vetting, and the throughput increases vetting buys, are not available on a sole-proprietor brand.",
  "rationale": "Vetting works by confirming a business against commercial records, and this tier exists precisely for people who are not in those records — so the vet has nothing to verify and the order is refused rather than failed. It matters because the obvious response to a low throughput cap is to buy a vet, and here that spends a non-refundable fee on an operation that was never possible.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "external vet order",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR",
    "Twilio",
    "Vonage"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "Twilio",
      "code": "30715",
      "remediable": true
    },
    {
      "provider": "TCR",
      "code": "525",
      "remediable": true
    }
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "entityTypes": [
      "SOLE_PROPRIETOR"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when the brand is a sole proprietor.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Do not order a vet on this brand. If the throughput cap is the problem, the route up is an EIN and a standard brand, which can then be vetted — the tier change is the increase, and the vet only helps once you are on the other tier.",
  "example": "vetting: none on a sole-proprietor brand — the throughput increase comes from moving to a standard brand instead",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-081/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-081.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}