{
  "id": "BRD-082",
  "slug": "brd-082",
  "title": "RCS brand assets are not available on the sole-proprietor tier",
  "statement": "Logo and banner assets for RCS cannot be uploaded to a sole-proprietor brand.",
  "rationale": "RCS shows a verified sender card with the brand's own artwork, and that card is a trust signal underwritten by the verification behind it — which on this tier is a text message to a phone. The upload is refused rather than queued, so a business that built its RCS artwork first discovers the channel is closed to it after the design work is done.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "brand.assets",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "TCR",
      "code": "592",
      "remediable": true
    }
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "entityTypes": [
      "SOLE_PROPRIETOR"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when the brand is a sole proprietor.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Remove the asset upload from this registration. If RCS is the goal, obtain an EIN and register a standard brand — RCS asset upload and the verified sender card both hang off the standard verification path.",
  "example": "brand assets: none on the sole-proprietor tier — SMS and MMS only",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-082/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-082.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}