# BRD-082 — RCS brand assets are not available on the sole-proprietor tier

> Logo and banner assets for RCS cannot be uploaded to a sole-proprietor brand.

- **Rule ID:** BRD-082
- **Layer:** Brand (`BRAND`)
- **Checks:** `brand.assets`
- **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
- **Applies:** Applies when the brand is a sole proprietor.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-082/

## Why this rule exists

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.

## How to fix it

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 of a compliant value

```text
brand assets: none on the sole-proprietor tier — SMS and MMS only
```

## Provider rejection codes

| Provider | Code | Resubmission allowed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TCR | `592` | yes |