{
  "id": "BRD-203",
  "slug": "brd-203",
  "title": "The starter brand class is deprecated",
  "statement": "A deprecated starter-class brand must not be created or updated.",
  "rationale": "The class is disabled rather than discouraged, so both creation and update are refused — which means an existing starter brand cannot be corrected in place either, and the only route forward is migration to a standard class. Integrations built against the older documentation still send it, and the failure names the class rather than explaining that it is gone.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "the brand class",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "Twilio"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "Twilio",
      "code": "21726",
      "remediable": false
    }
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Register as a standard or low-volume standard brand instead. Where a starter brand already exists, migrate it rather than trying to update it — updates to the class are refused along with creations. Done when the brand class is one that is still supported.",
  "example": "brand_class: LOW_VOLUME_STANDARD — the supported low-cost route, in place of the deprecated STARTER class",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-203/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-203.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}