{
  "id": "BRD-212",
  "slug": "brd-212",
  "title": "Vetting is not a remedy for a rejection",
  "statement": "External vetting exists to raise throughput, not to reverse a rejection, and it is not guaranteed to raise anything.",
  "rationale": "The instinct after a refusal is to buy the most expensive verification available, and it is precisely the wrong move: the vet examines the same data that was just refused, so it returns the same answer and charges for it. What fixes a rejection is correcting the brand data or filing an appeal — and a vet ordered on uncorrected data is money spent to confirm the problem.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "the reason a vet is being ordered",
  "severity": "MEDIUM",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "Bandwidth",
    "AWS"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Correct the brand data the rejection pointed at, or file an identity appeal with documentation. Order the vet afterwards, and only if the throughput you need is above what a verified brand gets by default. Done when the identity status is resolved before any vet is bought.",
  "example": "Fix the legal name to match the CP-575, then re-verify — rather than ordering a standard vet against the same unchanged name",
  "notes": "Absorbs OPS-305, which states the same two facts: vetting is not a rejection remedy, and a top standard score already buys the best available terms.",
  "catalogIds": [
    "OPS-305"
  ],
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-212/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-212.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}