An enhanced vet buys nothing on top of a top standard score
The requirementstatement
An enhanced vet must not be ordered where the standard vet has already returned a score at the top band.
- Severityseverity
- MediumMEDIUMUsually survives review, but lowers your trust score or invites a manual look you would rather avoid.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- brand.vetting_score + vet class
- Where it liveslayer
- BrandBRAND
- How Ekas settles itdetectability
- DeterministicDETERMINISTIC
- Settled in code from the values you submitted. No model involved, no judgement call, same answer every time.
- What the fix involvesfailureClass
- Fix the fieldRETRY_FIELD
- A better value in the form fixes it. Ekas can rewrite it and re-check.
- Who requires itauthorities
- TCR
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies to every 10DLC registration.
Why this rule existsrationale
Throughput terms are set by score bands, and the top band is the top band — a higher-grade vet against a score already at 75 or above produces the same carrier terms for a second fee. It is bought in good faith by teams who read "enhanced" as "better" rather than as "a different examination of the same company".
How to fix itremediation
Keep the standard vet. If throughput is still short of what the programme needs, the constraint is the carrier tier rather than the vet class, and the route up is campaign-level rather than another purchase. Done when no second vet is ordered against a score of 75 or more.
A compliant exampleexample
vetting: STANDARD, score 82 — and no enhanced vet ordered on top of it
Rules you will hit next
Other brand rules at the same severity. A registration is judged as a whole, not rule by rule.
BRD-037Low-Volume Standard is not available to a non-US brand that needs vettingMediumMEDIUMBRD-051Russell 3000 membership sets the starting carrier classMediumMEDIUMBRD-059A unified fundraising short code needs five years of operating historyMediumMEDIUMBRD-090A sole-proprietor brand cannot move between providersMediumMEDIUMBRD-106The business phone should be findable in a web searchMediumMEDIUMBRD-126The brand website is the root domain, not a page inside itMediumMEDIUM
BRD-214 is one of 196 brand rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.