Only three registration shapes may skip the automatic vet
The requirementstatement
The skip-automatic-vetting flag may be set only for Low-Volume Standard registrations, 527 political organisations, and Campaign-Verify-registered brands.
- Severityseverity
- HighHIGHRejected by at least one carrier or provider, and a common cause of failure at the rest.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- brand.skip_automatic_sec_vet
- 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
- Twilio
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies to every 10DLC registration.
Why this rule existsrationale
The flag suppresses the secondary vet that would otherwise run, and it exists for the three cases where that vet is either unavailable or already discharged by another artefact. Setting it anywhere else does not save a fee — it produces a brand that skipped its verification and lands at the lowest throughput with no finding to explain why.
How to fix itremediation
Leave the flag unset unless the brand is Low-Volume Standard, a 527 organisation, or registered through Campaign Verify. If it was set to avoid a fee, clear it and accept the automatic vet — the throughput it buys is worth more than the fee it costs.
A compliant exampleexample
skip_automatic_sec_vet: false — unless brand_class is LOW_VOLUME_STANDARD, 527 or CAMPAIGN_VERIFY
Rules you will hit next
Other brand rules at the same severity. A registration is judged as a whole, not rule by rule.
BRD-006Submit every name line above the address on a multi-line IRS recordHighHIGHBRD-007TCR takes only the first line of the IRS-registered nameHighHIGHBRD-010Take the legal name from the CP-575 or 147C, never a W-2 or W-9HighHIGHBRD-014An acquired business registers the details it filed taxes underHighHIGHBRD-027EIN must be old enough to have propagated to IRS recordsHighHIGHBRD-034Validate a non-US identifier against its home register before submittingHighHIGH
BRD-232 is one of 196 brand rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.