{
  "id": "XBC-004",
  "slug": "xbc-004",
  "title": "Emergency and public-safety use cases exclude sole proprietors",
  "statement": "Public-safety and emergency use cases are not available to a SOLE_PROPRIETOR brand.",
  "rationale": "Emergency messaging bypasses filtering that protects consumers from everything else, so it is restricted to registered entities that can be held accountable for misuse. An individual with no EIN cannot be vetted to that standard.",
  "layer": "CROSS",
  "layerSlug": "cross",
  "object": "brand.entity_type + campaign.usecase",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR"
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "entityTypes": [
      "SOLE_PROPRIETOR"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when the brand is a sole proprietor.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Register the organisation as a standard entity with its EIN. If the messaging is genuinely operational rather than emergency, choose CUSTOMER_CARE or ACCOUNT_NOTIFICATION instead.",
  "example": "Entity type: PRIVATE_PROFIT or GOVERNMENT · Use case: EMERGENCY",
  "catalogIds": [
    "BRD-159"
  ],
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/cross/xbc-004/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/cross/xbc-004.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}