EquiTel does one thing: it gets telecommunications companies back into good standing. What happens after that is a separate decision. Our sister company STIRSHAKEN.AI offers STIR SHIELD, a continuous compliance monitoring product — AI-powered, backed by humans — available to providers whose compliance is already in good standing. It is optional, and EquiTel clients are never required to take it.
This is the part providers are often surprised by. STIR SHIELD cannot be applied for while compliance is unresolved — monitoring maintains a position, it does not manufacture one.
Diagnose the exposure, establish the position, remediate what is wrong, and restore the company to good standing. This is the entire scope of an EquiTel engagement.
Filings accurate, records consistent, documentation defensible, open matters resolved. At this point the company is eligible to apply for STIR SHIELD — and equally free not to.
STIR SHIELD, from STIRSHAKEN.AI, watches the obligation set continuously and executes required filings. Entirely your choice, on your own commercial terms with them.
EquiTel does not sell you monitoring.It makes you eligible for it.
Two companies, two disciplines. Being clear about this is more useful than pretending to be one thing.
Diagnose. Decide. Restore standing.
Engaged when something is already wrong. The engagement ends when your position is defensible again.
A STIRSHAKEN.AI product. AI-powered, backed by humans.
Continuous monitoring and filing execution for providers already in good standing. A separate company, a separate commercial relationship, and entirely your choice.
EquiTel restores the position. STIR SHIELD is one way to hold it.
Taking it is optional. Restoring standing first is not.
Providers occasionally ask whether monitoring could simply catch the problems instead. It cannot, and the reason is structural.
Could monitoring have caught this before it became a problem?The EquiTel Response
Only if the obligation set being watched was correct and the underlying records were accurate. Monitoring reports drift from a baseline. If the baseline itself is wrong, monitoring confirms the wrong thing on schedule.
We already have unresolved exposure. Can we start monitoring now?The EquiTel Response
STIR SHIELD requires good standing, so the answer is no until the exposure is resolved. That is not a commercial preference — monitoring an unresolved position produces alerts that require remediation rather than tracking.
If we engage EquiTel, are we committing to STIR SHIELD?The EquiTel Response
No. There is no bundling and no requirement. EquiTel engagements are scoped to recovery and end when your position is restored. Many clients maintain it themselves afterward.
Who files our worksheets and updates our records?The EquiTel Response
EquiTel establishes the position — what should be reported and why. Execution of filings sits with STIRSHAKEN.AI, whether or not you take STIR SHIELD.
No. EquiTel is a recovery and remediation firm. Continuous monitoring is a separate product called STIR SHIELD, offered by our sister company STIRSHAKEN.AI, which is AI-powered and backed by humans.
No. STIR SHIELD requires a provider to be in good standing. A company with unresolved filing exposure, inaccurate records, or an open regulatory matter is not eligible until those are resolved — which is the work EquiTel does.
No. It is entirely optional. EquiTel engagements end when your compliance position is restored. What you do afterward is your decision, and many clients maintain their position internally.
Monitoring maintains a position. It does not create one. Watching an obligation set that is already out of alignment produces alerts about problems that require remediation rather than tracking.
Monitoring is STIR SHIELD, a product of our sister company STIRSHAKEN.AI — AI-powered, backed by humans. EquiTel does the recovery that makes you eligible for it; STIR SHIELD is optional and contracted directly with STIRSHAKEN.AI.
STIRSHAKEN.AI takes providers through STIR/SHAKEN certification end to end — eligibility, SPC token, certificates, and the records that keep them renewing — and executes every regulatory filing.
Get STIR/SHAKEN Certified All Filing ServicesOnce you are in good standing, STIR SHIELD watches the obligation set and files what is required. Optional, and contracted directly with STIRSHAKEN.AI.
Explore STIR SHIELDEquiTel sets the position where judgement is required. STIRSHAKEN.AI certifies, files, and monitors. Engaging either does not commit you to the other.
EquiTel restores your compliance position. Whether you maintain it internally or through STIR SHIELD is a decision you make afterward, with no obligation either way.
