diff --git a/chronosphere/resource_bucket.go b/chronosphere/resource_bucket.go
index 95d1333..ae08a04 100644
--- a/chronosphere/resource_bucket.go
+++ b/chronosphere/resource_bucket.go
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ func reconcileNotificationPolicy(
 	}
 	if independent {
 		// Can only inline policies that are not independent
-		return diag.Errorf("cannot use notification_policy_data of owned policy, use a notification policy without team_id")
+		return diag.Errorf("cannot use notification_policy_data of named policy, use a notification policy without name")
 	}
 
 	// If policy wasn't set before and still isn't, no-op
@@ -405,8 +405,8 @@ func policyModelFromBucket(d *schema.ResourceData) (policy *configmodels.Configv
 }
 
 // When deleting policies, only bucket-owned policies are deleted, deletes of
-// other owned policies are ignored to support migrating from an inline policy
-// to an independent team-owned policy.
+// other policies are ignored to support migrating from an inline policy
+// to an independent policy.
 func policyNotBucketOwned(err error) bool {
 	err = clienterror.Wrap(err)
 
diff --git a/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy.go b/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy.go
index 3d595ef..676d5c0 100644
--- a/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy.go
+++ b/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy.go
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ func isNotificationPolicyIndependentForCustomizeDiff(
 		return false
 	}
 
-	return !isRawAttributeNull(diff, "team_id")
+	return !isRawAttributeNull(diff, "name")
 }
 
 func expandMatcherSchema(m intschema.Matcher) *configmodels.Configv1LabelMatcher {
diff --git a/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy_independent.go b/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy_independent.go
index a8db295..fa47feb 100644
--- a/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy_independent.go
+++ b/chronosphere/resource_notification_policy_independent.go
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ func (independentNotificationPolicyConverter) fromModel(
 	// Note: BucketSlug being set should cause a change to be detected by TF.
 	// Since a policy is either bucket-owned or team-owned, a bucket owned policy
 	// will have no team, so the team will mismatch.
+	// TODO(brian.barnes): Now that policies can be unowned, it is no longer true
+	// that setting a bucket slug outside of terraform will lead to a mismatch, since
+	// team_id is not guaranteed to be set if a policy is not bucket-owned.
 	return &intschema.NotificationPolicy{
 		Name:                   m.Name,
 		Slug:                   m.Slug,
diff --git a/chronosphere/tfschema/monitor.go b/chronosphere/tfschema/monitor.go
index 0de6dcd..30e37fa 100644
--- a/chronosphere/tfschema/monitor.go
+++ b/chronosphere/tfschema/monitor.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ var Monitor = map[string]*schema.Schema{
 		Optional: true,
 		ValidateDiagFunc: func(policyID any, _ cty.Path) diag.Diagnostics {
 			if localid.IsLocalID(policyID.(string)) {
-				return diag.Errorf("cannot directly reference unowned notification policy, use a notifcation policy with team_id set")
+				return diag.Errorf("cannot directly reference unnamed notification policy, use a notification policy with name set")
 			}
 			return nil
 		},
diff --git a/chronosphere/tfschema/notification_policy.go b/chronosphere/tfschema/notification_policy.go
index 2bac645..a25a1cf 100644
--- a/chronosphere/tfschema/notification_policy.go
+++ b/chronosphere/tfschema/notification_policy.go
@@ -26,18 +26,18 @@ import (
 const IndependentNotificationPolicyData = "__independent"
 
 var NotificationPolicy = map[string]*schema.Schema{
-	// NB: slug may be set if bucket_id or team_id is set, but cannot be set if bucket_id and team_id are unset.
+	// NB: slug can only be set if name is set, but cannot be set if name is unset, e.g. inline.
 	"slug": {
 		Type:     schema.TypeString,
 		Optional: true,
 		Computed: true,
 		ForceNew: true,
 	},
+	// NB: there is custom name ForceNew behavior in the DiffSuppressFunc.
 	"name": {
 		Type:     schema.TypeString,
 		Optional: true,
 	},
-	// NB: there is custom team_id ForceNew behavior in the DiffSuppressFunc.
 	"team_id": {
 		Type:         schema.TypeString,
 		Optional:     true,
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ var NotificationPolicy = map[string]*schema.Schema{
 		DiffSuppressFunc: JSONNotificationPolicyDiffSuppress,
 		ValidateFunc:     ValidateNotificationPolicyData,
 	},
-	// This field is for internal use only. We use it to force new resources when the ownership
-	// of a notification policy changes (from unowned to independent or vice versa)
+	// This field is for internal use only. We use it to force new resources when the name
+	// of a notification policy changes (from inline to independent or vice versa)
 	"is_independent": {
 		Type:     schema.TypeBool,
 		Computed: true,