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Diamond Award · Brand Naming

Guided strategic naming for businesses that need more than a brainstorm.

Re:name helps leadership teams, founders and agencies make confident naming decisions through a strategic process built by award-winning naming specialists. Start with the self-guided platform. Add expert review if you need senior confidence. Bring us in fully when the decision is complex, cultural or high-stakes.

9 International naming awards
200+ Names delivered
2026 Transform Diamond Award winner
AKL · SYD Working globally
Who it is for

For naming decisions that actually matter.

Re:name is built for teams who need a name they can explain, defend and use with confidence.

  • Established businesses renaming after growth, confusion or repositioning
  • Founders launching something too important for a quick AI prompt
  • Agencies running naming work for clients
  • Leadership teams that need a board-ready decision
  • Product, service or sub-brand launches with real commercial stakes
  • Not-for-profits and purpose-led organisations where trust matters

It is probably not for throwaway side projects, hobby names or anyone looking for hundreds of instant options.

The problem

Most naming projects do not fail creatively. They fail because no one can decide.

The team has ideas. The board has opinions. Someone likes a clever name. Someone else wants safe. Someone checks a domain. Someone finds a competitor. The shortlist keeps changing.

Six weeks later, the launch is still waiting.

Re:name gives the decision a structure. We start with strategy, turn that into naming territories, generate names against clear requirements, then help you decide what is worth taking forward.

Three ways to engage

Three ways to name properly.

The right pathway depends on stakes, complexity and how much support the decision needs.

1 · Guided Strategic Naming

The productised naming process.

For businesses too important for ChatGPT, but not ready for a full agency engagement. A self-guided strategic process from business context to a board-ready decision report.

$895 (early access)
Founders SMEs Agencies Internal teams
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2 · Expert Review

Senior eyes before you commit.

Complete the guided process, then bring in a Re:name strategist to review your shortlist, challenge the risks and recommend the strongest path.

From $3,495
Boards Founders Leadership teams
Enquire about Expert Review
3 · Full Strategic Naming Engagement

The full consultancy process.

For complex naming decisions involving stakeholder research, cultural considerations, brand architecture, mergers, legal risk or board-level facilitation.

From $15,000
Healthcare Mergers Government High-stakes renames
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Why Guided Strategic Naming exists

AI can generate names. That is not the hard part.

The hard part is knowing which name is strategically right, commercially useful, memorable, credible, ownable and worth committing to.

Guided Strategic Naming does not start with names. It starts with the decision.

You will define what the business does, how it is different, why it matters, who needs to trust it, what the name must achieve, what must be avoided and what kind of name will help the business grow.

Only then do the names get generated, assessed and refined.

What you receive

A naming decision report, not a pile of names.

Decision-ready. Defensible to whoever needs to sign it off.

The strategy stack

  • Your strategic position
  • Selected naming territories
  • Round 1 and Round 2 name exploration
  • Your reactions and feedback captured throughout

The decision

  • Top name recommendations
  • Scoring against your naming requirements
  • Key risks and mitigations
  • Domain and conflict signals
  • Recommended next steps

Use it with your board, business partner, internal team or client.

Proof

The same strategic thinking behind award-winning names.

Re:name's process has helped create names including Allevia, Niko, Mai Lighthouse, Real Meals, pH7 and Octo. These were not random creative leaps. They came from strategy, evidence, reduction, judgement and a clear understanding of what each business needed the name to do.

Healthcare · Consolidation

Allevia

A name created to carry forward a 140-year legacy while giving a modern healthcare group a clearer, more unified future.

Energy · Engineering

Niko

A name created to move beyond Tesla confusion while preserving the deeper Nikola Tesla lineage in a shorter, more ownable form.

Social services

Mai Lighthouse

A name that combines cultural relevance with a universal metaphor of guidance, support and safety.

FMCG · Growth

Real Meals

A direct, useful name that made the offer instantly clear and helped shift the brand from niche outdoor product to broader retail relevance.

Chemical safety

pH7

A compact, category-literate name that signals neutrality, chemistry and practical protection.

Industrial · Consolidation

Octo

A unifying name for multiple businesses coming together, built around the idea of many capabilities moving as one.

Founder

Built by naming specialists, not a software company.

I'm Tim Dove, Strategic Director at Re:name. For more than 20 years, I've helped leadership teams name businesses, products, services and organisations across New Zealand, Australia and beyond.

After seeing the same naming problems repeat, I built Guided Strategic Naming to give more businesses access to a serious naming process without needing a full consultancy engagement from day one.

The goal is simple: help you reach a name you can defend, not just one you like.

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Tim explains · 90 seconds

Why naming gets stuck

And how the process helps you get unstuck.

Optional. The process speaks for itself, but the founder bit lands harder out loud.

Access programmes

Supporting the right projects.

Re:name occasionally provides access codes for education, enterprise programmes, incubators, not-for-profits and founder support initiatives.

These do not change the core product. They simply make the process more accessible for groups we want to support.

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Frequently asked

Common questions.

No. AI is part of the system, but the product is a guided strategic naming process. The difference is structure. Re:name starts with business context, strategy, naming territories, decision criteria and feedback. Names are generated and judged against that framework. A generator gives you options. Re:name helps you make a decision.
Because you are not buying a list of names. You are buying a structured decision process based on agency naming methodology. The alternative is usually either a free tool with no strategic judgement, or a full agency engagement starting from $15,000 to $50,000+. Guided Strategic Naming sits in the middle.
If you complete the process properly and do not have at least one name worth taking forward, we will review your project and either run an expert-guided refinement pass or refund you. The process works best when you give thoughtful inputs and specific feedback between rounds.
Re:name provides early conflict signals and obvious brand-clash screening. This is not legal trademark clearance. Before adopting a final name, you should seek legal trademark advice in your relevant markets.
Yes. Agencies can use Re:name to support client naming projects, sharpen strategy and generate a defensible shortlist. For regular agency use, contact us about partner access.
Yes. That is exactly how the model is designed. Start with Guided Strategic Naming. If the decision needs senior judgement, use Expert Review. If the project needs full facilitation, move into a strategic naming engagement.

Your good idea
deserves a good name.

Start the Re:name Global process. $895 early access. Two rounds. Board-ready decision report. Done in 2 to 4 days.

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