Rename your business

Your name no longer fits.
Change it with confidence.

The business has grown, shifted or merged, and the name is quietly holding it back. Renaming feels risky, so it keeps getting deferred. Re:name tests what your current name is really costing you, then guides the rename with a decision you can defend. It is a naming decision platform, not a random generator.

Begin by testing your current name, free. See how much it is holding you back.

Why the rename keeps stalling

You have outgrown the name, but changing it feels risky.

The name made sense when you started. Now it is too narrow for what you do, hard to say on a call, easily confused with a competitor, or simply no longer you. But there is real value tied up in it, recognition, search ranking, the cards already printed, so the decision gets put off another quarter.

A rename is too important to make on a hunch, and too important to keep avoiding. It deserves a decision you can explain to your team, your board and your customers.

From "should we?" to a clear call.

Re:name gives a rename what a brainstorm never can: a framework.

Is the name the problem?

Start by measuring how much strategic risk your current name actually carries, so you rename for a reason, not a mood.

Keep what you have earned

Weigh the equity in the old name against its cost, and explore evolutions as well as clean breaks. You decide how far to move.

A decision you can defend

You finish with a scored shortlist and the reasoning behind it, ready to take to a board, an investor or the whole team.

How you rename with confidence.

The guided process moves through clear stages. You start free, and continue when you are ready.

Stage 1 · Free assessment

Begin with a free Name Risk Score on your current name. See how hard it is having to work and whether a rename is justified. This is the opening stage of the process.

Check your Name Risk Score
Stage 2 · Strategic foundation

Set the context, audience, positioning and the criteria the new name must meet. This is what turns a rename from a gamble into a considered decision.

Stage 3 · Directions

Explore evolutions that keep what your current name earns you, alongside clean-break directions, so you can see the full range before you choose.

Stage 4 · Test and refine

Generate and react to candidate names, refine what is close, and narrow towards a new name that genuinely fits where the business is going.

Stage 5 · Decision Report

Finish with a scored shortlist and a written rationale you can share, so the rename holds up under scrutiny.

Optional · Expert Review

Want a second opinion from a naming professional before you move? You can add a human Expert Review before you commit.

What you walk away with.

A clear read on the current name

A Name Risk Score that shows exactly where your existing name is strong and where it is costing you, so the case to rename is evidence, not opinion.

A written rationale

A Decision Report that explains why the new direction wins, ready to share with a board, investors or the wider team.

Evolve or clean break

Directions that keep hard-won recognition where it helps, and cut loose where it holds you back. The move is yours to size.

Early conflict signals

Preliminary checks that flag obvious clashes early, so you do not fall for a new name that is already taken.

Who this is for

For the business the name has quietly started to limit.

Established businesses that have outgrown a literal or founder-era name. Companies that have merged, pivoted or expanded past what their name describes. Teams carrying a name that is hard to say, hard to spell or too close to a competitor. If the name is going on a rebrand, a contract and the next decade of invoices, the decision is worth making properly.

Built on agency methodology

A naming practice, not a weekend tool.

Re:name comes from a working naming and branding practice and was recognised with the 2026 Global Naming Top Award. The guided process puts the same structured method used on full rebrand engagements into a tool you can run yourself.

A human in the loop, when you want one.

Self-guided by default, with expert help available at every level.

Guided Strategic Naming

The complete self-guided process, from strategic foundation to Decision Report. The full engagement is $1,495 + GST.

How it works →
Expert Review

Add a naming professional to pressure-test your rename before you commit to the change.

See Expert Review →
Full Engagements

Prefer it done with you, end to end? Our team can run the whole rebrand alongside you.

See Full Engagements →

A few things people ask before they start.

Work at your pace

Save and return whenever you like. Nothing is lost if you step away mid-process.

Bring the team

Built to be filled in together around one screen, so everyone owns the rename decision.

Upload what you have

Already done brand or strategy work? Upload it and the process builds on it.

Questions people ask.

That is exactly what the free first step helps you decide. Test your current name to see how much strategic risk it carries. Sometimes the name is fine and the positioning around it needs work; sometimes the name is genuinely holding the business back. The score tells you which.
A rename is not the same as throwing everything away. The guided process weighs what your current name earns you against what it costs you, and can explore evolutions that keep hard-won recognition as well as clean-break directions. You decide how far to move.
It surfaces preliminary conflict signals to help you avoid obvious clashes early. It is not a legal trademark clearance or a domain guarantee. Before you commit to a new name you should still run a formal trademark and availability check with a professional.
No. It is the first stage. It gives you an initial strategic read on your current name and shows whether the full Guided Strategic Naming process is the right next step for your rebrand.
You can start with a free Name Risk Score on your current name. The complete Guided Strategic Naming process is $1,495 + GST, which includes the full guided process and Decision Report. That sits well below a full agency rebrand engagement, which typically starts in the tens of thousands.

Rename it on purpose.

Start by testing your current name, free, and see whether it is time to change.

Begin with a free Name Risk Score on your current name.