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This skill catches that mismatch before it costs you.\n\n## What it does\n\n- **Suggests** new names rooted in your origin language and culture.\n- **Checks** names you already have, market by market.\n- Runs every name through eight checks: hidden bad meanings, look-alike words,\n  pronunciation, spelling, legal distinctiveness, how it sounds aloud, tone fit for your\n  industry, and origin authenticity.\n- Answers in a compact table by default — everything readable at a glance — and only\n  expands into detail if you ask for it.\n\n## Why it exists\n\nReal examples the skill is built to catch:\n\n- **آنالی / \"Anali\"** — a lovely Azeri name, but the Latin spelling reads badly in English.\n- **\"framåt\"** (Swedish for *forward*) — sounds like \"frame\" to an English ear.\n- **نگار / \"Negar\"** — means *painting* in Persian, ideal for an art business, but the\n  spelling sits too close to an offensive English slur for a US-based brand.\n\n## Install\n\n**Option A — one click (easiest):**\nDownload [`business-name-fit.skill`](./business-name-fit.skill), open it in Claude, and\nclick **Save skill**. (Skill saving must be enabled for your account or organization.)\n\n**Option B — from the source folder:**\nCopy the [`business-name-fit/`](./business-name-fit) folder into your skills directory.\n\n## Use it\n\nJust describe your situation to Claude, for example:\n\n\u003e I'm an Iranian founder starting a childcare company for the Iranian and Gulf markets.\n\u003e I'm thinking of the name \"Anali\" — does it work?\n\nor\n\n\u003e Suggest some Persian-rooted names for an art-authentication startup based in the US.\n\n## Good to know\n\nThe skill flags—but cannot verify—**domain availability and trademarks**. Always check\nthose separately, and run your finalists past a **native speaker** of each target market.\n\n## Examples\n\nThree worked scenarios — a name fixed, a name approved, a name rejected — are in\n[`examples/worked-examples.md`](./business-name-fit/examples/worked-examples.md).\nA condensed version of the first:\n\n\u003e A Tehran childcare group called **Anali** is expanding to Dubai and Doha. The name is a\n\u003e warm Azeri girl's name and, on the sound check, close to ideal for childcare — soft\n\u003e consonants, open vowels. But the Latin spelling opens with a crude English word.\n\u003e\n\u003e The two checks disagreeing *is* the finding: the name fails on paper but not aloud. So\n\u003e the fix is not a rebrand but a respelling — **Annali** — which keeps exactly what\n\u003e Iranian parents already say.\n\nThe other two scenarios cover a Swedish consultancy whose name passes but sits in a\ncrowded namespace, and an Iranian-American art startup whose name fails twice over — once\non an unfortunate English association, and again because \"painting\" is legally descriptive\nfor a painting business.\n\n## Grounded in published research\n\nThe checks aren't invented — they draw on three freely downloadable sources, summarised in\n[`references/naming-research.md`](./business-name-fit/references/naming-research.md):\n\n- **WIPO, *Making a Mark*** — the name categories that decide whether a name can be legally\n  protected at all (generic, descriptive, deceptive, suggestive, coined).\n- **Kohli \u0026 LaBahn (1997), *Creating Effective Brand Names*** — the five-stage naming\n  process, and the warning that people ruin their own naming by rushing evaluation.\n- **Pogacar et al. (2015), *Sounds good*** — how a name's sounds shape the impression it\n  makes, and why those effects don't transfer automatically between languages.\n\n## More skills like this\n\n- **[Project Planning \u0026 Journaling](https://github.com/mh-mansouri/Project-Planning-Journaling)** —\n  scopes a project before any code is written, then keeps a living, resumable\n  documentation journal with a weekly routine review.\n- **[Embedded / IoT Mentor](https://github.com/mh-mansouri/embedded-iot-mentor)** —\n  picks the microcontroller, board, and toolchain for a hardware project, MVP-first.\n\n## Contributing\n\nImprovements are very welcome — especially language and cultural knowledge that helps the\nskill spot problems it might miss. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md).\n\n## License\n\nReleased under the [MIT License](./LICENSE) — free to use, share, and build on.\n\nOne bundled file is third-party: WIPO's *Making a Mark*, redistributed under\n[CC BY 3.0 IGO](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/) and not covered by the\nMIT License. Full attribution is in [NOTICE.md](./NOTICE.md).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2FElham-Farajnejad%2Fbusiness-name-fit","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2FElham-Farajnejad%2Fbusiness-name-fit","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2FElham-Farajnejad%2Fbusiness-name-fit/lists"}