onoma
Your AI brand consultant

Where iconic brands
begin.

Hiring a brand consultant costs $15K and takes six weeks. Onoma runs the same proven method — discovery, word mining, positioning shifts, live domain checks — in 15 minutes.

10–15 min · 3 named survivors
See a finished consultant brief
4-step
Consultant method, not a prompt box
Live
Domains checked across 5 TLDs
0% slop
No generic filler
Why not just ask ChatGPT directly?

Because AI without a method is just fast guesswork, not naming.

Naming has two hard parts. Coming up with good names is hard — and a raw prompt gives you generic, derivative, trend-chasing slop. Finding ones with an available domain is harder — most .coms are gone, and ChatGPT has no idea what's taken across any TLD. We fix both by layering a real creative method and live domain data on top of the same AI.

Problem one

The names are bad.

Ask ChatGPT for 20 names and you get Namifyr, BrandPilot, ClearlyAI, NameForge — the same suffix slop, the same compound mash-ups, the same trend-chasing prefixes. No taste. No method. No surprise. The AI is capable of brilliance; it just needs the right brief.

● ● ●Asking an LLM directly
YOU

"Give me 20 brandable names for a company-naming tool."

AI · 5 SECONDS LATER
  • Namifyrsuffix slop
  • BrandPilotgeneric compound
  • ClearlyAIall domains taken
  • NameForgestock corp
  • Nomen$24K premium domain
  • MarkBase$8K premium domain
  • Stripeliterally Stripe
  • …13 more — same problems

~70% derivative, trend-chasing, or trying too hard.

~80% have no available domain across the common TLDs.

Problem two

The good ones are taken.

The few names in the list that do sound brand-worthy? Already a Shopify store, a premium-priced domain, or parked across every TLD. The LLM has no way to know, and confidently hands them to you anyway.

◐ OnomaThe method
  1. 01
    A real creative method

    Before / after framing · word mining · cross-domain metaphor. The exercises pro brand consultants use — adapted for one founder in 10 minutes.

  2. 02
    Candidates rooted in your world

    Names built from the verbs, objects and metaphors specific to what you're making — guided by the method, not a generic startup prompt.

  3. 03
    Live domain availability, every name

    Live WHOIS on every candidate across the TLDs that matter. No guessing. Three ranked survivors at the end — domains you can actually register today.

3survivors that are both distinctive and have an available domain.
"Onoma is what 'ChatGPT for names' should have been. It thinks like a brand consultant and checks every domain before you fall in love."
— Daria Kim, brand director, ex-Pentagram
How it works

From a blank page to three great names — in three steps.

1Discover

Names that
actually fit.

Tell us about your business in four quick steps. Get candidates built from your answers, not a random generator.

verbsobjectsmetaphors
2Check

Real domain data,
not vibes.

Live WHOIS lookup for every candidate across the TLDs that matter. No 'this is safe' — just what's actually available.

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3Decide

Three names
that survive.

A clean one-page brief with domain availability for your top three. Hand it to your co-founder. Register the winner.

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Used by founders, brand designers & agency teams · 2,400+ sessions this quarterAI-guided naming · live WHOIS data