Thousands of products now market themselves as agentic AI. And most of their names crowd into the same 18 territories the chatbots were trained on. That math should worry every founder naming one.
Ask any founder with a chatbot open: generating names for a product has never been easier. A long list appears in minutes. But this is the great naming illusion of the AI era: the belief that because generating names is now free, or nearly so, the naming challenge itself has been solved.
Thousands of products now market themselves as agentic AI. And most of their names crowd into the same 18 territories the chatbots were trained on. That math should worry every founder naming one.
Ask any founder with a chatbot open: generating names for a product has never been easier. A long list appears in minutes. But this is the great naming illusion of the AI era: the belief that because generating names is now free, or nearly so, the naming challenge itself has been solved. Design
