NameIntel

Clear to launch. Score brand names across domain, trademark, social, SEO, and AI findability — pay-per-call via x402 micropayments, no signup, no API keys.

NameIntel is a remote Model Context Protocol server that scores brand names across five dimensions and returns a composite 0–100 score with sub-scores and a verdict. The scoring engine is also reachable as a REST API. Every endpoint is priced in USDC and settled over the x402 protocol on Base and Solana — there are no API keys to provision, no accounts to sign up for, and no rate-limit setup.

This repository is the public face of the project: install instructions, registry submissions, docs, and discovery manifests. The hosted service runs at nameintel.io.

Quick install

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http nameintel https://mcp.nameintel.io/mcp

Claude Desktop: Settings → Connectors → Add → paste https://mcp.nameintel.io/mcp.

That's it. There's no API key. The first time you call a tool the request returns HTTP 402 with the price (between $0.01 and $0.05 USDC depending on the tool); sign the payment with a Base or Solana wallet, retry, and it works. The Coinbase x402 facilitator verifies and settles in under a second.

What it scores

Dimension	What you get
Domain	Availability + pricing across .com, .io, .ai, .app, .co, .dev and other TLDs. Premium and auction detection.
Trademark	USPTO conflict screening. Exact matches, similar marks, Nice class analysis, risk level.
Social	Handle availability across 12+ platforms (X, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub, Threads, more).
SEO	Keyword strength, search-friendliness, and competition risk.
GEO	Industry-first. AI findability — how likely the name surfaces correctly in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Entity collision, semantic distinctiveness, corpus saturation, phonetic clarity.

Tools

Tool	Endpoint	Price
score_name	POST /api/v1/score	$0.05 USDC
Basic name score (no GEO)	POST /api/v1/score/basic	$0.02 USDC
check_domain	POST /api/v1/check/domain	$0.01 USDC
check_trademark	POST /api/v1/check/trademark	$0.01 USDC
check_social	POST /api/v1/check/social	$0.01 USDC
check_geo	POST /api/v1/check/geo	$0.03 USDC

REST API

If MCP isn't your fit, the same scoring engine is exposed as a REST API at https://api.nameintel.io. The OpenAPI 3.1 spec is served live at /openapi.json and any framework that auto-imports OpenAPI (LangChain, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK) will wire up tool wrappers from it.

# Calling /api/v1/score without payment returns a 402 with the full menu:
curl -X POST https://api.nameintel.io/api/v1/score \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Lumina"}'
# → HTTP 402, body is a JSON price menu + payment manifest link

Machine-readable manifests

Every important surface is self-describing. Agents and discovery tools should prefer these over scraping prose.

• /.well-known/mcp.json — MCP server URL, tool inventory, prices
• /.well-known/x402 — payment manifest (chains, receivers, facilitators)
• /openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the REST API
• /changelog.json — version + breaking-change tracking
• /health — liveness plus full capability inventory
• llms.txt — LLM-readable summary with embedded YAML manifest

Why this exists

When an AI agent helps a founder start a company, the first thing it needs is a clear-to-launch brand name. Today there is no agent-native tool for this — every existing naming tool requires a human in the loop, an API key, or a subscription. NameIntel is the tool that agent calls: one endpoint, USDC settlement, no friction.

The pricing also makes new use cases viable. A $0.01 trademark check or $0.05 brand-name score can't profitably exist on card rails — Stripe's smallest economically-viable transaction is around $0.50 net of fees. USDC on Base settles those amounts with sub-cent fees and sub-second finality, which is the difference between a market that exists and one that does not.

Repository contents

Path	What it is
registry-submissions/	Drafted submission packs for MCP / x402 / agent-discovery registries (MCP.so, MACH Alliance, Azure API Center, x402.org, awesome-mcp-servers, Kong, MCP Compass, AAIF). Exact text + submission paths.
docs/	Public-facing strategy and design docs — including agent-discovery-strategy.md, the rationale for the discovery surface this service ships.
LICENSE	MIT.

Status

	Status
Service	✅ Live at api.nameintel.io and mcp.nameintel.io
x402 mode	bypass (free during ecosystem launch). Will flip to enforce after live-payload verification.
Phase	1 — MCP + API. Phase 2 (Stripe web app for human users) lands later.

Built with

Built by Silverback CTO and CogleGroup using the Velocity Process methodology.

• AWS App Runner + CloudFront + Route 53
• TypeScript + Express + the MCP TypeScript SDK
• Claude (via AWS Bedrock) for the GEO score
• USPTO TSDR API for trademark screening
• Coinbase x402 facilitator for payment verification

Contact

• Issues / suggestions: open an issue on this repo
• Commercial / agency: [email protected]
• Twitter/X: @toddamerrill

License

MIT