Checkname.ch provides AI-powered name availability checks for Swiss businesses, combining official trademark (IGE) and company (ZEFIX) registers with similarity detection that catches visually, phonetically, and semantically similar conflicts. The platform delivers risk assessments in under two minutes, covering trademarks, company names, and domain availability in a single search. A B2B partner API enables SaaS platforms, fiduciaries, and legal-tech products to embed these name assessment capabilities directly into their own onboarding and review workflows.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Entrepreneurs and businesses launching in Switzerland face a crowded market with over 558,000 active trademarks and 55,000+ new company registrations annually. Basic exact-match searches fail to detect confusingly similar names that can lead to commercial register rejection, costly legal disputes, forced rebranding, and non-refundable filing fees.
Solution
Checkname.ch provides an AI-powered name availability platform that simultaneously checks Swiss official registers—including the trademark register (IGE) and company register (ZEFIX)—along with domain availability and web presence. Unlike free tools that only find exact matches, the platform's proprietary AI identifies visually, phonetically, and semantically similar names that pose real legal threats. Users receive a professional conflict likelihood score and a clear risk overview within two minutes, enabling informed decisions before investing in branding, domains, or registration fees. The platform also offers a B2B partner API that allows SaaS platforms, legal-tech products, fiduciaries, and onboarding systems to integrate machine-readable company-name assessments directly into their own workflows, with stable response codes for automated decision routing.
Target Audience
Primary customers are entrepreneurs, founders, startups, and agencies launching new businesses or brands in Switzerland, as well as SaaS platforms, legal-tech products, fiduciaries, and internal compliance teams needing automated name assessment capabilities through the B2B API.
Features
- AI-powered similarity detection covering visual, phonetic, and semantic matches across Swiss trademark and company registers
- Simultaneous 4-in-1 validation: trademark search, company name search, domain availability, and web presence check
- Conflict likelihood scoring with clear risk levels instead of raw data lists
- Daily database updates from official Swiss registries (IGE and ZEFIX)
- B2B Partner API with endpoints for name assessment, bundled screening, conflict search, and trademark search, using X-API-Key authentication and stable code-based responses
- Automated reports delivered in under 2 minutes with support for German, French, and Italian linguistic variations
- Domain availability scanning across .ch, .swiss, and global extensions like .com and .ai