2 builders who never spoke to each other
Name the product for effect, not description
A flat label describing the mechanism throws away free work a name could be doing. Reach instead for something with a shape people can hold, up to a human first name with a definite article, so the thing can be introduced to a team the way a colleague would be. The name is doing positioning before a word of copy gets read.
The method
- 01
Name a new product line with something other than a flat descriptive label.
- 02
Give the product a human first name and describe it with a definite article, so it can be introduced to a team as a single colleague.
What it returned
- 11x
Pilot markets an AI Accountant, 11x calls its prospecting worker Alice, Cognition calls its engineer Devin. A product that cannot be introduced to a Slack channel as one named colleague falls outside the category.
Article body is images only, so the four named methods are not recoverable from the text
Sources
- Four (not boring) ways to name a new product lineHarry Dry · Marketing Examples · undated
- AI Employees: Named Personas, Cautionary Tale, Outcome Pricing - Trends.vcDru Riley · trends.vc · 🔑 Key Lessons · 2026-05-21
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
More in copy
- Keep the personality that drives some people off7 unconnected
- Interview buyers and write the page in their sentences6 unconnected
- Re-aim one durable claim at today's worry5 unconnected
- Answer the predictable objection with a specific4 unconnected
- Say the thing only you could have said4 unconnected
- Tighten the headline until only your segment fits4 unconnected