lp-do-assessment-04-candidate-names — Candidate Names Pipeline (ASSESSMENT-04)

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Orchestrates the complete four-part naming pipeline from a standing start to a domain-verified, ranked shortlist. The operator receives a shortlist where every name has a confirmed available .com and a multi-dimension quality score.

When to use

Use when a brand name is open (not yet committed) and the business has completed ASSESSMENT-03 (product option selected). Run on user instruction:

/lp-do-assessment-04-candidate-names --business <BIZ>

Rerunnable. If a spec and/or candidates file already exist from a prior round, the pipeline resumes from the correct part rather than starting over — see §Resume logic below.

Execution

Parts 1–3: Spec, Generate, RDAP Check

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Parts 4–5: Rank and Render HTML

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Resume logic

If the pipeline is interrupted or rerun, check which parts are already complete:

When resuming from Part 2 after a new round (new eliminated names added to spec), use a new date-stamped candidates filename so prior rounds are preserved.

Quality Gate and New Round Logic

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Completion message

Present the top 10 from the shortlist inline in the conversation, preceded by the score key:

Score key: D = Distinctiveness · W = Wordmark quality · P = Phonetics (IT+EN) · E = Expansion headroom · I = ICP resonance · Score = sum out of 25

Naming pipeline complete — <BIZ> Round N N domain-verified names found from 250 candidates. Top 10:

Rank	Name	Score	D	W	P	E	I	.com domain
1	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	available
...

Full shortlist (top 20) saved to:

• naming-shortlist-<date>.user.md (source of truth)
• naming-shortlist-<date>.user.html (formatted view — open in browser)

To select a name, say which one. To reject and try again, say "none of these work" — optionally tell me why and I'll encode it as a constraint for the next round.

Integration

Upstream (ASSESSMENT-03): Runs after /lp-do-assessment-03-solution-selection produces a product decision record.

Downstream (ASSESSMENT-06): /lp-do-assessment-06-distribution-profiling runs after the operator confirms a working name from the shortlist.