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Brand and Company Name Normalization Rules and Best Practices

Company name normalization is a foundational step for clean GTM data, especially as AI amplifies the cost of poor quality. The article outlines practical rules—removing special characters, legal suffixes, standardizing case, extracting domains—and shows how Payfit cut duplicate records from 30% to 9%. It also covers fuzzy‑matching settings and how normalized names support account hierarchy mapping and compliance. Implementing these best practices enables more accurate reporting, efficient workflows, and higher revenue attribution.