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Changing your name is the easy part. Telling everyone is the slog: banks, super, Medicare, insurance, the lot. Surname Switch does that work, and keeps none of your data. Here: what we do, how it works, and quotable messages.
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Surname Switch (surnameswitch.com) is an Australian service that does a name change's admin for you. Marrying, divorcing or changing your name by deed poll is the easy part. Notifying every organisation still holding the old name is the hard part.
The average Australian has 40 to 60: driver licence, Medicare, banks, super funds, insurers, energy retailers, the gym, the vet.
Surname Switch turns that into an afternoon. It builds a personalised, ordered checklist of your actual organisations. It prefills the official government forms, ready to sign and lodge. AI drafts every notification message. You review, send and tick off.
It costs a one-off $25 for Lite or $65 for Powered, with no subscription. It is private by design. Your details fill the forms and write the messages, then stay on your device, never on our servers.
What we do
Enter your details once. The official forms, Medicare, the electoral roll, super and more, come back prefilled, ready to sign and lodge. No retyping the same details, form after form.
For each organisation, AI drafts a correct, polite name-change message with the right details already in it. You review and send.
Every place that still holds the old name, in one ordered, trackable list, so nothing is forgotten. Save progress and come back any time.
Not a generic list. Your real bank, your real super fund, your real energy retailer, in the right order for your state and situation.
How it works
State, situation, the name you are taking, who you bank with. About three minutes, and seeing the plan is free.
Every organisation grouped into phases, ID first so everything after it goes smoothly, with the exact action for each one.
The official forms are filled ready to sign; each notification message is drafted with your details in it.
You stay in control at every step. Most people clear the important half in an afternoon.
Key messages
Attribute to Ryan Withers, founder of Surname Switch. Free to use as written.
"Changing your name is the easy part. The slog is telling everyone, and the average Australian has 40 to 60 organisations still holding their old name."
"We do the admin so you do not have to. Your forms come back filled in, your emails come back written, all in one checklist of your actual companies."
"We never hold your data. Your details fill your forms and draft your messages, then they stay on your device, not on our servers. You hold the power."
"It is one afternoon and one payment, not a subscription. See your whole plan free, and pay $25 only when you want us to do the work."
Ryan Withers is an Australian founder who is not a programmer. He built and runs Surname Switch with AI doing the engineering: the app itself, and the automated operations behind it.
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