Assist

Assist (assi.st) was a San Francisco conversational-commerce platform founded in 2015 by Shane Mac, Giovanni Vatieri, and Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens, and backed by Slow Ventures. Assist built branded chatbot and voice assistant experiences that let consumers order, book, and pay inside messaging channels, running deployments for brands including Fandango, 1-800-Flowers, and Hyatt across Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Twitter, Apple Business Chat, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant, where it shipped one of the first Google Actions at launch in 2016. Conversocial acquired Assist in March 2019 and Shane Mac became Conversocial's Chief Automation Officer. The assi.st domain is now parked with no web host, and Assist never published a public developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API specification, so there is no API surface to catalog.

Assist is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Conversational Commerce, Chatbots, Messaging, and Customer Experience.

Assist’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 2 more developer resources.

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7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyConversational CommerceChatbotsMessagingCustomer ExperienceArtificial IntelligenceAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Assi Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: assi
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
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  label: Unknown
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/assi.png
name: Assist
description: Assist (assi.st) was a San Francisco conversational-commerce platform founded in 2015 by Shane Mac, Giovanni
  Vatieri, and Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens, and backed by Slow Ventures. Assist built branded chatbot and voice assistant
  experiences that let consumers order, book, and pay inside messaging channels, running deployments for brands including
  Fandango, 1-800-Flowers, and Hyatt across Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Twitter, Apple Business Chat, Amazon Alexa, and
  Google Assistant, where it shipped one of the first Google Actions at launch in 2016. Conversocial acquired Assist in March
  2019 and Shane Mac became Conversocial's Chief Automation Officer. The assi.st domain is now parked with no web host, and
  Assist never published a public developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API specification, so there is
  no API surface to catalog.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/assi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
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x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by:
  name: Conversocial
  url: https://www.conversocial.com
  date: '2019-03-19'
  source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/conversocial-acquires-ai-powered-conversational-commerce-platform-assist-300813657.html
x-domain-status: parked
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Conversational Commerce
- Chatbots
- Messaging
- Customer Experience
- Artificial Intelligence
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Website
  url: https://assi.st
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/assist
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/assi-domain-security.yml
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