# Assist

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/assi/  
**Website:** https://assi.st  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.1 from 5.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Assi Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Conversational Commerce, Chatbots, Messaging, Customer Experience, Artificial Intelligence, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/assi/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.