# Element AI

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/element-ai/  
**Website:** https://www.servicenow.com/research/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Element AI was a Montreal, Quebec-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 by Jean-Francois Gagne, Yoshua Bengio, Nicolas Chapados, Philippe Beaudoin, Anne Martel, and Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer. It operated as an AI systems integrator and professional-services firm with the mission of putting advanced AI capabilities - natural language processing, computer vision, document intelligence, and conversational AI - in reach of traditional enterprises. After raising roughly US$102M plus Canadian government funding and reaching an estimated US$600-700M valuation in 2019, the company ran short of runway and was acquired by ServiceNow (announced November 30, 2020; closed January 8, 2021 for approximately US$230M). Its research group became ServiceNow Research and its former domain now redirects there. The company no longer operates independently and publishes no standalone public API, developer portal, or SDKs.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| 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).

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer-Vision, Enterprise AI, Montreal, Acquired, ServiceNow

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