# Gilt Groupe

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gilt-groupe/  
**Website:** https://www.gilt.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Gilt Groupe is a New York-based online retailer that pioneered the "flash sale" model in the United States, offering limited-time, members-only sales of discounted designer fashion, luxury goods, home items, and travel. Founded in 2007, Gilt was acquired by Hudson's Bay Company in 2016 and subsequently sold to Rue La La in 2018, forming Rue Gilt Groupe; the gilt.com storefront remains operational. Gilt's engineering team was an influential early adopter of Scala and microservices and open-sourced roughly fifty JVM libraries (the "gfc" Gilt Foundation Classes, Handlebars-Scala, sbt plugins) to Maven Central under the com.gilt groupId. Gilt operated no public REST API at the time of this enrichment pass - its historical developer.gilt.com API and the github.com/gilt organization are both retired. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Matrix Partners and profiled in the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 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).

## Security (1)

- **Gilt Groupe Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion, Flash Sale, Scala, Open-Source

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