Kiute was a French salon management and online booking platform for hair salons, barbershops and beauty institutes, formed from the September 2020 merger of Flexy (FlexyBeauty) and LeCiseau, backed by Serena, Newfund, Matmut Innovation, 123IM, UL Invest and Bourrelier Group. Its Kiute Pro product combined a point-of-sale till, appointment calendar, client records, marketing and an online booking marketplace serving roughly 10,000 beauty and wellness businesses. Booksy acquired Kiute on 2021-11-09 and has since retired the brand: as of 2026-08-17 every Kiute host answers a blanket HTTP 301 to Booksy for every path — kiute.com, www.kiute.com, app.kiute.com and kiute.fr to https://booksy.com/fr-fr/, pro.kiute.com to https://biz.booksy.com/fr-fr — and no api, docs, developers or help subdomain resolves. Kiute publishes no API, no specification and no developer program of its own; the successor surface is the Booksy Public API, profiled separately in this network at all/booksy/ and documented at docs.booksy.com.
Kiute is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Marketplace, Beauty, Salon, and Booking.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so
Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite.
If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your
provider repo — the
applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for
this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal
weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
Show this score on your site.
It updates itself when the score changes. Paste this where you link to your API docs:
<a href="https://apis.io/providers/kiute/"><img src="https://apis.io/badge/kiute/card.svg" alt="Kiute on APIs.io — Kin Score by API Evangelist"></a>
Other styles, a README pill and a shields.io endpoint are on the badge page.
Raise your score.
Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
Machine-Readable Auth+10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency+9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics+8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
aid: kiute
name: Kiute
description: 'Kiute was a French salon management and online booking platform for hair salons, barbershops and beauty institutes,
formed from the September 2020 merger of Flexy (FlexyBeauty) and LeCiseau, backed by Serena, Newfund, Matmut Innovation,
123IM, UL Invest and Bourrelier Group. Its Kiute Pro product combined a point-of-sale till, appointment calendar, client
records, marketing and an online booking marketplace serving roughly 10,000 beauty and wellness businesses. Booksy acquired
Kiute on 2021-11-09 and has since retired the brand: as of 2026-08-17 every Kiute host answers a blanket HTTP 301 to Booksy
for every path — kiute.com, www.kiute.com, app.kiute.com and kiute.fr to https://booksy.com/fr-fr/, pro.kiute.com to https://biz.booksy.com/fr-fr
— and no api, docs, developers or help subdomain resolves. Kiute publishes no API, no specification and no developer program
of its own; the successor surface is the Booksy Public API, profiled separately in this network at all/booksy/ and documented
at docs.booksy.com.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kiute/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: serena-portfolio
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-acquired-by: booksy
x-acquired-date: '2021-11-09'
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source:
- security
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
tags:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Beauty
- Salon
- Booking
- Appointments
- Point-of-Sale
- Small Business
- France
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Beauty
- Salons
- Booking
- Appointments
- Point Of Sale
- Small Business
- France
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/kiute-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.kiute.com/
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-17'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 2
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Kiute was acquired by Booksy on 2021-11-09 and the brand is fully retired — every path on every Kiute host returns
a blanket HTTP 301 to booksy.com or biz.booksy.com, no api/docs/ developers subdomain resolves, and the wildcard TLS certificate
on www.kiute.com expired on 2026-08-13 and is being served unrenewed.
evidence:
- url: https://www.kiute.com/
status: 301
- url: https://pro.kiute.com/
status: 301
- url: https://www.kiute.com/openapi.json
status: 301
- url: https://www.kiute.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 301
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/kiute
status: 404
checked: '2026-08-17'
Calls without X-API-Key need no key. Calls with it need a paid plan — get a key.
Get an API key
Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we
store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another
provider. See our Privacy Policy and
Terms.