Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe is the French-headquartered global marketing, communications and business-transformation holding company behind Publicis Sapient, Publicis Media, Epsilon, CJ Affiliate, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas and Razorfish. The Groupe itself runs no public developer program and publishes no API at publicisgroupe.com; its machine-readable surface is produced by the operating units. The largest publicly readable one is the Publicis Sapient KnowHOW suite — an Apache-2.0 engineering-KPI platform (knowhow-api / knowhow-ui / knowhow-common / knowhow-processors on GitHub, container psknowhow/knowhow-api on Docker Hub) whose Spring Boot service self-documents an OpenAPI at /api/v3/api-docs on whatever host an operator deploys it to, plus knowhow-mcp, a self-hosted MCP server exposing the KnowHOW documentation assistant. Alongside it Publicis Sapient publishes the @psnext npm scope — the sling CLI for the Sapient Slingshot enterprise LLM gateway, the lscg local source-context-graph CLI and stdio MCP server, and the Block SDK for building iframe Blocks on Publicis Groupe's CoreAI platform. Epsilon and CJ Affiliate, which do publish hosted API contracts, are profiled in their own API Evangelist repositories.

Publicis Groupe is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Advertising, Marketing, Media, and Digital Transformation.

Publicis Groupe’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, CLI, authentication, changelog, and 20 more developer resources.

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30.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 82/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

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2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Advertising Marketing Media Digital Transformation Consulting Artificial Intelligence Developer Tools Engineering Metrics Open Source MCPAgency Holding Company

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 30.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.3 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 9/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
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A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

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Access Clarity scores 31.9 — up to +13.6 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Professional Services (consulting, systems integrators, agencies)	builds-on	26.8 (thin)	-	-
Amazon Seller Ecosystem (Selling Partner Appstore, Amazon Ads partners)	builds-on	26.8 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Publicis Sapient KnowHOW

KnowHOW is Publicis Sapient's open-source (Apache-2.0) engineering measurement platform — a KPI dashboard that pulls from Jira, source control, CI and quality tools and reports ...

Sapient Slingshot

Sapient Slingshot is Publicis Sapient's proprietary AI software-engineering platform — an enterprise LLM gateway plus a family of agents for legacy modernization, spec generatio...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Publicis Groupe — Model Context Protocol servers

MCP SERVER

Publicis Groupe API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Publicis Groupe Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Publicis Groupe Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Publicis Groupe

9 quoted statements, read from Publicis Groupe's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Publicis Groupe

1 quoted statement, read from Publicis Groupe's own page on 2026-11-10.

ELIGIBILITY

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Publicis Groupe

1 quoted statement, read from Publicis Groupe's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

Security Posture 2

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

Publicis Groupe Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Publicis Groupe Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Components

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 4

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

Website

About

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: publicis-groupe
name: Publicis Groupe
description: Publicis Groupe is the French-headquartered global marketing, communications and business-transformation holding
  company behind Publicis Sapient, Publicis Media, Epsilon, CJ Affiliate, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas and Razorfish.
  The Groupe itself runs no public developer program and publishes no API at publicisgroupe.com; its machine-readable surface
  is produced by the operating units. The largest publicly readable one is the Publicis Sapient KnowHOW suite — an Apache-2.0
  engineering-KPI platform (knowhow-api / knowhow-ui / knowhow-common / knowhow-processors on GitHub, container psknowhow/knowhow-api
  on Docker Hub) whose Spring Boot service self-documents an OpenAPI at /api/v3/api-docs on whatever host an operator deploys
  it to, plus knowhow-mcp, a self-hosted MCP server exposing the KnowHOW documentation assistant. Alongside it Publicis Sapient
  publishes the @psnext npm scope — the sling CLI for the Sapient Slingshot enterprise LLM gateway, the lscg local source-context-graph
  CLI and stdio MCP server, and the Block SDK for building iframe Blocks on Publicis Groupe's CoreAI platform. Epsilon and
  CJ Affiliate, which do publish hosted API contracts, are profiled in their own API Evangelist repositories.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/publicis-groupe/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - publicissapient/knowhow-api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.publicisgroupe.com/themes/custom/publicis/front/src/images/theme/share.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:absent-parent
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-09-13'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Media
- Digital Transformation
- Consulting
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Engineering Metrics
- Open Source
- MCP
- Agency Holding Company
tags_raw:
- Company
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Media
- Digital Transformation
- Consulting
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Engineering Metrics
- Open Source
- Model Context Protocol
- Agency Holding Company
- Open-Source
position: Producing
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: publicis-groupe:publicis-groupe-knowhow
  name: Publicis Sapient KnowHOW
  description: 'KnowHOW is Publicis Sapient''s open-source (Apache-2.0) engineering measurement platform — a KPI dashboard
    that pulls from Jira, source control, CI and quality tools and reports delivery health across transformation programmes.
    It is a self-hosted product, not a hosted API: the Spring Boot service is served under the /api context path and generates
    its own OpenAPI 3 document at /api/v3/api-docs (Swagger UI at /api/swagger-ui/index.html) on whatever host the operator
    deploys, so no single public base URL exists and API Evangelist did not capture a static spec. Authentication is a session
    cookie (authCookie) or an x-api-key header.'
  humanURL: https://knowhow.suite.publicissapient.com/wiki/spaces/PS/pages/5570561/KnowHOW
  baseURL: https://{knowhow-host}/api
  tags:
  - Engineering Metrics
  - DevOps
  - KPI
  - Open Source
  - Self-Hosted
  tags_raw:
  - Engineering Metrics
  - DevOps
  - KPI
  - Open Source
  - Self-Hosted
  - Open-Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://knowhow.suite.publicissapient.com/wiki/spaces/PS/pages/5570561/KnowHOW
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://knowhow.suite.publicissapient.com/wiki/spaces/PS/pages/7864331/KnowHOW+Installation+Upgrade
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/PublicisSapient/knowhow-api
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/PublicisSapient/knowhow-api/releases
- aid: publicis-groupe:publicis-groupe-sapient-slingshot
  name: Sapient Slingshot
  description: Sapient Slingshot is Publicis Sapient's proprietary AI software-engineering platform — an enterprise LLM gateway
    plus a family of agents for legacy modernization, spec generation and code delivery. The client surface published to the
    public is the npm package @psnext/slingcli, which installs a `sling` CLI that authenticates to Slingshot over a browser
    OAuth flow (/login slingshot) or a pre-issued SLINGSHOT_TOKEN bearer token and then routes to the gateway's model catalogue.
    The gateway's HTTP contract itself is not published; the only gateway host observed in first-party source is an internal
    one that does not resolve on the public internet, so no base URL is recorded.
  humanURL: https://www.publicissapient.com/platforms/slingshot
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - LLM Gateway
  - Coding Agents
  - Developer Tools
  tags_raw:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - LLM Gateway
  - Coding Agent
  - Developer Tools
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.publicissapient.com/platforms/slingshot
  - type: CLI
    url: cli/publicis-groupe-cli.yml
common:
- url: https://www.publicisgroupe.com/fr/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/publicis-groupe-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.publicisgroupe.com/en
- type: About
  url: https://www.publicisgroupe.com/en/the-groupe/about-publicis-groupe
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.publicisgroupe.com/en/legal-mentions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.publicisgroupe.com/en/cookies
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.publicissapient.com/resources/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.publicissapient.com/contact
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PublicisSapient
- type: Packages
  url: packages/publicis-groupe-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/publicis-groupe-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/publicis-groupe-cli.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/publicis-groupe-components.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/publicis-groupe-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/publicis-groupe-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/publicis-groupe-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/publicis-groupe-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/publicis-groupe-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/publicis-groupe-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/publicis-groupe-changelog.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/publicis-groupe-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/publicis-groupe-rate-limits.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/publicis-groupe-terms-of-service.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/publicis-groupe-eligibility.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/publicis-groupe-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: local-v3

Publicis Groupe API — frequently asked questions

Does Publicis Groupe have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Publicis Groupe, including Publicis Sapient KnowHOW and Sapient Slingshot.

How do I authenticate with the Publicis Groupe API?

Publicis Groupe uses bearer-token authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Publicis Groupe Authentication.

Does Publicis Groupe have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Publicis Groupe.

Is the Publicis Groupe API ready for AI agents?

Publicis Groupe has a Kin Score of 30.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 8.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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