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The Brandtech Group

The Brandtech Group is a privately held marketing and marketing-technology holding group founded in 2015 by former Havas CEO David Jones as You & Mr Jones and renamed in 2022. It positions itself as a generative-AI marketing group and operates a portfolio of wholly owned brands rather than a single product: Oliver (in-house agency), Jellyfish (digital and performance marketing), Pencil (a generative-AI creative platform for ad copy, image and video), Acorn-i (Amazon and ecommerce retail-media analytics), fifty-five and DP6 (data and marketing science), Collectively (creator and influencer marketing), Mobkoi, Gravity Road, Mofilm and Brandtech Consulting. Its customer-facing software surface is Pencil, a SaaS platform that orchestrates third-party generative-AI models (OpenAI, Google, Adobe, Runway, Bria) and pushes creative into Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Google Display, DV360 and LinkedIn. The group publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract, and no public API keys or SDKs; integration is delivered through the products themselves and through partner connectors.

The Brandtech Group is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Marketing, Advertising, Generative AI, and Creative.

The Brandtech Group’s developer surface includes pricing, signup flow, support, engineering blog, changelog, and 16 more developer resources.

29.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
AccessPaid
0 APIs
CompanyMarketingAdvertisingGenerative AICreativeMarketing TechnologyRetail MediaAnalyticsAgency

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

The Brandtech Group Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

The Brandtech Group Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

The Brandtech Group Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: the-brandtech-group
name: The Brandtech Group
description: 'The Brandtech Group is a privately held marketing and marketing-technology holding group founded in 2015 by
  former Havas CEO David Jones as You & Mr Jones and renamed in 2022. It positions itself as a generative-AI marketing group
  and operates a portfolio of wholly owned brands rather than a single product: Oliver (in-house agency), Jellyfish (digital
  and performance marketing), Pencil (a generative-AI creative platform for ad copy, image and video), Acorn-i (Amazon and
  ecommerce retail-media analytics), fifty-five and DP6 (data and marketing science), Collectively (creator and influencer
  marketing), Mobkoi, Gravity Road, Mofilm and Brandtech Consulting. Its customer-facing software surface is Pencil, a SaaS
  platform that orchestrates third-party generative-AI models (OpenAI, Google, Adobe, Runway, Bria) and pushes creative into
  Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Google Display, DV360 and LinkedIn. The group publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI or other
  machine-readable contract, and no public API keys or SDKs; integration is delivered through the products themselves and
  through partner connectors.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-brandtech-group/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://thebrandtechgroup.com/apple-touch-icon.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-30'
modified: '2026-08-30'
tags:
- Company
- Marketing
- Advertising
- Generative AI
- Creative
- Marketing Technology
- Retail Media
- Analytics
- Agency
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-brandtech-group-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://thebrandtechgroup.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://trypencil.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.trypencil.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.trypencil.com/login
- type: Support
  url: https://help.trypencil.com/en/
- type: Blog
  url: https://trypencil.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/thebrandtechgroup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://trypencil.com/legals/pencil-pro-terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://thebrandtechgroup.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.trypencil.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.trypencil.com/
- type: SecondaryMarketListing
  url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/the-brandtech-group-stock
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/the-brandtech-group-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/the-brandtech-group-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/the-brandtech-group-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/the-brandtech-group-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/the-brandtech-group-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/the-brandtech-group-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/the-brandtech-group-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/the-brandtech-group-packages.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-30'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 11
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: The Brandtech Group sells agency services and one end-user SaaS product (Pencil) and runs no developer program at
    all — trypencil.com/openapi.json 404s, app.trypencil.com, pro.trypencil.com and cn.trypencil.com answer every spec, GraphQL
    and /.well-known path with the same 3,480-byte React shell, and the one production API host in the group, api.acorn-i.com,
    is an AWS API Gateway that returns "Missing Authentication Token" on its root with no documentation, sign-up or key issuance
    published anywhere.
  evidence:
  - url: https://trypencil.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://app.trypencil.com/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.acorn-i.com/openapi.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://trypencil.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://trypencil.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-30'

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