aid: assi
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/assi.png
name: Assist
description: >-
  Assist (assi.st) was a San Francisco conversational-commerce platform founded in 2015 by Shane Mac,
  Giovanni Vatieri, and Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens, and backed by Slow Ventures. Assist built
  branded chatbot and voice assistant experiences that let consumers order, book, and pay inside
  messaging channels, running deployments for brands including Fandango, 1-800-Flowers, and Hyatt
  across Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Twitter, Apple Business Chat, Amazon Alexa, and Google
  Assistant, where it shipped one of the first Google Actions at launch in 2016. Conversocial acquired
  Assist in March 2019 and Shane Mac became Conversocial's Chief Automation Officer. The assi.st
  domain is now parked with no web host, and Assist never published a public developer portal, API
  documentation, or machine-readable API specification, so there is no API surface to catalog.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/assi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by:
  name: Conversocial
  url: https://www.conversocial.com
  date: '2019-03-19'
  source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/conversocial-acquires-ai-powered-conversational-commerce-platform-assist-300813657.html
x-domain-status: parked
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Conversational Commerce
- Chatbots
- Messaging
- Customer Experience
- Artificial Intelligence
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://assi.st
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/assist
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/assi-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1