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
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
tags:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Beauty
- Salons
- 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'