SCHEDULED OUTAGE OpenAI Assistants API — hard shutdown 2026-08-26 T-MINUS — d — h — m — s
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INCIDENT REPORT // FILED IN ADVANCE

On August 26, your AI assistant stops answering.

OpenAI is permanently shutting down the Assistants API. Every call to /v1/assistants, /v1/threads and /v1/runs fails — and every Zapier Zap built on ChatGPT Assistants steps stops the same day. Not degraded. Dark.

GUARANTEE If the audit finds zero exposure, you pay nothing — full refund.

DEPRECATION SCHEDULE — OFFICIAL, NOT RUMOR

DATE
WHAT DIES
AUG 26
Assistants API — full removal. Apps, custom chatbots, and all Zapier "ChatGPT (Assistants)" steps fail.
NOV 30
Agent Builder, Evals & dashboard Prompt Objects — shut down. (Migrating to Prompt Objects is a second dead end — most plans miss this.)
DEC 1
Older GPT Image models removed from the API.

Source: OpenAI official deprecations page — verify yourself at developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations

You're exposed if any of these is true

  • [ ✕ ] A freelancer or agency built you a "custom GPT chatbot" in 2023–2025 and you haven't touched the code since.
  • [ ✕ ] Your Zapier account has Zaps using ChatGPT (Assistants) steps — lead replies, support triage, content pipelines.
  • [ ✕ ] You built client workflows in Agent Builder (launched Nov 2025, killed within a year).
  • [ ✕ ] Your codebase contains openai.beta.assistants or openai.beta.threads anywhere.

If you don't know — that's exactly what the audit answers, in writing, within 48 hours.

PROOF — NOT A TEMPLATE

See a real audit before you pay for one.

Here's an actual Break-Check Audit run against a real open-source chatbot platform built on the Assistants API. Nine doomed call sites across five files, conversation history at risk in the database, a migration map, and a fixed quote — exactly what you receive, in your inbox, within 48 hours.

READ THE SAMPLE AUDIT (PDF)

Fixed price. Fixed scope. Before the deadline.

No hourly billing, no retainers. You know the cost before we start.

STEP 1 — DIAGNOSE

Break-Check Audit

$199

  • · Full scan of your code / Zaps / workflows for doomed endpoints
  • · Written report: what breaks, when, and the exact migration path
  • · Fixed migration quote — credited if you proceed
  • · Delivered in 48 hours · zero exposure = full refund
START THE AUDIT

STEP 2A — REPAIR

Zapier Rescue

$299 / up to 5 Zaps

  • · Rebuild Assistants-based Zaps on supported steps
  • · Same behavior, tested end-to-end with you on a call (with me)
  • · 14-day fix-anything guarantee
GET ZAPS FIXED

STEP 2B — MIGRATE

Full Code Migration

$500–1,500

  • · Assistants → Responses + Conversations API
  • · Config kept in your code, not dashboard Prompts (which also die Nov 30)
  • · Conversation history preserved, behavior-parity tests included
  • · Quoted exactly after the audit — no surprises
REQUEST A QUOTE

Payment by PayPal invoice (international) — sent after we scope your audit. No card details entered on this site.

WHO YOU'RE WORKING WITH

Imran & a small migration team

I lead the engagement — scoping and de-risking the migration, the part where most projects go wrong — backed by a small team of developers, architects and analysts who do the code work. You deal with one point of contact (me), not a ticket queue.

This shutdown is a clean, bounded problem: a fixed set of retired endpoints, a known replacement, a hard date. We read your code or your Zaps, tell you in plain language what breaks and when, and hand you a fixed price to fix it — with a parity test log and handover docs your next developer will thank you for. Modern AI-assisted tooling is part of how we turn a 48-hour audit around reliably without inflating the price.

HOW IT RUNS

From email to "resolved"

  1. T-0 You email read access — code, Zapier screenshots, or a screen-share.
  2. T+48h Audit report + fixed quote in your inbox. PayPal invoice for the $199.
  3. T+7d Migration delivered, tested side-by-side against current behavior.
  4. AUG 26 Your app doesn't notice the shutdown. RESOLVED

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