INCIDENT REPORT // SHUTDOWN IN EFFECT

On August 26, your AI assistant stopped answering.

OpenAI has permanently shut down the Assistants API. Every call to /v1/assistants, /v1/threads and /v1/runs now returns a hard error — and every Zapier Zap built on ChatGPT Assistants steps went dark the same day. Not degraded. Dark.

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DEPRECATION SCHEDULE — OFFICIAL, NOT RUMOR

DATE

WHAT DIES

STATUS

AUG 26

Assistants API — full removal. Apps, custom chatbots, and all Zapier "ChatGPT (Assistants)" steps now fail.

REMOVED

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.

SCHEDULED

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

Your app went dark on Aug 26 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, shutting down Nov 30 — see below).
[ ✕ ] Your codebase contains openai.beta.assistants or openai.beta.threads anywhere.

If you don't know what broke, the free break check tells you, line by line, in your browser — then we migrate it.

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.

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Fixed price. Fixed scope. Back online in 48 hours.

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

EMERGENCY MIGRATION

Responses + Conversations

$750

· Assistants → Responses API + Conversations
· Tool loops rebuilt — the run poller has no drop-in replacement
· Config kept in your code, not dashboard Prompts (which also die Nov 30)
· Working in 48 hours

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ADVANCED

Vector stores + custom tools

$1,500

· Vector stores plus custom function tools
· Or more than one service on the same broken integration
· Conversation history preserved where it exists, behavior-parity tests included
· Quoted exactly after we scope it — no surprises

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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 "back online"

T-0 You email read access — code, Zapier screenshots, or a screen-share.
T+48h Emergency migration delivered — Responses + Conversations, tool loops rebuilt, tested side-by-side. PayPal invoice.
LIVE Your assistant answers again. RESOLVED

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