A colleague had this error occur while setting up a production system. Everything had been fine in development, but Dependency Injection seemed to be throwing a wobbly when it tried to load the service we’d written for adding/removing contacts from a subscription list.
Edit: I raised this problem with Sitecore and got a helpful response: https://andrewwburns.com/2018/08/17/avoiding-the-iclientapiservice/
