--- title: "Connect Cliniko and OpenAI - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New or updated individual appointment\" fires in Cliniko, your agent runs \"Create message\" in OpenAI." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-openai" --- # Connect Cliniko and OpenAI When **New or updated individual appointment** fires in [Cliniko](https://apiant.ai/connections/cliniko), your agent runs **Create message** in [OpenAI](https://apiant.ai/connections/openai), or **New file** in OpenAI to **Find patient by email** in Cliniko. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Cliniko **17** triggers Cliniko **36** actions OpenAI **5** triggers OpenAI **69** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Cliniko and OpenAI to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Connecting OpenAI and Cliniko lets clinic records drive model work and lets model output land back on the right patient. Appointment, patient and treatment note changes in Cliniko can be sent to OpenAI for a summary, an embedding or a drafted message, and results can be written to a Cliniko patient custom field. New files or videos in OpenAI can be matched to a Cliniko patient. Example flows ## What Cliniko and OpenAI can do together ### From Cliniko to OpenAI - When **New or updated individual appointment** in Cliniko then **Create message** in OpenAI - When **New or updated treatment notes** in Cliniko then **Create embedding** in OpenAI ### From OpenAI to Cliniko - When **New file** in OpenAI then **Find patient by email** in Cliniko - When **New batch** in OpenAI then **Create contact** in Cliniko Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Cliniko and OpenAI ## Triggers and actions 22 triggers · 105 actions - Trigger **Cancelled individual appointment** Triggered when an individual appointment is cancelled. - Trigger **New cancelled attendee** Triggered when an attendee is cancelled. - Trigger **New or updated attendee** Triggered when an attendee is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated business** Triggered when a business is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated communication** Triggered when a communication is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated contact** Triggered when a contact is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated daily availability** Triggered when a daily availability is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated group appointment** Triggered when a group appointment is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated individual appointment** Triggered when an individual appointment is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated invoice** Triggered when an invoice is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated patient** Triggered when a patient is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated patient case** Triggered when a patient case is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated practitioner** Triggered when a practitioner is created or updated. - Trigger **New or updated treatment notes** Triggered when treatment notes is created or updated. - Trigger **Patient added or removed for group appointment in date range** Triggered when a patient is added or removed for a group appointment within the specified date range. - Trigger **Two-way sync new or updated contacts** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated contacts, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping. Can only be used with enhanced two-way sync actions that support on-the-fly mapping. - Trigger **Two-way sync new or updated patients** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated patients, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping. Can only be used with enhanced two-way sync actions that support on-the-fly mapping. - Action **Archive patient** Archives a patient. An error will occur if the patient is not found. - Action **Create contact** Creates a new contact. - Action **Create patient** Creates a new patient. - Action **Find Appointment by Patient Id** Returns appointment details for the specified patient if the Patient ID exists. - Action **Find cancelled appointment** Searches for a cancelled appointment. If no matching appointment is found, an error occurs. - Action **Find contact by email** Returns details of the contact having the specified email address. An error occurs if zero or multiple are found. - Action **Find patient by email** Returns details of the patient having the specified email address. An error occurs if zero or multiple are found. - Action **Find Patient by Email and Date of Birth** Finds the single active patient whose email and date of birth both match, returning the patient ID and the match count. - Action **Get appointment** Returns details of the specified appointment. - Action **Get appointments by practitioner ID** Returns appointment details by practitioner ID. - Action **Get appointment type** Returns details of the specified appointment type. - Action **Get appointment type billable item** Returns details for a billable item. - Action **Get billable item** Returns details of the specified billable item. - Action **Get business** Returns details of the specified business. - Action **Get cancelled appointment** Returns details of the specified cancelled appointment. - Action **Get contact** Returns details of the specified contact. - Action **Get group appointment** Returns details of the specified group appointment. - Action **Get group appointment attendees** Returns attendee information for the specified group appointment. - Action **Get individual appointment attendees** Returns attendee information for the specified individual appointment. - Action **Get invoice** Returns details of the specified invoice. - Action **Get patient** Returns details of the specified patient. - Action **Get patient attachment** Returns a patient attachment from Cliniko, including its filename, file type and description. - Action **Get patient case** Returns details of the specified patient case. - Action **Get patient referral source** Returns the referral source for the specified patient. - Action **Get practitioner** Returns details of the specified practitioner. An error occurs if not found. - Action **Get practitioner availabilities** Returns availability information for the specified practitioner. - Action **List Appointments in Date Range** Returns every individual appointment that starts within a given time window, with the total count. - Action **List invoices for patient case** Emits all invoice IDs for the specified patient case. - Action **List Patients** Returns Cliniko patients, optionally filtered (e.g. updated after a date) and sorted, with the total count. - Action **Two-way sync add or update a contact** An action for two-way syncing new and updated contacts, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping using contact email addresses for matching. Can only be used with enhanced two-way sync triggers that support on-the-fly mapping. - Action **Two-way sync add or update a patient** An action for two-way syncing new and updated patients, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping using patient email addresses for matching. Can only be used with enhanced two-way sync triggers that support on-the-fly mapping. - Action **Update contact** Updates a contact. - Action **Update patient** Updates a patient. - Action **Update patient custom field** Updates the value of the specified custom field for the specified patient. - Action **Update patient referral** Sets or changes a patient's referral source. Choose the referral source type; supply a Referrer ID only for types that take one (e.g. Patient or Contact). - Action **Upload patient attachment** Uploads a file, such as a PDF, to a patient's record in Cliniko as an attachment. - Trigger **New batch** List your organization's batches. - Trigger **New file** Returns a list of files. - Trigger **New model** Lists the currently available models. - Trigger **New vector store** Returns a list of vector stores. - Trigger **New video** List recently generated videos for the current project. - Action **Cancel batch** Cancels an in-progress batch. - Action **Cancel run** Cancels a run that is in_progress. - Action **Cancel vector store file batch** Cancel a vector store file batch. - Action **Content moderation** Classifies text for hate, harassment, self-harm, sexual, and violence categories using the Moderations API. - Action **Count input tokens** Returns input token counts of the request. - Action **Create assistant** Create an assistant with a model and instructions. - Action **Create chat completion** Sends a list of chat messages to a model via the Chat Completions API and returns the assistant's reply. - Action **Create completion** Creates a completion for the provided prompt and parameters. - Action **Create embedding** Generates a vector embedding for input text using an embeddings model (e.g. text-embedding-3-small). - Action **Create message** Create a message. - Action **Create run** Create a run. - Action **Creates and executes a batch from an uploaded file of requests** Creates and executes a batch from an uploaded file of requests - Action **Create thread** Create a thread. - Action **Create thread and run** Create a thread and run it in one request. - Action **Create vector store** Create a vector store. - Action **Create vector store file** Create a vector store file by attaching a File to a vector store. - Action **Create vector store file batch** Create a vector store file batch. - Action **Create video edit job** Create a new video generation job by editing a source or existing generated video. - Action **Create video extension** Create an extension of a completed video. - Action **Create video generation job** Create a new video generation job from a prompt and optional reference assets. - Action **Create video remix** Create a remix of a completed video using a refreshed prompt. - Action **Delete assistant** Delete an assistant. - Action **Delete eval run** Delete an eval run. - Action **Delete file** Delete a file and remove it from all vector stores. - Action **Delete message** Deletes a message. - Action **Delete thread** Delete a thread. - Action **Delete vector store** Delete a vector store. - Action **Delete vector store file** Delete a vector store file (removes from store, file itself not deleted). - Action **Delete video** Permanently delete a completed or failed video and its stored assets. - Action **Download video content** Download the generated video bytes or a derived preview asset. - Action **Edit image** Creates an edited or extended image given one or more source images and a prompt. - Action **Generate image** Generates an image from a text prompt using gpt-image-1 / DALL-E and returns the image URL or base64 data. - Action **Generate speech** Converts text into spoken audio using a TTS model and the selected voice. Returns audio bytes. - Action **Get assistant** Retrieves an assistant. - Action **Get batch** Retrieves a batch. - Action **Get file** Returns information about a specific file. - Action **Get file content** Returns the contents of the specified file. - Action **Get message** Retrieve a message. - Action **Get model** Retrieves a model instance. - Action **Get run** Retrieves a run. - Action **Get run step** Retrieves a run step. - Action **Get thread** Retrieves a thread. - Action **Get vector store** Retrieves a vector store. - Action **Get vector store file** Retrieves a vector store file. - Action **Get vector store file batch** Retrieves a vector store file batch. - Action **Get vector store file content** Retrieve the parsed contents of a vector store file. - Action **Get video** Fetch the latest metadata for a generated video. - Action **List conversation items** List all items for a conversation with the given ID. - Action **List files** Lists files that have been uploaded to your OpenAI account. - Action **List messages** Returns a list of messages for a given thread. - Action **List models** Lists the models currently available to your account. - Action **List runs** Returns a list of runs belonging to a thread. - Action **List run steps** Returns a list of run steps belonging to a run. - Action **List vector store file batch files** Returns a list of vector store files in a batch. - Action **List vector store files** Returns a list of vector store files. - Action **OpenAI agent message** Runs one AI agent turn on OpenAI and returns the model's reply. The turn is billed to the OpenAI account connected on this step, and the agent can call the account's AI tool automations. - Action **Retrieve response** Retrieves a previously created model response by its Response ID. - Action **Search vector store** Search a vector store for relevant chunks based on a query and filter. - Action **Send model a message** Sends a message to an OpenAI model via the Responses API and emits its response. Returns a Response ID usable as previous_response_id for multi-turn conversations. - Action **Submit tool outputs to run** Submit tool outputs when a run requires action. - Action **Transcribe audio** Transcribes audio into the input language. - Action **Translate audio** Translates audio into English. - Action **Update assistant** Modifies an assistant. - Action **Update message** Modifies a message. - Action **Update run** Modifies a run. - Action **Update thread** Modifies a thread. - Action **Update vector store** Modifies a vector store. - Action **Update vector store file attributes** Update attributes on a vector store file. - Action **Upload file** Upload a file that can be used across various endpoints. ## Each app on its own - [ **Cliniko** Cliniko is a practice management platform — manage patients, appointments, invoices, contacts, and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/cliniko) - [ **OpenAI** OpenAI's platform for text generation (Responses + Chat Completions), image generation (gpt-image-1 /...](https://apiant.ai/connections/openai) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Cliniko - [ **Cliniko to JIRA** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-jira) - [ **Cliniko to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-zoom) - [ **Cliniko to SendGrid** SendGrid by Twilio — email delivery and marketing platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-sendgrid) - [ **Cliniko to Intercom** Intercom is a customer communications platform for support, engagement, and marketing.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-intercom) - [ **Cliniko to Freshdesk** Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer support and helpdesk platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-freshdesk) - [ **Cliniko to Klaviyo** Klaviyo is a marketing automation platform for email and SMS.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-klaviyo) ## More into OpenAI - [ **Mailchimp to OpenAI** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-openai) - [ **ActiveCampaign to OpenAI** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-openai) - [ **Asana to OpenAI** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-openai) - [ **JIRA to OpenAI** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/jira-to-openai) - [ **Twilio to OpenAI** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/twilio-to-openai) - [ **Intercom to OpenAI** Intercom is a customer communications platform for support, engagement, and marketing.](https://apiant.ai/connect/intercom-to-openai) Questions ## Cliniko and OpenAI, answered ### ### Can text written by OpenAI end up on the patient record in Cliniko? Yes. Use an OpenAI action such as Send model a message or Create chat completion, then pass the reply into the Cliniko action Update patient custom field or Update patient. The agent tests each scenario before it goes live, including the case where the patient lookup returns nothing. ### ### What can start a run on the Cliniko side? Cliniko triggers include New or updated individual appointment, New or updated patient, New or updated treatment notes and Cancelled individual appointment. Any of these can lead into OpenAI actions like Create embedding, Content moderation or Create chat completion. ### ### What can start an automation from Cliniko? Any of Cliniko's 17 triggers in the catalog, including New or updated individual appointment, New or updated treatment notes, New cancelled attendee and New or updated attendee. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in OpenAI when something happens in Cliniko? Any of OpenAI's 69 actions, including Create embedding, Create assistant, Create chat completion and Create completion. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from OpenAI to Cliniko? Yes. When something happens in OpenAI, your agent can act in Cliniko too. This page covers both directions: OpenAI's triggers and Cliniko's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Cliniko or OpenAI? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Cliniko and OpenAI without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.