--- title: "Connect Clio to FormAPI - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Matter Status Updated\" fires in Clio, your agent runs \"Add folder\" in FormAPI." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-formapi" --- # Connect Clio to FormAPI When **Matter Status Updated** fires in [Clio](https://apiant.ai/connections/clio), your agent runs **Add folder** in [FormAPI](https://apiant.ai/connections/formapi). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Clio **8** triggers Clio **38** actions FormAPI **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Clio and FormAPI 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) Example flows ## What Clio can start in FormAPI - When **Matter Status Updated** in Clio then **Add folder** in FormAPI - When **New Activity** in Clio then **Generate PDF** in FormAPI 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 Clio and FormAPI ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 48 actions - Trigger **Matter Status Updated** Triggers when the status of a matter has changed. - Trigger **New Activity** Triggers when a new activity is created. - Trigger **New Calendar Entry** Triggers when a new calendar entry is created. - Trigger **New Communication** Triggers when a new communication is created. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created. - Trigger **New Matter** Triggers when a new matter is created. - Trigger **New Task** Triggers when a new task is created. - Trigger **Task Status Updated** Triggers when the status of a task has changed. - Action **Create Calendar Entry** Creates a new calendar entry. - Action **Create Communication** Creates a new communication. - Action **Create Company Contact** Creates a company contact. - Action **Create Expense Entry (Activity)** Creates a new expense entry. - Action **Create Matter** Adds a new matter to Clio Manage. - Action **Create Matter Folder** Creates a new folder in a matter. - Action **Create Matter Note** Creates a new matter note. - Action **Create Person Contact** Creates a person contact. - Action **Create Task** Creates a new task. - Action **Create Time Entry (Activity)** Creates a new time entry. - Action **Delete activity** Delete an activity. - Action **Delete calendar entry** Delete a calendar entry. - Action **Delete contact** Delete a contact. - Action **Delete matter** Delete a matter. - Action **Delete task** Delete a task. - Action **Find Company Contact** Returns the company contacts that match the search text. - Action **Find Matter** Returns the matters that match the specified search text and optional filters - Action **Find Newest Matter by Client Email** Returns the most recently created matter for the client with the given email address. - Action **Find Person Contact** Find a person contact by ID, name, title, email address, address, phone number, web site, instant messenger, custom fields, related matter name, or company name matching a given string. - Action **Find User** Find a user by name. - Action **Get activity** Fetches an activity (time or expense entry) by ID. An error occurs if the activity is not found. - Action **Get calendar entry** Returns one calendar entry by id, including summary, start and end times. - Action **Get communication** Returns one communication by id. - Action **Get contact** Retrieve a contact (person or company) by id. - Action **Get document** Retrieve document metadata by id. - Action **Get matter** Retrieve a matter by id. - Action **Get task** Retrieve a task by id. - Action **List activities** List all activities. - Action **List contacts** List all contacts. - Action **List practice areas** List practice areas. - Action **List tasks** List all tasks. - Action **List users** List firm users. - Action **Update activity** Update an activity. - Action **Update calendar entry** Update a calendar entry. - Action **Update Matter** Update an existing matter. - Action **Update Person Contact** Updates an existing person contact. - Action **Update Task** Updates a task. - Action **Upload Document to Matter** Uploads a file from a URL into a Clio matter's documents and marks it fully uploaded. - Action **Add folder** Creates a new folder in DocSpring for organizing templates. - Action **Delete submission** Expire/delete a PDF submission so it is no longer downloadable. - Action **Generate PDF** Fill a PDF template with field data and generate a submission. - Action **Get combined submission** Checks the status of a combined submission (merged PDFs) and returns its download URL once processed. - Action **Get data request** Look up a submission data request (e.g. an e-signature request) by id. - Action **Get submission** Checks the status of a generated PDF submission and returns its details, including the download URL once processed. - Action **Get template** Looks up a DocSpring PDF template and returns its settings and document processing status. - Action **List folders** Lists the folders in the DocSpring account, optionally only those inside a given parent folder. - Action **Merge PDFs** Merges submission PDFs, template PDFs, custom files, other merged PDFs or PDFs at a URL into one combined PDF. The merge runs asynchronously; use Get combined submission to check when the download URL is ready. - Action **Request signature** Creates a PDF submission from a template and sends one person a request to fill in and sign their fields. The PDF is generated once they complete it. ## Each app on its own - [ **Clio** Clio is a practice management platform that helps lawyers work more efficiently by making it easy to do...](https://apiant.ai/connections/clio) - [ **FormAPI** DocSpring is a service that helps you fill out and sign PDF templates.](https://apiant.ai/connections/formapi) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Clio - [ **Clio to PandaDoc** PandaDoc helps you build and deliver sales quotes and proposals and track presentations and close deals...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-pandadoc) - [ **Clio to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-hubspot) - [ **Clio to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-salesforce) - [ **Clio to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-slack) - [ **Clio to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-google-sheets) - [ **Clio to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-gmail) ## More into FormAPI - [ **Xero to FormAPI** Xero online accounting — manage contacts, invoices, bills, payments, accounts, and bank transactions via the...](https://apiant.ai/connect/xero-to-formapi) - [ **HubSpot to FormAPI** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-formapi) - [ **Salesforce to FormAPI** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-formapi) - [ **Slack to FormAPI** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-formapi) - [ **Google Sheets to FormAPI** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-formapi) - [ **Gmail to FormAPI** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-formapi) Questions ## Clio and FormAPI, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Clio? Any of Clio's 8 triggers in the catalog, including Matter Status Updated, New Activity, New Calendar Entry and New Communication. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in FormAPI when something happens in Clio? Any of FormAPI's 10 actions, including Add folder, Generate PDF, Get combined submission and Get data request. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from FormAPI to Clio? FormAPI has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Clio. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads FormAPI's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Clio or FormAPI? 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 Clio and FormAPI 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.