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Clio Manage MCP connector

The Clio Manage connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent read and update time entries, activity rates, bank accounts and bank transactions in Clio Manage, with each person signed in as themselves and every call logged.

  • How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Clio Manage to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Clio Manage once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Clio Manage.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Supply your own Clio Manage app, then approve. Clio Manage needs an OAuth app you register yourself, so bring its client ID and secret. One person does this once for the organization.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

clio manage
Clio Manage
Affinity
Attio
Clazar
Close
Day AI
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Clio Manage MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Clio Manage MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Clio Manage MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Clio Manage to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Clio Manage through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Attorneys

    Log the time right after the call

    Tell the agent what you just did and for which matter, and a time entry with the right rate lands in Clio Manage before you open the next file.

  • Paralegals

    Tidy time entries before the billing run

    Pull up every entry for a matter, fix the descriptions and durations that are off, and remove the duplicates without clicking through each one.

  • Billing

    Check rates before invoices go out

    Ask which activity rates apply to a client or a timekeeper and update the ones that changed with the new engagement letter.

  • Accounting

    Review bank transactions without leaving your chat

    List yesterday's transactions on the trust and operating accounts, record the ones that are missing, and spot anything that does not match the bank statement.

  • Office management

    Keep activity descriptions consistent across the firm

    See every activity description in use, rename the ones people keep typing differently, and add the standard ones a new practice group needs.

  • Partners

    See where payments were allocated

    Ask how a payment was allocated across bills and matters and get the answer from live Clio Manage records rather than a forwarded screenshot.

Try asking

  • “Log 0.5 hours on the Henderson matter for today's client call”
  • “Show my time entries from this week that are still unbilled”
  • “Which bank transactions posted to the trust account yesterday?”

See all 304 Clio Manage tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Clio Manage

All three can connect Clio Manage to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Clio Manage, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Clio Manage tools Allow or restrict single Clio Manage tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Clio Manage call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Clio Manage tools for your AI agents

304 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Clio Manage, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

Showing 264 of 304 Clio Manage tools here. Connect Clio Manage and call search_tools or tools/list over the MCP endpoint for the complete set.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Clio Manage gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Clio Manage account.

The agent

Ask about your time entries in plain language.

Get answers from live Clio Manage activities, rates and bank transactions, no reports to run.

  • activities
  • activity rates
  • bank accounts
  • bank transactions

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Log 0.5 hours on the Henderson matter for today's client call

Show my time entries from this week that are still unbilled

Which bank transactions posted to the trust account yesterday?

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint connects Clio Manage to every client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Clio Manage through one org endpoint, no SDK, no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

304 Clio Manage tools, no code to write.

Activities, activity rates, allocations, bank accounts and bank transactions, covered out of the box.

  • List all Clio Manage activities
  • Create a Clio Manage activity
  • Get single Clio Manage activity by ID
  • Update a Clio Manage activity by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Clio Manage activities List List Clio Activities: time entries, expense entries, hard/soft cost entries, and fixed fees. Filter by matter, user, task, date range, status, and entry type. Returns type, date, quantity, price, total, and billing state. Max 200 per page.
Create a Clio Manage activity Create Create a new Clio Activity — a TimeEntry, ExpenseEntry, HardCostEntry, SoftCostEntry, or FixedFee. Returns the created record: id, type, date, quantity, price, total, note. Billable entries on matters requiring UTBMS codes must carry them or the call returns 422. Required: data.
Get single Clio Manage activity by ID Get Get a single Clio Activity (time entry, expense entry, or fixed fee) by id. Returns the record's id, type, date, quantity, price, total, note, and its matter and user associations. Required: id.
Update a Clio Manage activity by ID Update Update a single Clio Activity (time entry, expense entry, or fixed fee) by id. Returns the updated record: id, type, date, quantity, price, total, note, non_billable. Billable entries on matters requiring UTBMS codes must carry them or the call returns 422. Required: id, data.
Delete a Clio Manage activity by ID Delete Delete a single Clio Activity (time entry, expense entry, or fixed fee) by id. Returns an empty 204 response on success. Required: id.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Clio Manage toolbox.

Attorneys get time entries, accounting gets bank transactions, each team sees only its toolbox.

  • Attorneys
  • Paralegals
  • Billing
  • Accounting
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Attorneys toolbox

Clio Manage · time entries and expenses

Clio Manage starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Paralegals toolbox

Clio Manage · activity descriptions and corrections

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Billing toolbox

Clio Manage · activity rates and allocations

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Accounting toolbox

Clio Manage · bank accounts and transactions

Clio Manage starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Office management toolbox

Clio Manage · rates and standard descriptions

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Partners toolbox

Clio Manage · allocations and firm totals

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share Clio Manage without sharing a password.

One person connects Clio Manage, teams work through it, nobody else sees a credential.

  • Litigation
  • Family law
  • Billing
  • Accounting
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
CL

Clio Manage (Litigation)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
CL

Clio Manage (Family law)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
CL

Clio Manage (Billing)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
CL

Clio Manage (Accounting)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
CL

Clio Manage (Front office)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
CL

Clio Manage (Partners)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Clio Manage call is on the record.

Who changed which time entry or bank transaction, and when, in an append-only log.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

emily.carter@northwind.io

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

jake.morgan@northwind.io

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

megan.brooks@northwind.io

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

tyler.reed@northwind.io

Clio Manage Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

Clio Manage Activities Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

Clio Manage Activities List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

Unbilled time gets chased on a schedule.

Activities are fetched, grouped by matter, drafted into a digest, approved, then posted to Clio Manage.

Clio Manage digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch activities

    Clio Manage

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Clio Manage

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Clio Manage health, computed without a model.

Activities logged, rates in use and transactions by team, refreshed on a schedule, nobody has to ask.

Clio Manage health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the activities collection

Live

Activities

1,284 ↓ 12%

Activity rates

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Activities created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Litigation 34%

Family law 27%

Billing 21%

Accounting 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Clio Manage to Claude?

Connect Clio Manage in Elaichi first. Clio Manage asks your firm to register an OAuth application inside Clio Manage, so one administrator brings that client ID and secret once, and after that everyone else simply signs in with their own Clio Manage login. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude signs in through Elaichi and Clio Manage is ready to use.

Does Clio Manage work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Clio Manage is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Clio Manage once and every client picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Clio Manage data?

It can log, look up, correct and remove time entries and expenses in Clio Manage, check and change activity rates, keep activity descriptions tidy, and review allocations. It can also list your bank accounts and record or review bank transactions. Short, concrete asks such as "log 0.3 hours on the Patel matter for today's call" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting Clio Manage give the AI access to every matter?

No. The AI works inside the Clio Manage access of the person who signed in, so a paralegal who cannot see a matter in Clio Manage cannot see it through the agent either. Elaichi can narrow that access further for a team or a role, and it never widens it beyond what Clio Manage already allows.

Can my team share one Clio Manage connection?

Yes. One person connects Clio Manage in Elaichi and shares it with a team, and nobody else has to handle the client ID, the secret or any credential. Each teammate still signs in as themselves, so every time entry or transaction they touch is logged under their own name.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Clio Manage?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading time entries and bank transactions while blocking deletes or updates. A restricted action is left out of the tool list the AI client sees, so it cannot be called no matter how the prompt is worded.

What happens to a Clio Manage connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Clio Manage through every AI client at once. A connection they shared with the team keeps working for everyone else. If you want Clio Manage gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client.

Does the Clio Manage MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Clio Manage is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Clio Manage?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Clio Manage. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Clio Manage call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Clio Manage?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Clio Manage: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Clio Manage in front of your team

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Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
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