
Clio
· #169 most-usedEvery matter tracked. Every hour billed. Every deadline met.
Clio is legal practice-management software built for law firms: it centralises matters, contacts, time entries, expenses, documents, and invoices in one system. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can open matters, log billable time, upload court filings, route client communications, and react to billing events — all without an attorney touching the keyboard. From intake to final invoice, the legal workflow runs itself.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual hand-off between intake, matter creation, task assignment, and time entry that consumes paralegal hours every day.
What your Clio agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Clio × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
New client matter, fully live in 90 seconds
When a client email arrives requesting representation and you confirm it, your agent searches Clio for the client contact, opens the matter with billing configured, creates the standard document folder tree, and drops a kickoff calendar entry — then pings the team in Slack with the matter number and client summary. The client gets a welcome email before anyone touches the file. Every intake step that used to take 20 minutes of paralegal time happens before the attorney finishes reading the email.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales21 min / weekIntake-to-matter admin
Paralegal manually creates the Clio matter, sets up folders, and assigns tasks after each new client call — taking 20 minutes per intake.
Sales Agent0 minAgent opens the matter on confirmationThe moment the engagement email arrives, the agent creates the contact, opens the matter, assigns the task template, and sends the welcome email in under 90 seconds.
- Marketing15 min / weekReferral tracking gaps
Referral sources and conversion rates are tracked in a spreadsheet that's days behind because no one updates it consistently after opening matters.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent logs every referral on matter openWhen a matter opens, the agent reads the referral source from the intake and writes it to the conversion tracker in real time — zero manual reconciliation.
- Customer Support21 min / weekClient communication logging
Attorneys manually log calls and emails as Clio communications after every client interaction, often at end of day when details are already fuzzy.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent logs communications as they happenThe agent reads incoming emails and call summaries and creates Clio communication records immediately, with the full transcript in the notes field.
- Human Resources8 min / weekMatter reassignment on departures
When an attorney leaves, the firm manually updates every open matter in Clio to reassign tasks, billing responsibility, and calendar entries to the replacement.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent batch-reassigns all mattersThe agent finds every matter owned by the departing attorney in Clio and reassigns tasks and billing to the designated replacement in a single automated run.
- Finance15 min / weekEnd-of-month billing reconciliation
Finance manually cross-references Clio time entries with the accounting system each billing cycle to ensure every hour is captured and nothing is billed twice.
Finance Agent0 minAgent syncs billing data on invoice creationWhen a Clio bill is created, the agent exports the line items to the accounting system and updates the monthly tracker automatically — no manual reconciliation.
- Operations33 min / weekMatter status reporting
Operations manually pulls matter status reports from Clio each week to compile the firm's pipeline view, copying data into a spreadsheet for the partners.
Operations Agent0 minAgent updates dashboards on status changeWhen any matter status changes in Clio, the agent updates the operations dashboard and Notion pipeline view instantly, so the partners see a live snapshot without a weekly manual pull.
- Legal7 min / weekPost-hearing task setup
Attorneys manually create preparation tasks in Clio after each court date is set, often hours or days later when calendar time is available.
Legal Agent0 minAgent cascades tasks on hearing creationThe moment a new Clio calendar entry is created for a hearing, the agent creates the full preparation task list with deadlines calculated backward from the court date.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Clio's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Clio into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
The fastest path. Install Clio's MCP server in one click; the agent reaches your matters, contacts, and time entries through a permissioned OAuth handshake scoped to your Clio workspace. No API keys to rotate.
Find Clio in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.
You'll be redirected to Clio's OAuth consent screen — sign in with your Clio account and grant Actionist access to your workspace. Choose the firm and permission scope, then confirm.
Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.
27 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
10 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
Skills that pair with Clio
Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.
MCP servers that work with Clio
Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.
Official MCP server for Clio Manage and Clio Grow, built by Advocate Cloud Solutions — gives the agent direct access to matters, contacts, time entries, and billing.
MCP server for fetching and analyzing BP5 scientific data files using the ADIOS2 framework — part of the CLIO HPC data infrastructure project.
MCP server that exposes ArXiv paper search and retrieval — part of the CLIO scientific computing MCP ecosystem from the IOWarp project.