Claris Studio discontinued. Long live Klai Studio!

You built something in Claris Studio. Maybe it's a single customer-facing view, maybe it's a small internal tool, maybe it's a project that's been quietly running your intake process for two years. Now Claris has told you the platform underneath it is going away — and you're staring at a deadline wondering how much of that work you're about to lose.

This article answers the practical question every Claris Studio user is now asking: what actually happens on March 15, 2027, and what's the least painful way to keep what you built running afterward?

What did Claris actually announce?

Claris has confirmed that Claris Studio will be discontinued on March 15, 2027. After that date, the platform will no longer be supported, hosted, or maintained by Claris.

That doesn't mean your app disappears the day before the deadline. It means the ground it's standing on is being removed on a fixed schedule, and anything still running on Claris Studio after that date is running on borrowed time — no security patches, no bug fixes, no guaranteed uptime, and no vendor to call when something breaks.

If you're a business owner or IT manager, the real risk isn't the shutdown date itself. It's the six months before it, when teams either scramble under pressure or — worse — don't notice the deadline until a client-facing view goes dark.

Why does this matter if it's "just a view" or a small tool?

It's tempting to underestimate a Claris Studio project because it looks small on the surface. But small tools tend to sit at surprisingly important points in a business:

• A customer-facing status view that a client checks every morning to see order progress.
• An internal intake form that feeds directly into a warehouse or fulfillment process.
• A branded portal that partners use to submit requests without emailing your team.

None of these look like "critical infrastructure" until they stop working. If your Claris Studio project touches a customer, a partner, or a daily internal workflow, treat this deadline the same way you'd treat any other end-of-life software notice: as something to plan for now, not something to react to later.

Do you have to rebuild everything from scratch?

No — and this is the part most teams get wrong. The instinct when a platform is discontinued is to assume the only path forward is a full rebuild: new requirements, new vendor selection, new development cycle, months of downtime risk.

That's rarely necessary. What Claris Studio actually gave you was a workflow — a screen, a set of fields, a logic for what happens when someone submits data. That workflow doesn't have to be thrown away just because the platform hosting it is retiring. It has to be moved.

This is exactly the gap Klai Studio is built to close. Klai Studio takes the workflow you already validated — the one your team or your customers already know how to use — and rebuilds it as a customer-branded FileMaker web app, without asking you to redo the thinking that went into designing it in the first place.

[[IMAGE:left|old platform sunset with a workflow migrating unchanged into a new app]]

What does moving from Claris Studio to Klai Studio actually involve?

Here's the practical, no-fluff version of what's needed:

1. Send one artifact. A single view, a shareable link, or even a screenshot of the screen your team or customers currently use.
2. We reconstruct the workflow. Not a generic replacement — the same fields, the same steps, the same logic, rebuilt in Klai Studio.
3. You get a customer-branded web app. Your logo, your colors, your domain feel — not a visibly "migrated" tool that looks foreign to the people who use it daily.
4. No infrastructure to manage. No Git repositories to maintain, no separate hosting to provision, no SSL certificates to renew, no staging/production environments to keep in sync, and no custom web stack (no React app, no Node backend, no DevOps pipeline) for your IT team to own.

That last point is worth sitting on for a second, because it's usually the actual dealbreaker for small IT teams: a full custom web rebuild often quietly turns into a permanent maintenance job. Klai Studio is deliberately built so that a FileMaker-based web app doesn't come with that tail of ongoing DevOps work attached.

What if you don't know exactly what's in your Claris Studio project?

This is more common than people admit — the person who built the original view left the company, or it was set up by a contractor two years ago and nobody has touched the config since. You don't need full documentation to start.

A screenshot of the running screen is enough to begin the conversation. From there, the actual fields, logic, and data structure can be reverse-engineered from the live view or a short walkthrough call — the same way any experienced developer would approach inheriting an undocumented system.

How urgent is this really — should you wait until closer to the deadline?

Waiting has a hidden cost that's easy to underestimate: migration work always takes longer than the calendar suggests once you factor in testing, user acceptance, and the inevitable "wait, it also needs to do this" discovery that comes up during any rebuild.

A rough, realistic planning checklist:

• Now – 12 months out: Inventory every Claris Studio app, view, and project still in active use. Note who depends on each one (internal staff, customers, partners).
• 9–6 months out: Start migrating the highest-risk items first — anything customer-facing or tied to revenue.
• 6–3 months out: Migrate remaining internal tools; run both systems in parallel briefly if the workflow is critical.
• 3–0 months out: Final testing, user communication, and cutover. Avoid doing this in the final weeks before March 15, 2027.

The teams that end up with a bad experience are almost always the ones who treated this like a distant deadline until it wasn't.

FAQ

Is Claris Studio being replaced by Claris themselves? Claris has announced the discontinuation date but the decision of what to migrate to is left to each customer. Klai Studio is one path — built specifically to carry over existing Claris Studio workflows into a FileMaker-based web app.

Will my data be lost when Claris Studio shuts down? Only if it's not exported or migrated beforehand. Treat the shutdown date as a hard deadline for having your data and workflow living somewhere else — not as a date to start looking for options.

Do I need to know FileMaker to use a Klai Studio app afterward? No. The end result is a web app your team or customers use through a browser, branded to your business. The FileMaker layer runs behind the scenes.

What if I have multiple Claris Studio projects, not just one? Send one view or link per project to start. Each one can be assessed and migrated independently, so you don't have to solve everything at once.

Is this only for customer-facing views, or internal tools too? Both. The same migration approach works whether the workflow is client-facing, partner-facing, or purely internal.

Checklist: are you ready for the Claris Studio shutdown?

• You have a list of every active Claris Studio app, view, or project.
• You know who uses each one (customers, partners, staff) and how often.
• You've identified which ones are business-critical vs. nice-to-have.
• You have at least one screenshot, link, or export per project saved outside Claris Studio.
• You have a rough migration order and timeline that ends well before March 15, 2027.

If your business is running any part of its daily work through a Claris Studio app, view, or project, the shutdown date is a fixed point you can plan around rather than a fire to fight later. Loggix has experience turning exactly this kind of situation — an undocumented view, an aging platform, a deadline set by someone else — into a stable, custom-branded FileMaker web app through Klai Studio, and can also help map out the broader modernization path if the migration touches other systems, integrations, or AI-driven workflows worth adding along the way.