diff --git a/services/clsi/README.md b/services/clsi/README.md
index 5ae02a866d..02cd0a470f 100644
--- a/services/clsi/README.md
+++ b/services/clsi/README.md
@@ -89,6 +89,12 @@ The CLSI is based on a JSON API.
 }
 ```
 
+With `curl`, if you place the above json in a file called `data.json`, the request would look like this:
+
+``` shell
+$ curl -X POST -d @data.json localhost:3013/project/<id>/compile
+```
+
 You can specify any project-id in the URL, and the files and LaTeX environment will be persisted between requests.
 URLs will be downloaded and cached until provided with a more recent modified date.