diff --git a/servant-client/servant-client.cabal b/servant-client/servant-client.cabal
index 452e4d35..8d431765 100644
--- a/servant-client/servant-client.cabal
+++ b/servant-client/servant-client.cabal
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ source-repository head
 library
   exposed-modules:
     Servant.Client
+    Servant.Client.Generic
     Servant.Client.Experimental.Auth
     Servant.Common.BaseUrl
     Servant.Common.BasicAuth
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ library
     , base64-bytestring     >= 1.0.0.1  && < 1.1
     , bytestring            >= 0.10     && < 0.11
     , exceptions            >= 0.8      && < 0.9
+    , generics-sop
     , http-api-data         >= 0.3      && < 0.4
     , http-client           >= 0.4.18.1 && < 0.6
     , http-client-tls       >= 0.2.2    && < 0.4
diff --git a/servant-client/src/Servant/Client/Generic.hs b/servant-client/src/Servant/Client/Generic.hs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..138e769d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/servant-client/src/Servant/Client/Generic.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE DefaultSignatures #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
+module Servant.Client.Generic
+  ( ClientLike(..)
+  , genericMkClient
+  ) where
+
+import Generics.SOP   (Generic, I(..), NP(..), NS(Z), Rep, SOP(..), to)
+import Servant.API    ((:<|>)(..))
+import Servant.Client (ClientM)
+
+-- | This class allows us to match client structure with client functions
+-- produced with 'client' without explicit pattern-matching.
+--
+-- The client structure needs a 'Generics.SOP.Generic' instance.
+--
+-- Example:
+--
+-- type API
+--     = "foo" :> Capture "x" Int :> Get '[JSON] Int
+--  :<|> "bar" :> QueryParam "a" Char :> QueryParam "b" String :> Post '[JSON] [Int]
+--  :<|> Captre "nested" Int :> NestedAPI
+--
+-- type NestedAPI
+--     = Get '[JSON] String
+--  :<|> "baz" :> QueryParam "c" Char :> Post '[JSON] ()
+--
+-- data APIClient = APIClient
+--   { getFoo         :: Int -> Manager -> BaseUrl -> ClientM Int
+--   , postBar        :: Maybe Char -> Maybe String -> Manager -> BaseUrl -> ClientM [Int]
+--   , mkNestedClient :: Int -> NestedClient
+--   } deriving GHC.Generic
+--
+-- instance Generic.SOP.Generic APIClient
+-- instance (Client API ~ client) => ClientLike client APIClient
+--
+-- data NestedClient = NestedClient
+--  { getString :: Manager -> BaseUrl -> ClientM String
+--  , postBaz   :: Maybe Char -> Manager -> BaseUrl -> ClientM ()
+--  } deriving GHC.Generic
+--
+-- instance Generic.SOP.Generic
+-- instance (Client NestedAPI ~ client) => ClientLike client NestedAPI
+--
+-- mkAPIClient :: APIClient
+-- mkAPIClient = mkClient (client (Proxy :: Proxy API))
+class ClientLike client custom where
+  mkClient :: client -> custom
+  default mkClient :: (Generic custom, GClientLikeP client xs, SOP I '[xs] ~ Rep custom)
+    => client -> custom
+  mkClient = genericMkClient
+
+instance ClientLike client custom
+      => ClientLike (a -> client) (a -> custom) where
+  mkClient c = mkClient . c
+
+instance ClientLike (ClientM a) (ClientM a) where
+  mkClient = id
+
+-- | This class is used to match client functions to the
+-- representation of client structure type as sum of products
+-- and basically does all the internal job to build this structure.
+class GClientLikeP client xs where
+  gMkClientP :: client -> NP I xs
+
+instance (GClientLikeP b (y ': xs), ClientLike a x)
+      => GClientLikeP (a :<|> b) (x ': y ': xs) where
+  gMkClientP (a :<|> b) = I (mkClient a) :* gMkClientP b
+
+instance ClientLike a x => GClientLikeP a '[x] where
+  gMkClientP a = I (mkClient a) :* Nil
+
+-- | Generate client structure from client type.
+genericMkClient :: (Generic custom, GClientLikeP client xs, SOP I '[xs] ~ Rep custom)
+  => client -> custom
+genericMkClient = to . SOP . Z . gMkClientP
+