Paperclip is the app people use
to manage AI agents for work.
Open source. Self-hosted. Interactive setup walks you through database, auth, and starting your first agent team.
I've never seen an agent orchestration system that operates across all business functions And, neither have I seen one that has been built with great taste i.e. design and UX quality like Linear etc Paperclip seems to be special - no agent tie in either
Great for orchestrating a bunch of agents to do dev, content, social, marketing, qa, research, outreach, and anything else for an autonomous biz.
Been using it and works great!
When I first started playing with openclaw this was the vision I had for where you could take Agents. Started to build my own, but it's nowhere near as polished as this. Everyone should go try Paperclip right now.
Ok this blows everything out of the water! This is gonna be the interface of the future!
OpenClaw is an employee, Paperclip is the company.
This is awesome! This replaces my mission control
been checking out Paperclip and it's pretty simple: it's a tool to organize and run work with AI agents instead of a bunch of separate automations it gives you org chart, goals, tasks, budgets and agent templates all in one place so you're not wiring everything from scratch
Just what I was looking for
The framing here is what makes this interesting. Not "here is an AI tool." CEO hires a Coder. You approve it. The mental model is a company you are running, not a tool you are using. The shift from "I am prompting an AI" to "I am managing a team" changes how you think about what
The rise of autonomous companies is inevitable. I tested Paperclip today and it blew my mind. I suggest giving it a spin.
"Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1mm ARR."
CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any agent, any provider.
Review the CEO's strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard.
Any agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.
Hierarchies, roles, reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description.
Every task traces back to the mission. Agents know what to do and why.
Monthly budgets per agent. When they hit the limit, they stop. No runaway costs.
Every conversation traced. Every decision explained. Full tool-call tracing and audit log.
You're in charge. Approve hires, override strategy, pause or terminate any agent at any time.
Your Claude, Cursor, and Codex, organized under one org structure, pointed at one goal. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.
Every piece of work is given context that traces back to the company mission. Your agents will know what to do and why.
Paperclip's SKILL.md means your agents know how to
discover the context they need.
Every agent gets a monthly budget. When they hit it, they stop. Automatically. No runaway costs. No surprise bills. Hard limits, enforced by the system.
Track costs per agent, per task, per project, per goal. See which agents are expensive, which tasks burn tokens, which projects are over budget.
You communicate with agents through tickets. Every instruction, every response, every tool call and decision is recorded with full tracing. Nothing happens in the dark.
Deploy the updated pricing page to production. Run tests first.
Running test suite and staging deployment now. I'll promote to production once smoke tests pass.
Approved. Go ahead.
Paperclip is built to be extended. Add capabilities through extensions, adapt it to your stack, and own every line of the code that runs your AI workforce.
Drop-in extensions add new capabilities without touching core code.
Works with any LLM provider, any tool stack, any deployment target.
MIT-licensed. Fork it, audit it, contribute back.
Approve hires. Approve strategy. Override anything.
You operate as the board of directors. Agents can't hire new agents without your approval.
The CEO can't execute a strategy you haven't reviewed. You can pause any agent, reassign
any task, adjust any budget — at any time.
You have full control over every agent in the org. Autonomy is a privilege you grant,
not a default.
Pause. Resume. Override. Reassign. Terminate.
Paperclip uses those agents. It orchestrates them into a team — with org charts, budgets, goals, governance, and accountability.
Yes. Paperclip is unopinionated about agent runtimes. Your agents can be Claude Code sessions, OpenClaw bots, Python scripts, shell commands, HTTP webhooks — anything that can receive a heartbeat signal. Adapters connect Paperclip to whatever execution environment you use.
At 100% budget utilization the agent auto-pauses and new tasks are blocked. You get a soft warning at 80%. As the board, you can override the limit at any time and resume the agent.
Paperclip has governance and control modules for what your agents can do to modify Paperclip — for example, hiring new agents is gated by Board approval by default. However, your agents are your own and you secure them however you want to.
By default, Paperclip runs your agents on scheduled heartbeats and/or notifications like being assigned a task or @-mentioned. But your agent is your own — you're free to hook a continuous agent like OpenClaw into Paperclip.
Agent orchestration has subtleties in how you coordinate who has work checked out, how to maintain sessions, monitoring costs, establishing governance — Paperclip does this for you. Bring-your-own-ticket-system is on the roadmap.
You can run Paperclip as a local instance or a remote deploy. Locally, a single Node.js process automatically sets up and maintains an embedded Postgres and data in local files. When you're ready for the cloud, Paperclip makes that easy too — your agents can help using Paperclip's provided SKILL.md. Then you configure Projects (groups of work) and Agents (which define what platform does the work and how). You set up tasks and the agents take care of the rest.
Yes. A single Paperclip deployment can run dozens of companies with complete data isolation between them. Useful for running separate ventures, testing strategies in parallel, or templating org configs for reuse.
Yes. MIT licensed, self-hosted, no Paperclip account required. Interactive setup walks you through database configuration and creating your first agent team. Run it locally with the embedded database or point it at your own Postgres.
Open source. Self-hosted. Interactive setup walks you through installation and first agent team. No Paperclip account required. No agents installed automatically.