Paperclip
Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies
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What is Paperclip?
Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies
If OpenClaw is an employee, Paperclip is the company
Paperclip is a Node.js server and React UI that orchestrates a team of AI agents to run a business. Bring your own agents, assign goals, and track your agents' work and costs from one dashboard.
It looks like a task manager — but under the hood it has org charts, budgets, governance, goal alignment, and agent coordination.
Manage business goals, not pull requests.
| | Step | Example | | ------ | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 01 | Define the goal | "Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1M MRR." | | 02 | Hire the team | CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any bot, any provider. | | 03 | Approve and run | Review strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard. |
<br/><br/> <div align="center"> <table> <tr> <td align="center"><strong>Works<br/>with</strong></td> <td align="center"><img src="doc/assets/logos/openclaw.svg" width="32" alt="OpenClaw" /><br/><sub>OpenClaw</sub></td> <td align="center"><img src="doc/assets/logos/claude.svg" width="32" alt="Claude" /><br/><sub>Claude Code</sub></td> <td align="center"><img src="doc/assets/logos/codex.svg" width="32" alt="Codex" /><br/><sub>Codex</sub></td> <td align="center"><img src="doc/assets/logos/cursor.svg" width="32" alt="Cursor" /><br/><sub>Cursor</sub></td> <td align="center"><img src="doc/assets/logos/bash.svg" width="32" alt="Bash" /><br/><sub>Bash</sub></td> <td align="center"><img src="doc/assets/logos/http.svg" width="32" alt="HTTP" /><br/><sub>HTTP</sub></td> </tr> </table>COMING SOON: Clipmart — Download and run entire companies with one click. Browse pre-built company templates — full org structures, agent configs, and skills — and import them into your Paperclip instance in seconds.
<em>If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.</em>
</div> <br/>Paperclip is right for you if
- ✅ You want to build autonomous AI companies
- ✅ You coordinate many different agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Claude, Cursor) toward a common goal
- ✅ You have 20 simultaneous Claude Code terminals open and lose track of what everyone is doing
- ✅ You want agents running autonomously 24/7, but still want to audit work and chime in when needed
- ✅ You want to monitor costs and enforce budgets
- ✅ You want a process for managing agents that feels like using a task manager
- ✅ You want to manage your autonomous businesses from your phone
Features
<table> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <h3>🔌 Bring Your Own Agent</h3> Any agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <h3>🎯 Goal Alignment</h3> Every task traces back to the company mission. Agents know <em>what</em> to do and <em>why</em>. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <h3>💓 Heartbeats</h3> Agents wake on a schedule, check work, and act. Delegation flows up and down the org chart. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <h3>💰 Cost Control</h3> Monthly budgets per agent. When they hit the limit, they stop. No runaway costs. </td> <td align="center"> <h3>🏢 Multi-Company</h3> One deployment, many companies. Complete data isolation. One control plane for your portfolio. </td> <td align="center"> <h3>🎫 Ticket System</h3> Every conversation traced. Every decision explained. Full tool-call tracing and immutable audit log. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <h3>🛡️ Governance</h3> You're the board. Approve hires, override strategy, pause or terminate any agent — at any time. </td> <td align="center"> <h3>📊 Org Chart</h3> Hierarchies, roles, reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description. </td> <td align="center"> <h3>📱 Mobile Ready</h3> Monitor and manage your autonomous businesses from anywhere. </td> </tr> </table> <br/>Problems Paperclip solves
| Without Paperclip | With Paperclip | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ❌ You have 20 Claude Code tabs open and can't track which one does what. On reboot you lose everything. | ✅ Tasks are ticket-based, conversations are threaded, sessions persist across reboots. | | ❌ You manually gather context from several places to remind your bot what you're actually doing. | ✅ Context flows from the task up through the project and company goals — your agent always knows what to do and why. | | ❌ Folders of agent configs are disorganized and you're re-inventing task management, communication, and coordination between agents. | ✅ Paperclip gives you org charts, ticketing, delegation, and governance out of the box — so you run a company, not a pile of scripts. | | ❌ Runaway loops waste hundreds of dollars of tokens and max your quota before you even know what happened. | ✅ Cost tracking surfaces token budgets and throttles agents when they're out. Management prioritizes with budgets. | | ❌ You have recurring jobs (customer support, social, reports) and have to remember to manually kick them off. | ✅ Heartbeats handle regular work on a schedule. Management supervises. | | ❌ You have an idea, you have to find your repo, fire up Claude Code, keep a tab open, and babysit it. | ✅ Add a task in Paperclip. Your coding agent works on it until it's done. Management reviews their work. |
<br/>Why Paperclip is special
Paperclip handles the hard orchestration details correctly.
| | | | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Atomic execution. | Task checkout and budget enforcement are atomic, so no double-work and no runaway spend. | | Persistent agent state. | Agents resume the same task context across heartbeats instead of restarting from scratch. | | Runtime skill injection. | Agents can learn Paperclip workflows and project context at runtime, without retraining. | | Governance with rollback. | Approval gates are enforced, config changes are revisioned, and bad changes can be rolled back safely. | | Goal-aware execution. | Tasks carry full goal ancestry so agents consistently see the "why," not just a title. | | Portable company templates. | Export/import orgs, agents, and skills with secret scrubbing and collision handling. | | True multi-company isolation. | Every entity is company-scoped, so one deployment can run many companies with separate data and audit trails. |
<br/>What Paperclip is not
| | | | ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Not a chatbot. | Agents have jobs, not chat windows. | | Not an agent framework. | We don't tell you how to build agents. We tell you how to run a company made of them. | | Not a workflow builder. | No drag-and-drop pipelines. Paperclip models companies — with org charts, goals, budgets, and governance. | | Not a prompt manager. | Agents bring their own prompts, models, and runtimes. Paperclip manages the organization they work in. | | Not a single-agent tool. | This is for teams. If you have one agent, you probably don't need Paperclip. If you have twenty — you definitely do. | | Not a code review tool. | Paperclip orchestrates work, not
