paperclipai / paperclip

Quickstart · Docs · GitHub · Discord 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. | > **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. Works with OpenClaw Claude Code Codex Cursor Bash HTTP If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. 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 🔌 Bring Your Own Agent Any agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. 🎯 Goal Alignment Every task traces back to the company mission. Agents know what to do and why . 💓 Heartbeats Agents wake on a schedule, check work, and act. Delegation flows up and down the org chart. 💰 Cost Control Monthly budgets per agent. When they hit the limit, they stop. No runaway costs. 🏢 Multi-Company One deployment, many companies. Complete data isolation. One control plane for your portfolio. 🎫 Ticket System Every conversation traced. Every decision explained. Full tool-call tracing and immutable audit log. 🛡️ Governance You're the board. Approve hires, override strategy, pause or terminate any agent — at any time. 📊 Org Chart Hierarchies, roles, reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description. 📱 Mobile Ready Monitor and manage your autonomous businesses from anywhere. 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. | 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. | 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…