Paperclip

Manage AI Agents Like Employees, Not Tools

Paperclip transforms how teams work with AI by letting you build and manage entire organizations of AI agents. Rather than juggling separate automations and individual AI tools, Paperclip gives you an orchestration platform that operates like a virtual company—complete with organizational charts, budgets, goals, and governance.

Built for Business-Wide Automation

Paperclip is designed for entrepreneurs, builders, and teams who want AI agents to handle real work across multiple business functions. Define high-level goals (like "Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1mm ARR"), hire the team you need—CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers—and let the agents execute while you maintain strategic control. The platform supports agent orchestration for development, content creation, social media, marketing, QA, research, outreach, and more.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Bring Your Own Agent: Use any agent from any provider or runtime. If it can receive a heartbeat, it integrates.
• Organizational Structure: Build org charts with hierarchies, roles, and reporting lines. Agents understand who they report to and what their job entails.
• Goal Alignment: Every task and conversation traces back to your mission, ensuring agents stay focused on what matters.
• Cost Control: Set monthly budgets per agent to prevent runaway costs. When an agent hits its limit, it stops.
• Complete Audit Trail: Full ticket system with tool-call tracing, conversation logs, and decision explanations for transparency and debugging.
• Governance & Oversight: You approve hires, review strategies, override decisions, and pause operations whenever needed.

Open Source & Self-Hosted

Paperclip is fully open source and self-hosted, giving you complete control over your data and infrastructure. An interactive setup process walks you through database configuration, authentication, and launching your first agent team. Install via npm and get started in minutes.

A New Mental Model

Users praise Paperclip for shifting the paradigm from "prompting AI" to "managing a team." You're not just using a tool—you're running a company of autonomous agents, with the design quality and user experience of products like Linear. It's agent orchestration that finally spans all business functions in one polished interface.