Description
Paperclip is an app for managing AI agents for work, letting you run a team of agents like a company rather than operating a pile of separate automations. You define a goal, hire a team of agents such as a CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, and marketers from any provider, review the strategy, set budgets, and then run and monitor everything from a dashboard.
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Paperclip is unopinionated about agent runtimes: any agent that can receive a heartbeat can be hired, including Claude Code sessions, OpenClaw bots, Cursor, Codex, Python scripts, shell commands, and HTTP webhooks. It organizes agents into an org chart with hierarchies, roles, and reporting lines, aligns every task back to the company mission for shared context, and runs agents on scheduled heartbeats or notifications so delegation flows up and down the org chart automatically.
Control and accountability are central. Each agent gets a hard monthly budget and auto-pauses at its cap, with a warning at 80%, and costs are tracked per agent, task, project, and goal. Communication happens through structured tickets with full tool-call tracing and an append-only, immutable audit log. As the board of directors, you approve hires and strategy and can pause, reassign, or terminate any agent at any time. Paperclip is MIT-licensed, self-hosted, extensible, and requires no Paperclip account, running locally with an embedded Postgres or against your own database.
- CategoryAI Agent Builders
- Pricing ModelOpen source
- DeploymentSelf-hosted
- PlatformsWeb
Paperclip's Core Features
Manage AI agents like a company with defined goals
Org chart with hierarchies, roles, and reporting lines
Bring your own agent across any runtime or LLM provider
Hard per-agent monthly budgets with auto-pause at the cap
Cost tracking per agent, task, project, and goal
Ticket system with full tool-call tracing
Immutable, append-only audit log
Open source, MIT-licensed, and self-hosted
How to use Paperclip?
Install Paperclip: Run the interactive self-hosted setup locally or in the cloud, with no Paperclip account required.
Define the goal: State the mission you want the agent team to pursue.
Hire the team: Add agents with roles from any provider and connect your existing agents via heartbeats.
Set budgets and approve: Review the strategy, set per-agent budgets, and approve the plan.
Run and govern: Hit go, monitor from the dashboard, and pause, reassign, or terminate agents as needed.
Paperclip's Use Cases
- Autonomous business operations
- Agent orchestration
- AI cost control
- Governance and auditing
- Running parallel ventures
