Paperclip
Paperclip is an open-source, self-hosted platform that organizes AI agents into a company-like hierarchy with org charts, roles, budgets, and governance controls. Users define business goals, "hire" agents from providers like OpenClaw or Claude Code, and monitor work and costs from a single dashboard. The platform is MIT-licensed and requires no Paperclip account, with a Node.js server and React UI.
- AI Agents
- Artificial Intelligence
- Enterprise Software
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Businesses increasingly rely on multiple AI agents for various tasks, but these agents often operate in isolation with no unified system for coordination, goal alignment, budget tracking, or governance. Managing numerous autonomous agents across different platforms and providers becomes fragmented and unmanageable without a central orchestration layer.
Solution
Paperclip provides a self-hosted, open-source platform that organizes AI agents into a structured company-like hierarchy with org charts, roles, budgets, and governance controls. Users define business goals, "hire" agents from any provider or runtime, and assign tasks with full context. Agents wake on heartbeats, receive delegated work, and report status through task threads that preserve conversations, plans, files, and run history. The platform supports multi-organization deployment and brings its own Postgres for production use, while a dashboard gives visibility into work progress and costs across the entire agent workforce.
Target Audience
Primary users are technical operators, founders, and teams building autonomous or AI-assisted businesses who need to coordinate multiple AI agents across development, content, marketing, QA, research, and outreach functions. The platform also serves developers wanting a polished orchestration layer with a task-manager-style interface.
Features
- Bring Your Own Agent: Works with OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, and Kimi Code, integrating any agent that can receive a heartbeat
- Heartbeats: Agents wake for assigned work, follow-up messages, or configured schedules, with delegation flowing up and down the org chart
- Cost Control: Company, agent, and project budgets with spend tracking, threshold alerts, and automatic work pausing at configured limits
- Governance: Configurable review and approval stages, hire approvals, and ability to pause, reassign, or stop work when needed
- Org Chart: Hierarchies, roles, and reporting lines that give agents a boss, a title, and a job description
- Multi-Organization: Single deployment supporting separate tasks, agents, permissions, and activity histories for different organizations
- Apps & Connections: Integrations with GitHub, Notion, Railway, and custom MCP servers
- Skills, Routines and Ready-Made Teams: Shared versioned skills, scheduled recurring work, and installable teams for rapid deployment