Paperclip is the app people use to manage AI agents for work.

Open-source orchestration for teams of AI agents.

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 work and costs from one dashboard.

It looks like a task manager. Under the hood: org charts, budgets, governance, goal alignment, and agent coordination.

Manage business goals, not pull requests.

Step	Example
Define the goal	"Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1M MRR."
Hire the team	CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any bot, any provider.
Approve and run	Review strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard.

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

The four pillars

Four things have to work for an organization of AI agents to actually produce: the tasks, the org, the training, and the infrastructure. Paperclip is built around exactly those four pillars.

Pillar	Built for	What it covers
Agentic Task Manager — Declare intent. Agents work. You verify the output.	Everyone, daily	Tasks, approvals & review gates · proactive agent coworkers · auditable routines & workflows · verify from diffs, screenshots & tests
Org Chart for Agents — Roles, permissions & boundaries for humans and agents.	Managers	Mixed human + agent org chart · responsibilities, delegation, specialization · governance: who can do what · scoped secrets & company boundaries
Agent Employee Training — Design, train & evaluate your AI employees.	Enablers	Skill Studio & shared org-wide skills · evals & saved test runs · active learning loops & quality metrics · performance reviews for agents
Agentic OS — The infrastructure that makes the work run.	IT & platform	Cross-provider runtime: any model, any agent · sandboxing, integrations & MCP servers · SSO, GRC, RBAC & cost controls · data privacy, internal trace collection, compounding data value

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

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

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's Under the Hood

Paperclip is a full control plane, not a wrapper.

Quickstart

Open source. Self-hosted. No Paperclip account required.

curl -fsSLO https://paperclip.ing/install.sh
bash install.sh

For a non-interactive managed install:

curl -fsSL https://paperclip.ing/install.sh | bash -s -- --no-prompt --no-onboard
paperclipai onboard --yes

To try Paperclip without installing anything permanently:

npx --registry https://registry.npmjs.org paperclipai onboard --yes

That quickstart path now defaults to trusted local loopback mode for the fastest first run. To start in authenticated/private mode instead, choose a bind preset explicitly:

paperclipai onboard --yes --bind lan

FAQ

What does a typical setup look like? Locally, a single Node.js process manages an embedded Postgres and local file storage. For production, point it at your own Postgres and deploy however you like.

Can I run multiple companies? Yes. A single deployment can run an unlimited number of companies with complete data isolation.

How is Paperclip different from agents like OpenClaw or Claude Code? Paperclip uses those agents. It orchestrates them into a company — with org charts, budgets, goals, governance, and accountability.

Do agents run continuously? By default, agents run on scheduled heartbeats and event-based triggers. You can also hook in continuous agents like OpenClaw.

Roadmap

Plugin system
Scheduled Routines
Budgeting
Agent Reviews and Approvals
Artifacts & Work Products
Secrets Manager

Contributing

We welcome contributions.

Paperclip (GitHub Repo)