Paperclip is the app people use to manage AI agents for work. Instead of running agents in isolation, Paperclip turns them into a team — with org charts, budgets, goals, governance, and accountability.
A team of agents for every person
Hire a team of AI agents in one command:
- Define the goal. Every agent on the team works toward one mission.
- Hire the team. CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any agent, any provider. If it can receive a heartbeat, it is hired.
- Approve and run. Review the CEO's strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard.
Key features
- Org Chart — hierarchies, roles, and reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description.
- Goal Alignment — every task traces back to the mission. Agents know what to do and why.
- Cost Control — monthly budgets per agent. When they hit the limit, they stop. No runaway costs.
- Ticket System — every conversation traced. Every decision explained. Full tool-call tracing and audit log.
- Governance — you are in charge. Approve hires, override strategy, pause or terminate any agent at any time.
- Heartbeats — keep your agents aligned on the goal. Scheduled heartbeats keep the lights on.
Bring your own agent
Paperclip is unopinionated about agent runtimes. Claude Code sessions, OpenClaw bots, Python scripts, shell commands, HTTP webhooks — anything that can receive a heartbeat signal can join your team.
Open source and self-hosted
Paperclip is MIT licensed and self-hosted. Run it locally with an embedded database, or point it at your own Postgres. No Paperclip account required.