paperclip

Overview

Paperclip is a self-hosted orchestration platform that coordinates teams of AI agents toward business goals. It provides org charts, budgets, governance, task tracking, and cost controls in a single dashboard. Supports bring-your-own agents from OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more.

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\n  \n\n\n\n  Quickstart ·\n  Docs ·\n  GitHub ·\n  Discord ·\n  Twitter ·\n  Website\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n# Paperclip is the app people use to manage AI agents for work.\n\nOpen-source orchestration for teams of AI agents.\n\n**If OpenClaw is an _employee_, Paperclip is the _company_.**\n\nPaperclip 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.\n\nIt looks like a task manager. Under the hood: org charts, budgets, governance, goal alignment, and agent coordination.\n\n**Manage business goals, not pull requests.**\n\n|        | Step            | Example                                                            |\n| ------ | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| **01** | Define the goal | _"Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1M MRR."_                    |\n| **02** | Hire the team   | CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any bot, any provider. |\n| **03** | Approve and run | Review strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard.  |\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n    Workswith\n    OpenClaw\n    Claude Code\n    Codex\n    Cursor\n    Bash\n    HTTP\n  \n\n\nIf it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.\n\n\n\n\n\n## Paperclip is right for you if\n\n- ✅ You want to build **autonomous AI companies**\n- ✅ You **coordinate many different agents** (OpenClaw, Codex, Claude, Cursor) toward a common goal\n- ✅ You have **20 simultaneous Claude Code terminals** open and lose track of what everyone is doing\n- ✅ You want agents running **autonomously 24/7**, but still want to audit work and chime in when needed\n- ✅ You want to **monitor costs** and enforce budgets\n- ✅ You want a process for managing agents that **feels like using a task manager**\n- ✅ You want to manage your autonomous businesses **from your phone**\n\n\n\n## The four pillars\