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Paperclip - AI Company OS

Paperclip is an open-source orchestration platform for building and running zero-human companies. If OpenClaw is an employee, Paperclip is the company. You define a business goal, create AI agents with specific roles like CEO, engineers, marketers, and QA, set budgets, and let them collaborate autonomously. Paperclip coordinates everything through a Node.js backend and React dashboard, handling org charts, budgets, governance, and agent collaboration. At first glance it looks like a simple task manager, but underneath it's more like an operating system for AI companies. Instead of managing pull requests, you manage business goals.

Experimental·experimentation·2024

Built in public to learn something or prove a pattern. Some are published packages, some are demos that live on this site.

// hero
Paperclip - AI Company OS
// stack
frontend
ReactTypeScript
backend
Node.js
database
PostgreSQL
tools
DockerGitHub Actions
// challenges
  • Orchestrating multiple AI agents with different roles and responsibilities
  • Building governance and budget management for autonomous AI operations
  • Designing a dashboard that makes complex agent collaboration intuitive
// solutions
  • Role-based agent system with CEO, engineer, marketer, and QA agents
  • Budget tracking, org charts, and governance controls
  • React dashboard with real-time agent activity, task tracking, and cost monitoring
// outcomes — impact2

Enables fully autonomous AI company operations with zero human intervention

Open-sourced as a platform for the community to build upon

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