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Experiment: Paperclip

Paperclip is not my project. It is an open-source orchestration platform, built by others, for running 'zero-human companies': you define a business goal, create agents with roles like CEO, engineers, marketers and QA, set budgets, and let them collaborate through a Node.js backend and a React dashboard. I explored it to understand how role-based multi-agent setups divide work, and where budgets and governance fit in. It is listed here as an experiment with someone else's tool, not as something I built.

Experimental·experimentation·2026

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

// hero
Experiment: Paperclip
// stack
frontend
ReactTypeScript
backend
Node.js
database
PostgreSQL
tools
DockerGitHub Actions
// challenges
  • ▸Understanding how role-based agents divide and hand off work
  • ▸Seeing where budgets and governance controls constrain autonomous agents
// solutions
  • ▸Explored its role, budget and governance model
  • ▸Compared it with the single-agent and workflow patterns used elsewhere on this site
// outcomes — impact1
▸

A first-hand look at how a role-based multi-agent platform is structured

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