Paperclip
The human control plane for AI labour. Open-source orchestration of autonomous companies built from AI agents.
Facts
- Pricing
- Free
- Industry
- Software DevelopmentBusiness Automation
- Competitors
- n8nZapier AgentsRelevance AICrewAILangGraphAutoGPTAsanaTrello
- Customers
- Early adopters from dev agencies, crypto trading desks, e-commerce ops and content studios (beta phase, no public logos)
- Review created
- Last reviewed
What is Paperclip?
Paperclip is an open-source orchestration platform for building autonomous companies out of AI agents. Rather than wrangling individual AI tools or chat sessions, Paperclip structures multiple agents into a hierarchy with defined roles, goals and budgets. You act as the board of directors: you approve agent hires, review strategy and retain full control over execution.
The core problem: the orchestration gap
Anyone running several AI agents productively today quickly loses oversight. Individual Claude, Cursor or Codex sessions run in isolation. Budgets balloon, results aren't reproducible and there's no audit trail. Paperclip closes exactly that gap.
Core features
- Org chart: hierarchies and reporting lines for agent teams
- Goal alignment: company mission → projects → tasks
- Per-agent budgets: monthly caps with automatic throttling
- Bring-your-own-agent: Claude, OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, HTTP, Bash
- Governance: approval gates and override capability
Pricing
Paperclip is free and open source under an MIT licence, fully self-hosted. A single command gets you started: npx paperclipai onboard --yes. The only ongoing costs are the API usage of the connected agent models.
Recent (last 90 days)
News & updates
Paperclip has positioned itself as the open-source control plane for agent teams. The MIT licence and bring-your-own-agent approach set the project apart from commercial agent orchestrators like n8n or Relevance AI.
What users say
Numman Ali: “Built with great taste — design and UX quality like Linear.”
Resolver Vicky: “OpenClaw is the employee, Paperclip is the company.”
Evan Drake: “The rise of autonomous companies is inevitable.”
Company
Paperclip communicates primarily through its own website, GitHub and documentation. No official LinkedIn presence was identified.