Paperclip AI

Overview

Paperclip is an open-source Node.js framework for orchestrating zero-human companies. It provides the organizational backbone that coordinates multiple autonomous AI agents — with org charts, budgets, goals, governance, and accountability. Think of it as the management layer that turns individual AI agents into a functioning company.

Key Features

• Org charts with defined roles and reporting lines for AI agents
• Budget enforcement with automatic throttling to prevent runaway API costs
• Goal alignment ensuring all tasks connect to company objectives
• Heartbeat scheduling for regular agent check-ins and task assignments
• Complete audit trails logging all agent decisions and actions
• Multi-company support from a single deployment with data isolation
• Agent-agnostic: works with OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Bash, HTTP agents
• Clipmart marketplace for pre-configured company templates
• Interactive setup: npx paperclipai onboard

Use Cases

Run an entire autonomous business with AI agents that have jobs, not chat windows. Paperclip handles the coordination — who does what, when, within what budget — while agents execute.

Pricing

Free and open source (MIT license). Self-hosted with embedded database or Postgres.