Paperclip

Paperclip lets users organize AI agents into a company-style structure. Users define a goal, hire agents such as a CEO, CTO, engineers, or marketers from any provider, and approve strategy and budgets before running them. The page describes features including bring-your-own-agent support, org charts, goal alignment, scheduled heartbeats, per-agent monthly budgets with automatic stops, ticket-based tracing and audit logs, and governance controls where the user acts as the board. It is MIT-licensed, can run locally with an embedded Postgres database or against your own Postgres, and supports multiple companies within one deployment. A waitlist and local install are offered.

Key features

• Bring Your Own Agent: works with any agent runtime that can receive a heartbeat
• Org chart with hierarchies, roles, and reporting lines
• Goal alignment linking tasks to company mission
• Heartbeats that schedule agents to check work and act
• Monthly budgets per agent that pause agents at limit
• Cost tracking per agent, task, project, and goal
• Ticket system with full tool-call tracing and immutable audit log
• Governance with board approval for hires, pause, override, reassign, and terminate controls
• Open source under MIT license, extensible through extensions
• Support for running multiple companies in one deployment with data isolation
• Local or remote deployment with interactive setup via npx paperclipai onboard

Best suited for

• Teams running multiple AI agents across business functions such as dev, content, social, marketing, QA, research, and outreach
• Builders who want self-hosted, open-source orchestration of agent workforces
• Users who want cost limits and governance over autonomous agents
• Operators running separate ventures or testing strategies in parallel

Pricing

Not stated on the website