Paperclip#

Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies. Node.js server + React UI. MIT licensed.

“If OpenClaw is an employee, Paperclip is the company.”

What It Does#

Orchestrates teams of AI agents into companies with:

  • Org charts: Hierarchies, roles, reporting lines
  • Goal alignment: Every task traces to company mission
  • Budgets: Monthly per-agent, atomic enforcement
  • Governance: Approval gates, rollback, audit logs
  • Heartbeats: Scheduled agent wake cycles
  • Ticket system: Every conversation traced, every decision explained
  • Multi-company: One deployment, many isolated companies

Agent Support#

Agent-agnostic: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Bash, HTTP. “If it can receive a heartbeat, it’s hired.”

In the Ecosystem#

Paperclip operates at a layer above the other tools in this wiki:

Paperclip    — Company layer (org charts, budgets, goals, governance)
  ↓
Scion        — Infrastructure layer (containers, runtimes, harnesses)
  ↓
Claude Code  — Tool layer (agentic loop, skills, hooks, MCP)

Introduces a fourth approach to multi-agent-orchestration: company-level orchestration, beyond infrastructure (Scion), product (Kiro), and tool (Claude Code).

See Also#

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