Paperclip

Paperclip is an open-source app for managing teams of AI agents the way you would manage a company, with more than 105,000 stars on GitHub. If an agent like OpenClaw is an employee, Paperclip is the company it works for.

Overview

Paperclip is a Node.js server with a React dashboard that orchestrates agents from any provider toward shared business goals. Instead of juggling dozens of terminal sessions, you define a goal, “hire” a team — a CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers, each potentially a different agent runtime — then approve the strategy, set budgets and monitor everything from one place. Work is organized through an agentic task manager where every task traces back through projects to the company mission, so agents always know what to do and why.

It is deliberately model- and runtime-agnostic: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, plain scripts and even HTTP endpoints can all join the same org chart, as long as they can receive a heartbeat. Agents wake on schedules or task assignments, delegate work up and down the chart, and pause automatically when budgets run out.

Key Features

• Org chart for agents – roles, titles, reporting lines and permissions for humans and agents in one hierarchy.
• Goal alignment – every task links to project and company goals, giving agents the context behind their work.
• Cost control – company, project and per-agent budgets with threshold alerts and automatic pauses at limits.
• Heartbeats and routines – scheduled wake-ups and recurring routines with owners, run history and outputs.
• Governance – approval gates for hiring and strategy, plus the ability to pause, reassign or stop any agent.
• Task threads and audit trail – conversations, files, blockers and full tool-call traces attached to each ticket.
• Multi-organization and mobile – run many companies in one deployment with isolated data, and manage them from your phone.

💳 Pricing

Paperclip is free and open source under the MIT license; you self-host it and no Paperclip account is required. A hosted Paperclip Cloud is in the works with a waitlist, but the complete app is available to run yourself at no cost.

Who Is It For

Founders, operators and engineering teams running multiple AI agents in parallel who need budgets, accountability and a single dashboard instead of a screen full of unmanaged agent sessions.