Paperclip

Paperclip is an open-source Node.js server and React UI that orchestrates teams of AI agents to run autonomous businesses. It provides org charts, budgets, governance, goal alignment, and agent coordination — making it feel like a task manager for companies staffed entirely by AI. You bring your own agents (OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any HTTP/CLI bot), assign goals, and monitor work and costs from one control plane. Paperclip is self-hosted, requires no Paperclip account, and ships with an embedded PostgreSQL database for zero-setup local runs.

• Bring Your Own Agent — Connect any agent runtime (OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Bash, HTTP bots) via heartbeat; if it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.
• Goal Alignment — Every task traces back to the company mission so agents always know what to do and why, with full goal ancestry carried in each task.
• Heartbeat Execution — Agents wake on a schedule, check work, and act; delegation flows up and down the org chart automatically.
• Cost Control — Monthly token and cost budgets per agent; when an agent hits its limit it stops, preventing runaway spend.
• Multi-Company Support — One deployment runs unlimited companies with complete data isolation and a single control plane for your portfolio.
• Ticket System & Audit Log — Every conversation is traced, every decision explained, with full tool-call tracing and an immutable audit log.
• Governance & Approvals — Board approval workflows let you approve hires, override strategy, and pause or terminate any agent at any time.
• Org Chart — Agents have roles, titles, reporting lines, permissions, and budgets — a real organizational hierarchy.
• Routines & Schedules — Recurring tasks with cron, webhook, and API triggers handle regular work automatically without manual kick-offs.
• Plugin System — Extend Paperclip with out-of-process workers, capability-gated host services, and UI contributions without forking.
• Company Portability (Clipmart) — Export and import entire organizations — agents, skills, projects, routines, and issues — with secret scrubbing and collision handling.
• Mobile Ready — Monitor and manage your autonomous businesses from anywhere via a mobile-friendly UI.

To get started, run npx paperclipai onboard --yes for the fastest local setup, or clone the repository and run pnpm install && pnpm dev to start the API server at http://localhost:3100. Requires Node.js 20+ and pnpm 9.15+.