We just open-sourced Paperclip: the orchestration layer for zero-human companies It's everything you need to run an autonomous business: org charts, goal alignment, task ownership, budgets, agent templates Just run `npx paperclipai onboard` More 👇

Paperclip is right for you if you: * have 20 Claude Code tabs open and can't remember who is doing what * use different types of agents (Codex, OpenClaw, ...) * want agents working for you 24/7 (with auditable work/costs) * want an autonomous business (not manage pull requests)

If it feels like you're falling behind (because everyone else is managing teams of agents and you're still managing shell scripts) Paperclip is what you need

Why is Paperclip special? - Agent tasks are atomically coordinated - Automatic Context points toward a goal - so your agents always know why - Any agent, any runtime - coordination not lock-in It's high taste - it feels good to use

You should stop reading and try it: npx paperclipai onboard The app will launch, you'll setup your CEO, and he'll ask you to approve hiring a Coder. It's fun. Try it.

Good work! Testing now. What a great start! We may be able to offer some more points for ya soon. Thank you!

Dude this actually looks really cool Genuinely different from what everyone else has put out there

you can only manage a rats nest of shell scripts and HEARTBEATS.md for so long before you realize there's got to be a better way

Omg that is the biggest diss I’ve ever read on agent orchestrators

Lololol. The name. It’s genius. For zero-human companies. Chef’s kiss. Well played

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Nice! Added to

Thanks!!!

hands down the most significant release post openclaw THANK YOU

It's a great irony that the first ai agent was also a paperclip maximizer

oh man this looks crazy 😳

Gotta try it, boo

Hey @dotta the community rallied around Paperclip and launched a token on to support the project. 160+ people joined and trading fees are now locked and redirected to the repo. There’s already ~$5,000 in fees allocated to claim in your Github. People genuinely believe in what you're building with Paperclip. Have you seen it yet? 👀

the wild part isnt the orchestration layer. its what happens when zero-human companies start competing with human-run ones at 1/100th the cost. every traditional business becomes a legacy system overnight. and the zero-human companies will iterate faster because theres no meetings, no politics, no sleep

this is why you should download and install paperclip

Open-sourcing the orchestration layer is the right move; governance and budget caps are where most autonomous stacks break first. Do you expose hard spend limits per agent by default?

it's built into the system to enforce the caps, but budgets start unlimited at first just to make it easier to use

Forgive me for learning in public… But can you “BYOA”? I have @CherylFromNet can I download this and then upload her? (For lack of a better way of saying it)

@CherylFromNet Yes* (well, we're still massaging the onboarding process but yes)

@CherylFromNet how it works is you give her an invite link and she learns the Paperclip skill

@CherylFromNet Oh sick. I like that. Ok. Whenever i get a minute I’m gonna look into this. Gotta wrap up a few Net Library things and @hazzaname things and then I’ll be g2g

Open-sourcing Paperclip is huge — super important for its long-term development and the whole ZHC ecosystem. Community just launched a bankr token to help bootstrap the next research phase and Paperclip Cloud 🔥 Whatever your decision, the community will respect it. Thank you for your contributions to ZHC eco, plx feel free to claim the fee.

Wild, this looks very interesting dotta.

Cool I’ll give it a try Been using conductor

GREAT - let me know how it goes and happy to help with any rough edges

wow not a bad idea, I must say !

imagine the pit in my stomach when i was halfway done paperclip and saw how cool openchief was! Paperclip is pretty different though

this is like my favorite part of the new era of software though no defensible ideas! you just go build shit now! there would never be any reason for me to be like WTF man? cause I literally am mostly using it for myself, and just maintaining the OSS part for fun but obviously, love the idea

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COME CLAIM THE FEES WE RAISED FOR THIS PROJECT ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

Now... hear me out.

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Fine. I’ll start another AI project

Has it built any cool profitable micro businesses for you yet?

Will talk more about them soon

Oh perfect timing... my Slack agents are fighting over stepping on each other's toes!

Yeah Paperclip has strict task checkout semantics

shoutout @mintlify

Amazing stuff!

thanks sreeram! would love to hear about your experience building with it if you try it out

Paging team (of agents).

Just joined the community and looking forward to help out \ if you guys need it.

We definitely need it. Especially if you want to review PRs. Or even better just make money with Paperclip and we will tell everyone about it

was just looking for ways to orchestrate agents and now I see this is just released and new. way to go!

would love to help onboard if you have any trouble with it! there's a discord too

I will try it tomorrow. Just wondering what would be easiest setup and use case? Currently I just work with cursor but want to try out multiagent orch. So I can use cursor agents with this right? and ask to build some app to feel the power? or what other good example could I try?

i'll try to add the cursor agent adapter by the time you try it tomorrow

let me know when cursor is there, would really like to try with it.

almost done

This is awesome. I’m building a subset of this right now, will probably steal some ideas

It's all open source so go for it 🙌

Hey, wanna come tell us about this on this weeks @thursdai_pod ? We have a weekly ai pod and this would fit right in

@thursdai_pod Yes

@thursdai_pod Dope! Dm?

This is really freaking cool. Ill have to try this out after and if I can get my claw to stop bugging out. Today he went rogue in our slack channel and edited CRM data. My mistake but sheesh... Dope stuff tho @dotta

He's the captain now

curious how Paperclip handles goal drift when an agent's local optimization conflicts with the top-level company objective. that's where most multi-agent systems fall apart in practice.

It's definitely a work in progress but it tries to help by context management by giving the agents all of the goals to the top of the company alongside the tasks

Wait, did you just open source a paperclip maximizer

Do you need any paperclips maximized? 🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️

Great work, as usual 👏

THANKS PUFF - try it and let me know what you think

dope agentic orchestration approach. spotlighted on our platform

Fun thanks

Sexy

orchestration is one half. judgment is the other. @calmakesthings has 8 agents running a cpg brand. the org chart works. the problem was none of them could tell good creative from bad. she had to build a self-evaluation system so agents judge their own output before shipping. orchestration + taste = the full zero-human stack.

@calmakesthings 💯 humans have to provide the judgement taste and accountability. Getting good evals is half the battle