Axel Bitblaze 🪓@Axel_bitblaze69
This might be one of the most useful Ai tool i’ve found for you all
It's called Paperclip. it lets you build and run an entire company with AI agents.
Not one agent. A full team.
CEO, engineers, QA.. all delegating tasks to each other autonomously.
▫️How it works and how to set it up:
You create a "company" and add AI agents as employees. Each agent gets:
> A role (CEO, engineer, QA, marketer, designer.. whatever)
> Skills (what they're allowed to do which you can import these from GitHub)
> Routines (recurring tasks they handle on autopilot)
> Heartbeats (scheduled wake-ups in every 4, 8, or 12 hours)
> A budget (so they don't burn through your API credits)
When an agent wakes up on its heartbeat, it starts fresh.. checks its tasks, reads its instructions, gets familiar with its environment and starts working.
The CEO agent is the real unlock. It breaks down projects, hires new agents when needed, and delegates tasks to the right team member. so you're not managing agents.. the CEO is.
You just act as the "board" set high-level goals, approve hires, and review outputs. The agents handle the rest.
Now,
▫️How to set this up from scratch:
> Step 1: Open your terminal and run this one command:
- npx paperclipai onboard --yes
- This starts the server and opens the dashboard on localhost
> Step 2: Name your company
- It walks you through onboarding. give your company a name, set the mission and goals
> Step 3: Create your first agent, start with the CEO
- Go to Agents → Add Agent
- Set the role as CEO
- Configure their instructions (Paperclip auto-generates soul files, heartbeat files, tools files)
- Set their heartbeat schedule (every 4h, 8h, or 12h)
- Enable budget limits if you want to cap API spend
> Step 4: Give the CEO a project
- Create a project with your high-level goal
- Assign it to the CEO
- The CEO will break it down, request to hire team members, and start delegating
> Step 5: Approve hires from your inbox
- The CEO sends hire requests to your inbox (e.g. "I need a fullstack engineer")
- You approve or reject then the new agent gets created automatically
> Step 6: Add skills
- Go to Company Skills → paste a GitHub URL of any skill
- It pulls in the skill instantly.. front-end design, copywriting, research, whatever
- Check skills. sh for a free marketplace of skills you can import
> Step 7: Set up routines
- Routines are recurring tasks agents run automatically
- Example: "Every morning, research trending topics and draft 3 content ideas"
> Step 8: Import pre-built company templates (optional but powerful)
- Go to the Paperclip GitHub repo → paperclip company section
- There's a growing catalog of ready-to-deploy company templates
- One click import. zyou get the full org structure, agents, skills, everything
> Step 9: Add your API keys
- Go to Settings → Secrets
- Add your Claude API key (or any LLM provider key)
That's it. Your AI company is running.
No Paperclip account needed. Self-hosted. Open source. 35K+ GitHub stars..
