AI Agents and Automation
Build an AI Company in 5 Minutes
Paperclip is free, open-source, and got 1.6M views in one week. Turns every AI agent you already use into a company with roles, handoffs, and memory.
Paperclip is an open-source multi-agent framework that got 1.6 million views in its first week because it solves something real: individual AI agents are powerful but uncoordinated. They do not share memory, they do not hand off to each other, and they do not know their role within a larger workflow. Paperclip gives them structure: roles, handoffs, shared memory, and defined workflows that function like a company.
How to do it
- 1Clone the Paperclip repo from GitHub (MIT license, free, actively maintained)
- 2Define your company structure in `company.yaml`. Assign roles like researcher, writer, reviewer, and operator
- 3Write a system prompt for each role defining its responsibility, access level, and what it hands off when done
- 4Configure the shared memory layer so agents can read each other's outputs and build on prior context
- 5Run a test workflow: intake agent summarises a brief, research agent gathers data, writer agent produces output, reviewer agent checks it
- 6Customise role definitions to match your actual operation: sales, delivery, QA, admin
Why it works
A single operator running five coordinating agents is not a person using AI, it is a small team. Paperclip makes that real by giving agents defined handoffs and shared context so nothing falls through the gaps between steps.
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