Key Concepts
Before you start clicking around, it's worth spending five minutes here. Paperclip introduces a handful of ideas that don't have perfect equivalents in other software — and if you misunderstand them…
Key Concepts
Before you start clicking around, it's worth spending five minutes here. Paperclip introduces a handful of ideas that don't have perfect equivalents in other software — and if you misunderstand them early, the product will seem confusing in ways that are hard to untangle later.
This guide explains seven concepts that underpin everything in Paperclip. Analogies come first; technical detail follows.
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Company
In one sentence: A Company is a self-contained AI organisation with a single goal, a team of agents, a task board, and a budget.
The analogy: Think of a Company the way you'd think of a Notion workspace — everything related to a project lives inside it. The difference is that a Paperclip Company isn't just a place to store information. It's an active organisation that plans and executes work autonomously.
Why it exists: Paperclip can run multiple, separate AI organisations in parallel. The Company boundary keeps their goals, agents, tasks, and budgets isolated from each other — so you could run a "Content Marketing" company and a "Software Development" company side-by-side without them interfering.
What you do with it: Create a Company with a name and a goal Set a monthly budget ceiling for the whole organisation Monitor all work and costs from the Company's dashboard
Every single thing in Paperclip — every agent, every task, every dollar spent — belongs to a Company.