Paperclip Vision
Most AI companies fail because the CEO has no real mandate — just a vague goal field and good intentions. Paperclip Vision fixes that at the source: a Claude Code skill that interviews you, the founder, and writes the company constitution your CEO agent reads every heartbeat. Out comes VISION.md and CEO_BOOTSTRAP.md — fully populated, no placeholders, ready to run.
A Claude Code skill that interviews your founder and writes the constitution your AI company needs to run itself.
Most AI agent setups fail not because the agents are bad, but because they have no clear mandate. They don't know what they're allowed to do, who to escalate to, or what the company is actually trying to accomplish. Paperclip Vision solves this at the source — it interviews the founder, extracts strategic intent, and translates it into two machine-readable documents:
| Document | Purpose | |---|---| | VISION.md | The company constitution. Mission, revenue model, target customer, growth strategy, org structure, CEO mandate, guiding principles. The CEO agent reads this every heartbeat. | | CEOBOOTSTRAP.md | One-time activation instructions for the CEO agent. What to do first, in what order, and what to generate so the company can run itself. |
How it works
Scans your project first — reads agent profiles, heartbeat files, existing vision documents, phase plans, tech stack, ops files. Uses what it finds to pre-fill context, skip redundant questions, and make the interview feel specific. Structured 16-question founder interview across six sections: Big Picture, Revenue & Customers, Growth & Marketing, Product Direction, CEO Autonomy, Vision & Identity. Generates both documents — fully populated, no placeholders, adapted to your specific company and industry.
Core philosophy: Research → Plan → Execute
Every VISION.md includes this operating model as a non-negotiable principle. It's what prevents autonomous agents from publishing too much content too fast and destroying SEO, entering communities without understanding norms and getting banned, or launching channels without a strategy.
Gate 1 — Research produces a written output with cited sources. Gate 2 — Plan is reviewed by the Chief of Staff before anything starts. Gate 3 — Execute is scheduled into the master calendar by the CoS.
Org structure
Every company bootstrapped with Paperclip Vision gets the same foundational structure:
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