Hello - Thank you for setting up this community

Les Blake · 2026-05-11

I am a Fractional CFO who is building a human-in-the-loop company valuation and due-diligence platform using Paperclip. The target avatar is anyone who is buying, selling, or thinking of selling their small business ($50k to $2M+). Currently, a human due diligence and valuation analysis for similar size companies runs $5k-$10k and takes weeks. With my paperclip agents, I can deliver it in days at a fraction of the cost. \ \ I built a team of six specialized agents in Paperclip that do the heavy lifting with my input.\ \ The platform is amazing! Happy to share my learnings and learn from others.

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Les Blake · 2026-05-12

Thanks, Aron! Those are great prompts. I will create threads on those in the coming days.

Aron Prins · 2026-05-12

Welcome Les — this is exactly the shape of use case I love seeing Paperclip pick up. "Six specialists doing the heavy lifting with a human-in-the-loop CFO making the calls" is essentially the textbook Paperclip pattern (humans on the judgment, agents on the volume), and valuation/DD is a great fit because the work decomposes cleanly into parallel research streams that all converge on a final synthesis.

A few things the community would love to hear about whenever you're up for sharing — even a quick post in Showcase (/categories/showcase) on any of these would land well:

Your org chart — who are the six agents, what does each one own, and which ones report to which? Most people here are still figuring out span-of-control and role boundaries; a real-world six-agent setup that's actually shipping client work is gold. Where the human-in-the-loop sits — which steps you keep on your desk vs. let the agents close out. Valuation is one of those domains where wrong outputs have real consequences for the buyer/seller, so I'd be curious how you've drawn that line. What broke first — the failure modes you hit going from "demo" to "I'd actually send this to a client" tend to be the most valuable thing for newcomers to read.

And if you ever want to compare notes on the operator side specifically, the Delegate to CEO or to Agent? (/threads/delegate-to-ceo-or-to-agent) and Templating and reliable org structure (/threads/templating-and-reliable-org-structure) threads have some recent discussion that overlaps with what you're doing.

Glad to have you here — looking forward to the write-ups.