Descriptions:
Paperclip is an open-source agent orchestration platform that has quickly gained attention, accumulating 30,000 GitHub stars in just three weeks. Designed around the concept of “zero human companies,” it lets users define business goals, hire a team of AI agents, assign roles and budgets, and manage their work through a structured dashboard — with a key differentiator being a “bring your own bot” model that supports Claude CLI, OpenClaw, Cursor Cloud, and other tools.
In this episode, Greg Isenberg sits down with Dota, Paperclip’s pseudonymous creator, for one of his first public demonstrations of the product. The walkthrough covers setting up an agent team, assigning skills via the skills.sh marketplace (including the Remotion video editing skill), and using the CEO agent to coordinate subordinate agents. Dota positions Paperclip between fully automatic tools like Pulsia and hands-on coding environments, offering more accountability over what agents are doing and why — a response to the common experience of OpenClaw drifting or breaking after sustained use.
The conversation also tackles practical challenges: security risks of third-party skills, how to keep agents on task, and maintaining output quality. Dota frames Paperclip as a potential third major moment in AI adoption — after ChatGPT showed AI could talk and OpenClaw showed AI could act, Paperclip aims to show that AI can do real, accountable business work. Founders and builders looking to operationalize multi-agent workflows will find this demo a grounded, practical look at what’s feasible today.
📺 Source: Greg Isenberg · Published March 26, 2026
🏷️ Format: Hands On Build
