diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9925ae0a..d4be3aae 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -125,16 +125,16 @@ Monitor and manage your autonomous businesses from anywhere.
-## What Paperclip is not +## Problems Paperclip solves -| | | -| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| **Not a chatbot.** | Agents have jobs, not chat windows. | -| **Not an agent framework.** | We don't tell you how to build agents. We tell you how to run a company made of them. | -| **Not a workflow builder.** | No drag-and-drop pipelines. Paperclip models companies — with org charts, goals, budgets, and governance. | -| **Not a prompt manager.** | Agents bring their own prompts, models, and runtimes. Paperclip manages the organization they work in. | -| **Not a single-agent tool.** | This is for teams. If you have one agent, you probably don't need Paperclip. If you have twenty — you definitely do. | -| **Not a code review tool.** | Paperclip orchestrates work, not pull requests. Bring your own review process. | +| Without Paperclip | With Paperclip | +| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| ❌ You have 20 Claude Code tabs open and can't track which one does what. On reboot you lose everything. | ✅ Tasks are ticket-based, conversations are threaded, sessions persist across reboots. | +| ❌ You manually gather context from several places to remind your bot what you're actually doing. | ✅ Context flows from the task up through the project and company goals — your agent always knows what to do and why. | +| ❌ Folders of agent configs are disorganized and you're re-inventing task management, communication, and coordination between agents. | ✅ Paperclip gives you org charts, ticketing, delegation, and governance out of the box — so you run a company, not a pile of scripts. | +| ❌ Runaway loops waste hundreds of dollars of tokens and max your quota before you even know what happened. | ✅ Cost tracking surfaces token budgets and throttles agents when they're out. Management prioritizes with budgets. | +| ❌ You have recurring jobs (customer support, social, reports) and have to remember to manually kick them off. | ✅ Heartbeats handle regular work on a schedule. Management supervises. | +| ❌ You have an idea, you have to find your repo, fire up Claude Code, keep a tab open, and babysit it. | ✅ Add a task in Paperclip. Your coding agent works on it until it's done. Management reviews their work. |
@@ -154,6 +154,19 @@ Paperclip handles the hard orchestration details correctly.
+## What Paperclip is not + +| | | +| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| **Not a chatbot.** | Agents have jobs, not chat windows. | +| **Not an agent framework.** | We don't tell you how to build agents. We tell you how to run a company made of them. | +| **Not a workflow builder.** | No drag-and-drop pipelines. Paperclip models companies — with org charts, goals, budgets, and governance. | +| **Not a prompt manager.** | Agents bring their own prompts, models, and runtimes. Paperclip manages the organization they work in. | +| **Not a single-agent tool.** | This is for teams. If you have one agent, you probably don't need Paperclip. If you have twenty — you definitely do. | +| **Not a code review tool.** | Paperclip orchestrates work, not pull requests. Bring your own review process. | + +
+ ## Quickstart Open source. Self-hosted. No Paperclip account required.