I Built an AI Agent Company (From Scratch)

How do you turn a group of AI agents into a company that actually runs itself? You know, with org charts, roles, goals, budgets, and agents working around the clock 24 seven. There's this project called Paperclip. Maybe you've seen it because it just blew up. It got 30,000 GitHub stars in the last three weeks. And it's an open source project that's building the orchestration layer for exactly that, hiring a team of AI agents. So I sat down with DOTA. He's the creator, and it's one of the first times he's publicly talked about how to use his product. We broke down exactly how to use Paperclip in practice and what a zero human company could look like using Paperclip. Enjoy the episode. DOTA is here. Well, his AI avatar is here, and we're gonna be going through Paperclip, the viral, you know what are you calling it? Yeah. So it's a, agent orchestrator for, zero human companies. So it's a tool that you can use to put in your ideas and, manage a company of agents. Okay. And by the end of this episode, what are people gonna get out of this? Yeah. So, by the end of this episode, you will be able to know how to, get paperclip up and running and use it to manage a team of AI agents, to help you with your business. Okay. And you're not gonna hold back from people. Right? You're gonna you're gonna tell you're gonna give us the unfiltered how to get started, how to get the most out of it, and maybe where the future of this product is going. Right? Absolutely. Yeah. I'll give you my best tips. You know, I think there's a lot of tricky things when it comes to using AI agents, and we'll talk about it. We'll talk about ways to keep them moving. We'll talk about ways to get quality work. I'll give you all my best details. And and just just I have to ask, like, why are you an avatar, and why are you not showing your face? Oh, yeah. So, before I worked on Paperclip, I was working in, in, NFTs and, the DOTA persona has just been the my online persona ever since. Okay. You know, Naval ever always says, the best, the best outcome is to be famous, but nobody knows you. I I understand. And listen, you got good hair. So Yeah. You know, I'm not I'm not judging. Alright. Let's get into it. Alright. Yeah. So let me talk about paperclip. So paperclip, here, I can show you this dashboard. This would be the dashboard that I use to manage paperclip itself which is pretty involved. So, let's take a step back. So, the idea with paperclip is it is a tool for, the tagline is zero human companies. Now, I think that is maybe a bit aspirational. I'm sure you guys have seen tools like Pulsia where you, you you give …