Stop Hiring, Start Orchestrating: Running an AI Agent Company with Paperclip on Railway
The article discusses the concept of running a one-person company where AI agents handle most of the work. It introduces Paperclip, a platform that orchestrates these AI agents to manage tasks autonomously. The idea is to create fully operational companies with minimal human intervention, leveraging AI for various roles and responsibilities.
- ▪Paperclip allows users to define a company with a mission, budget, and agent personas, which are then managed by AI agents.
- ▪Each agent operates on a schedule, completing assigned tasks and reporting results without human oversight.
- ▪The platform is evolving into a comprehensive orchestration tool for businesses that rely on autonomous agents instead of traditional staffing.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/alphasec/stop-hiring-start-orchestrating-running-an-ai-agent-company-with-paperclip-on-railway-41bn |
| Publication time | Sat, 16 May 2026 09:02:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-16T09:10:17.965Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-16T09:10:17.965Z |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3890949) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Alphasec Posted on May 16 • Originally published at alphasec.io Stop Hiring, Start Orchestrating: Running an AI Agent Company with Paperclip on Railway #ai #selfhosted #docker #opensource This is a cross-post from alphasec.io. Original post here. The idea of a one-person company isn't new. What's new though is the idea of a one-person company where the person isn't doing most of the actual work. AI agents are.
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