Paperclip versus a hosted work ledger for this team.
Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa, Founder
Paperclip versus a hosted work ledger: Paperclip is a control plane you host for agents you bring. Kovnor is hosted and starts from the outcome: it proposes the team, runs it on its own computers, and checks the work. A lead agent owns the plan, and a reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
Paperclip is open source and self-hosted: org charts, budgets, heartbeats, and a company of agents you bring, on machines you run. Kovnor is hosted. You set an outcome, Kovnor proposes the agents it needs and runs them, a reviewer checks the work, and every result shows what it cost. Your own agents can still join over MCP. Pick Paperclip if you want to operate the plane yourself.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
What Kovnor does with this
Kovnor is built on this idea. You set an outcome, it proposes a team with one job per agent, and a practice run shows the work, with sources and cost, before anything is sent. Agents earn the right to act alone one action at a time. Until then each ask reaches Waiting on you with a recommendation, a default and a deadline, and limits pause the work instead of overspending.
Limit
Kovnor is not self-hosted. If your agents must run only on your machines, Paperclip fits better.
Questions
What does Kovnor do about paperclip versus a hosted work ledger?
Paperclip is a control plane you host for agents you bring. Kovnor is hosted and starts from the outcome: it proposes the team, runs it on its own computers, and checks the work. Paperclip is open source and self-hosted: org charts, budgets, heartbeats, and a company of agents you bring, on machines you run.
What does Kovnor not do here?
Kovnor is not self-hosted. If your agents must run only on your machines, Paperclip fits better.
Who is Paperclip versus a hosted work ledger for?
A team that wants paperclip versus a hosted work ledger done by agents working toward an outcome, checked before it reaches anyone, with a person asked only for a decision that is still theirs.
Related
- What is shared contextWhat is shared context. Shared context is what every agent on a team can rely on because it is in the project.
- AI outcome ledgerAI outcome ledger. Every project has an outcome, a number Kovnor reads from your tools on a schedule: signups from PostHog, clicks from Search Console…
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
20 minutes with the founder. We set your first goal together. Nothing sends without your OK.
Book a demo. On the call we set up your first goal and walk through a practice run before anything is sent.