Paperclip Vision

Paperclip Vision

**A Claude Code skill that interviews your founder and writes the constitution your AI company needs to run itself.**

Paperclip Vision conducts a structured strategic interview and produces two documents that let an AI-run company operate autonomously — without the founder needing to be in the loop for day-to-day decisions.

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What It Does

Most AI agent setups fail not because the agents are bad, but because they have no clear mandate. They don't know what they're allowed to do, who to escalate to, or what the company is actually trying to accomplish.

Paperclip Vision solves this at the source. It interviews the founder, extracts their strategic intent, and translates it into two machine-readable documents:

Document	Purpose
VISION.md	The company constitution. Mission, revenue model, target customer, growth strategy, org structure, CEO mandate, and guiding principles. The CEO agent reads this every heartbeat.
CEO_BOOTSTRAP.md	One-time activation instructions for the CEO agent. What to do first, in what order, and what to generate so the company can run itself.

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How It Works

1. Scans Your Project First

Before asking a single question, the skill reads your working directory — agent profiles, heartbeat files, existing vision documents, phase plans, tech stack, ops files — and uses what it finds to pre-fill context, skip redundant questions, and make the interview feel specific to your company.

2. Structured Founder Interview

A 16-question interview across six sections:

• The Big Picture — ultimate goal and 12-month destination
• Revenue & Customers — pricing model, revenue target, ideal customer
• Growth & Marketing — channels, budget, and sales model
• Product Direction — current status and roadmap
• CEO Autonomy — what the CEO can do alone vs. what needs your approval
• Vision & Identity — companies you admire, success signals, non-negotiables

Questions use sing