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The first task should be tiny, visible, and easy to grade so you can debug the system instead of guessing.
Match adapters to workload instead of trying to standardize every agent on one provider too early.
Keep the first agent narrow, cheap, and easy to evaluate before you add specialists.
The best org charts are small and legible. If you cannot explain the reporting chain in one sentence, it is too complex.
Heartbeats should match the speed of the work. Faster is not automatically better.
Focus on the few dashboard signals that actually tell you whether your company is healthy.
Use the logs to find the real failure point before you touch prompts, budgets, or org structure.
Cost controls are easier to add early than to retrofit after a noisy multi-agent setup is already running.
Learn the control plane and agent plane mental model so the rest of Paperclip stops feeling magical.
Once one agent works, grow the system by adding one new variable at a time.
Go from install to a working single-agent company with one small config and one real task.