Riley Personal Brand Paperclip

This folder runs an isolated Paperclip instance for Riley's personal brand. It does not use the global ~/.paperclip/default instance and does not touch the separate Telegram or Claude setup.

Brand Alignment

This workspace is for Riley Vahed's personal brand and The Creator Fastlane.

Default positioning:

• Riley first
• Creator Fastlane as the public brand
• Vision Seek as supporting proof, not the main focus
• creator infrastructure and operator leverage as the strategic center

Canonical voice and positioning files:

• AGENTS.md
• riley-creator-fastlane-brand.md
• linkedin-writer.md
• company-strategy-layer.md
• 2026-03-14-x-signal-memo.md

Start

./run-paperclip.sh

UI: http://127.0.0.1:3101

Current Instance

• Company: Riley Personal Brand
• Company ID: 8444b6e9-2073-45f3-93ec-0bd2a23ad9ec
• Goal: Build a Riley-first personal-brand engine around Creator Fastlane that centers creator infrastructure, operator leverage, YouTube-native business intelligence, and qualified opportunities.
• Port: 3101
• Embedded Postgres port: 54330

Production Status

Production status as of 2026-03-15:

• Hetzner VPS is live and running the company 24/7
• Public IPv4: 46.224.151.40
• Public bot hostname: bot.founderfastlane.com
• Paperclip server: private on 127.0.0.1:3101
• Bot bridge: private on 127.0.0.1:8787
• Telegram webhook: https://bot.founderfastlane.com/telegram/webhook
• Telegram bot: @Creatorfastlane_bot
• LINE: not configured yet
• Bot artifacts: outputs/telegram

Security state:

• SSH is key-only
• Root SSH login is disabled
• riley is the app user, not the sudo shortcut
• paperclip-admin is the human admin account
• fail2ban is active
• unattended upgrades are active

VPS Access

Open the private VPS UI tunnel from this Mac:

./scripts/open_paperclip_vps_ui.sh

Close the local tunnel:

./scripts/close_paperclip_vps_ui.sh

When the tunnel is open, the UI is available at:

• http://127.0.0.1:33101

Direct server access:

• SSH user: paperclip-admin
• Host: 46.224.151.40
• App deploy path: /opt/the-creator-fastlane-company
• Runtime state: /home/riley/.paperclip-worktrees

Resume State

Latest known-good state as of 2026-03-15:

• Paperclip health: ok
• Real Research Analyst -> Brand Director chain completed successfully
• Fresh research memo: 2026-03-15-x-bookmarks-refresh-memo.md
• Fresh strategy brief: 2026-03-15-brand-priorities-from-x-refresh.md
• Fresh X drafts: 2026-03-15-x-post-options.md

Most recent strategic signal:

• skill graph is a stronger frame than generic AI workflow
• You don't have a content problem. You have a systems problem. is a winning hook
• micro-authority is a strong positioning contrast
• concept splicing is a high-signal YouTube teaching angle

Fast restart tomorrow:

./run-paperclip.sh

Then open:

• http://127.0.0.1:3101/RIL/dashboard

If using the VPS instead of local-only Paperclip:

./scripts/open_paperclip_vps_ui.sh

Then open:

• http://127.0.0.1:33101/RIL/dashboard

Seeded Structure

• Projects:
  • Long-Form YouTube
  • Content Repurposing
  • Lead Gen / Offer Content
• Agents:
  • Brand Director (claude_local)
  • Research Analyst (claude_local)
  • Newsletter Writer (claude_local)
  • Distribution + Analytics (claude_local)
  • LinkedIn Tastemaker (claude_local)
  • LinkedIn Writer (claude_local)
  • X Writer (claude_local)
• Starter issues:
  • RIL-1 through RIL-6

Useful Commands

Open the production UI through the SSH tunnel:

./scripts/open_paperclip_vps_ui.sh

Check public bot health:

curl https://bot.founderfastlane.com/healthz

Check Telegram webhook state:

source .bot-bridge.env
curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/getWebhookInfo"

Pull VPS outputs into this repo and the Obsidian/iCloud copy:

./scripts/sync_vps_outputs_to_obsidian.sh

Install a background Mac sync every 5 minutes:

./scripts/install_obsidian_sync_launch_agent.sh

Install the background YouTube research worker every 5 minutes:

./scripts/install_youtube_research_launch_agent.sh

List issues:

source .paperclip/.env
npx paperclipai issue list -C 8444b6e9-2073-45f3-93ec-0bd2a23ad9ec

List agents:

source .paperclip/.env
npx paperclipai agent list -C 8444b6e9-2073-45f3-93ec-0bd2a23ad9ec

Generate local agent exports without installing global skills:

source .paperclip/.env
npx paperclipai agent local-cli newsletter-writer -C 8444b6e9-2073-45f3-93ec-0bd2a23ad9ec --no-install-skills

Notes

• Repo-local config lives in .paperclip/config.json.
• Repo-local env lives in .paperclip/.env.
• Anthropic env lives in .anthropic.env.
• OpenAI env lives in .openai.env.
• X research config lives in .x.env.
• Bot bridge env lives in .bot-bridge.env when you want Telegram/LINE control.
• X writer workflow lives in x-writer-workflow.md.
• Bot bridge setup lives in paperclip-bot-bridge.md.
• Telegram bot commands now include /commands, /runs, /ytresearch, /competitor, /publish, /assign, and /content.
• /content newsletter | Topic | Optional brief now routes to the newsletter-first writer.
• youtube_research_worker.py is the Mac-side executor for /ytresearch. It runs yt-dlp locally, pushes the resulting YouTube URLs into NotebookLM as real video sources, asks NotebookLM for source-grounded synthesis, writes outputs into outputs/research/youtube, mirrors them into the Obsidian copy, and syncs the results back to the VPS.
• /competitor https://site.com | Optional focus creates a competitor-research issue for Research Analyst. The prompt now tells the agent to use katana first when it is available and save the memo under outputs/research/competitors/.
• /publish outputs/path/file.md | share|private uses scripts/sharehtml_publish.py and the sharehtml CLI to publish a selected output once a Cloudflare worker URL has been configured.
• scripts/audible_quote_pack.py can generate a local Audible quote pack under inputs/audible/ and optionally sync it to the VPS so the newsletter writer can use saved bookmarks or notes from your current book library.
• scripts/audible_book_pack.py is the heavier fallback when annotations are thin. It downloads the audiobook locally, transcribes it with Whisper on this Mac, writes a transcript-backed book pack into inputs/audible/, and gives the newsletter writer real book-side passages even when Audible only returns last_heard.
• install_youtube_research_launch_agent.sh installs a macOS launchd job that polls Paperclip for pending YouTube research issues every 60 seconds by default.
• Hetzner deploy notes live under ops/hetzner/.
• run-paperclip.sh automatically sources .paperclip/.env, .anthropic.env, .openai.env, and .x.env when present.
• run-paperclip-bot-bridge.sh does the same, plus .bot-bridge.env.
• sync_vps_outputs_to_obsidian.sh pulls outputs/ and deliverables/ from the VPS and mirrors them into the Obsidian copy on this Mac.
• install_obsidian_sync_launch_agent.sh installs a macOS launchd job that runs the sync every 300 seconds by default.
• Runtime state lives under ~/.paperclip-worktrees/instances/riley-personal-brand.
• Company budget is set to $300/month (30000 cents) for a conservative start.
• New agents still require board approval.
• The Obsidian/iCloud copy should stay in sync for backup, but do not store live secrets in iCloud unless you explicitly want that risk.