00 — Suede Labs

Creative rails for the AI era.

Suede Labs builds the ownership infrastructure for the agentic internet: provenance, licensing, payments, distribution, and value flow for creators.

Suede Labs investor thesis: own your work, license it on your terms, get paid everywhere.

Read the thesis See the ecosystem

Company: Suede Labs
Layer: Creative ownership
Chain: Base mainnet

Suede Console Connected

> suede register --work "Night Circuit" --creator @mara
OK proof-of-creation written  sd_9f3a1c

> suede license sd_9f3a1c --use commercial --term 3y
OK license created  lic_96e2  CC-BY-4.0

> suede pay --license lic_96e2 --method usdc
OK payment settled: $250.00 USDC

> suede route --license lic_96e2 --to creator
OK value routed to @mara: $212.50

Own · License · Settle Verified on-chain

01 — Thesis

The next internet will be agentic, creative, and owned.

AI systems will create, remix, and transact at scale. Without new infrastructure, value will be extracted, rights will be opaque, and creators will be disconnected from the upside.

Suede Labs is building the ownership layer that makes a better internet possible: verifiable authorship, machine-readable licenses, rights-aware payments, and distribution paths that route value back to the people who create.

02 — Ecosystem

The full map.

Six live surfaces. One protocol layer. Five published books. A hireable agent on Base mainnet. This is what Suede Labs has shipped.

Product

suedeai.ai

Suede AI

Creator ownership home. Proof of creation, IP vault, licensing, and royalty routing.

Live app.suedeai.ai

Suede App

Full product surface. Create, register, protect, and monetize creative work. Three iOS apps in the App Store.

Live agents.suedeai.ai

Agent Studio

Build and publish paid agent endpoints. x402 publishing layer for developers who want to monetize work at the protocol level.

Live

Community & Content

suede.social

Suede Social

Creator community hub. iOS app and web. Sign in with Apple. Powered by Supabase and Capacitor.

Live guitarhub.org

Guitar Hub

Open guitar editorial hub. Directory and front door to the Suede Social creator community. dofollow to suedeai.ai.

Live guitarchords.info

Guitar Chords

Free guitar tools SEO property. Chord library, tools, and light Suede integration. Passes dofollow links to suedeai.ai.

Live

Protocol & Publisher

x402

x402 Endpoint Catalog

24 production paid endpoints on Base mainnet. Music, video, voice, rights, licensing, provenance. Agents pay in USDC — no account or API key needed.

Base mainnet ACP

Producer Agent

Hireable Virtuals ACP agent for music, video, and x402/ACP consulting workflows. Agent ID: 019e3991-374d-75f3-a6b8-17ff309b4cd2

Virtuals ACP 5 books

The Signal Chain

Five published editions on electric guitar, music rights, and creator ownership. Free at guitar.solutions. Publisher: Johnny Suede Press.

Published

Infrastructure stack

Five layers. One ownership story.

Each layer enables the next. Identity anchors rights. Rights anchor payments. Payments anchor distribution.

Identity & Provenance

SHA-256 content hash, IPFS storage, on-chain timestamp. Cryptographic proof of authorship that travels with the work forever.

SHA-256IPFSBaseSupabase

Rights & Licensing

Machine-readable license templates. Solidity smart contracts on Base. Cross-chain delivery via LayerZero V2 OApp (Base ↔ Solana).

SolidityBaseLayerZero V2License registry

Payments & Settlement

Global payment rail: Stripe, USDC on Base, Solana wallet adapters, and x402 per-call agent payments. Transparent audit trail on every transaction.

x402USDCStripeBaseSolana

Royalty Routing

Automated royalty splits tied to registered rights metadata. Value flows to creators on every use, not to intermediaries.

Royalty registrySupabaseWebhooks

Agentic Commerce

24 x402 paid endpoints for discovery, clearance, fulfillment, and reporting. AI agents transact creative work at internet scale without intermediaries.

x402ACPVirtualsRenderVercel

03 — Agentic commerce

Infrastructure for the agentic economy.

Agents need rails. Suede provides the primitives and protocols to transact creative work with clarity, consent, and compensation.

Discover work with verifiable provenance
Negotiate terms and licenses programmatically
Execute transactions and settle payments
Deliver assets and track usage
Distribute value to contributors

Explore the docs

Suede Console Connected

> suede find --type music --query "cinematic hook" --limit 3
OK 3 results

id          title              creator       license       price
sd_9f3a...  Night Circuit      @mara         CC-BY-4.0     $80.00
sd_d81e...  Glass Voltage      @west         Custom        $250.00
sd_77cc...  Signal Choir       @lin          CC-BY-SA      $120.00

> suede license sd_d81e --use commercial --term 3y
OK license created

> suede pay --license lic_96e --method usdc
OK payment settled: $250.00 USDC

> suede deliver lic_96e --format original --url
OK https://assets.suedeai.org/d/Tc9ale2...

04 — Proof

A live stack, not a slide.

Every number below is a live deployment, a public record, or a verifiable artifact. No vaporware. No slides only.

x402 endpoints

Production paid endpoints on Base mainnet covering music, video, voice, rights, licensing, and provenance.

iOS apps shipped

Inspiration, Guitar, and Voice — three live Suede AI apps in the App Store, publicly downloadable.

Books published

The Signal Chain series: five editions on electric guitar, music rights, and creator ownership. Free at guitar.solutions.

ACP

Hireable agent

Producer by Suede Labs registered on Virtuals ACP for music, video, and x402 consulting. ID: 019e3991.

Press: TechBullion (May 2026) · Forbes contributor
Chain: Base mainnet · Solana · LayerZero V2 OApp (Base ↔ Solana)
Entity: Crunchbase · LinkedIn/Suede-Labs-AI · GitHub/Suede-AI
Payments: Stripe · USDC · x402 per-call · Solana wallet adapters
Infra: Vercel · Render · Supabase · IPFS / Pinata · Wagmi / viem
Parent co.: JC Investment Group LLC — founded 2016 · Crunchbase · LinkedIn
Updated: June 2026

05 — Founder

Jason Colapietro is building the ownership layer creators need.

Jason Colapietro is a published author, Forbes contributor, and the operator behind Suede Labs. His work connects creator ownership, music rights, voice and likeness rights, programmable IP, licensing, and agent-readable commerce into one infrastructure story.

Full bio Read the thesis book

06 — 5x Published Author

The Signal Chain.

Jason Colapietro spent a decade mapping the full electric guitar signal chain before building the ownership infrastructure for the agentic era. The books came first. The company is the proof of work.

AI companies are training on decades of recorded music. Creators deserve a receipt for that training data the same way they deserve a receipt for a sync license. The question is not whether AI will pay creators. The question is who built the infrastructure to route the payment.

Jason Colapietro, Founder & CEO, Suede Labs

The music industry forgot that records — the physical kind — were also rights records. The ledger and the disc were the same object. Digital stripped the rights layer away and called it progress. The blockchain puts it back, and this time the ledger is public and the artist holds the key.

Jason Colapietro, Founder & CEO, Suede Labs

Standard Edition

The Signal Chain

A player's history of amplifiers, effects, and the pursuit of electric guitar tone. 46 chapters covering every significant amp and effect in electric guitar history — from the physics of the pickup to the future of modeling.

Read free at guitar.solutions

Deluxe Edition

The Signal Chain: Deluxe

The expanded edition with additional chapters, extended gear histories, and deeper technical breakdowns of circuits, signal paths, and the engineering decisions behind iconic tones.

Read free at guitar.solutions

Workbook Edition

The Signal Chain: Workbook

A hands-on companion for players who want to apply the signal chain framework to their own rig: diagnosing tone, selecting gear, and documenting your own chain from string to speaker.

Read free at guitar.solutions

07 — Work with us

The agentic internet needs ownership built in.

We work with investors, technical partners, and builders who understand that provenance, rights, and value routing cannot be bolted on after the fact.

Investors

Request materials and learn about the Suede Labs raise for creator ownership and programmable IP infrastructure.

Investor brief

Technical partners

Protocol integrations, distribution partnerships, and infrastructure licensing. Rights rails, payment flows, and agent endpoints.

Get in touch

Agents & developers

Start with the x402 endpoint catalog or build on Agent Studio. No account or API key needed to make your first agent payment.

Agent Studio x402 catalog

Visit Suede AI → Open the platform → Ecosystem hub → info@suedeai.org →