x402 endpoints
Production paid endpoints on Base mainnet covering music, video, voice, rights, licensing, and provenance.
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.
- 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
What we've shipped.
$ suede map
suede-labs/
├── platform/
│ ├── suedeai.ai creator ownership home
│ ├── app.suedeai.ai platform · dashboard · USDC payments
│ ├── agents.suedeai.ai agent studio · x402 publishing
│ ├── distro.suedeai.ai music distribution · 100+ DSPs
│ └── hub.suedeai.ai ecosystem directory
├── apps/ [8 live on App Store]
│ ├── Suede: AI Music Generator
│ ├── Suede Studio Guitar · Voice · Muse
│ ├── Suede Agents · Agentix
│ └── Suede Social (iOS) · FretPulse
├── protocol/
│ ├── x402/ 24 endpoints · Base mainnet · USDC
│ │ ├── music-gen $1.99/call
│ │ ├── video-gen $7.99/call
│ │ └── voice-gen $1.99/call (+21 more)
│ ├── SUEDE token 1B supply · Solana + Base
│ ├── rights-stack/ Base smart contracts · IP registry
│ └── acp/ Virtuals Producer Agent 019e3991
├── community/
│ ├── suede.social creator magazine · The Suede 100
│ ├── dna.suedeai.ai 409 rigs · 390 artists
│ ├── guitarhub.org guitar editorial hub
│ └── guitarchords.info chord + scale tools · SEO
└── publisher/
├── guitar.solutions Signal Chain · 5 editions · free
└── books · substack Stake Your Claim · jasoncolapietro.substack.com
suedeai.org
All surfaces live
Platform
Flagship Live
Suede Labs AI
Creator ownership platform: registration, provenance, licensing, USDC payments, and royalty rails.
suedeai.ai · app.suedeai.aiProtocol Live
Agent Studio
x402 endpoint catalog, agent publishing tools, and the Virtuals ACP Producer Agent on Base mainnet.
agents.suedeai.aiDistribution Live
Suede Distro
Music distribution to Spotify, Apple Music, and 100+ DSPs with royalty-aware splits.
distro.suedeai.aiDirectory Live
Suede Hub
Central ecosystem directory linking all Suede products, tools, and creator surfaces.
hub.suedeai.aiInfrastructure Live
Suede Launchpad
Fan trading, artist tokens, and vault infrastructure for creator economies.
app.suedeai.aiApps — 8 on App Store
Music · iOS Live
Suede: AI Music Generator
AI-powered music creation with ownership metadata baked in at generation time.
App StoreGuitar · iOS Live
Suede Studio Guitar
Electric guitar signal chain studio with tone mapping and AI rig analysis.
App StoreVoice · iOS Live
Suede Studio Voice
Voice rights capture, vocal provenance, and likeness-aware recording tools.
App StoreCreative · iOS Live
Suede Studio Muse
Daily creative constraints with owned outputs and provenance tracking.
App StoreAgents · iOS Live
Suede Agents
Native mobile interface for the Suede agent commerce and x402 ecosystem.
App StoreAgents · iOS Live
Agentix
Agent Studio companion — publish, manage, and monitor x402 agents from mobile.
App Store · agents.suedeai.aiSocial · iOS Live
Suede Social
Creator magazine and community on iOS and web. Home of The Suede 100.
App Store · suede.socialGuitar · iOS Live
FretPulse
Guitar-care companion with tuner, timing trainer, and AI rig analyzer.
App StoreProtocol & Chain
x402 Base Mainnet
x402 Protocol
24 production paid endpoints. Music $1.99 · Video $7.99 · Voice $1.99 + 21 more. Agents pay USDC.
app.suedeai.ai/.well-known/x402.jsonToken Solana · Base
SUEDE Token
Ecosystem token with 1B supply, live on Solana and Base. Listed on CoinGecko.
Solana · Base · CoinGeckoChain Live
On-chain Rights Stack
Base smart contracts for an IP registry, licensing templates, derivatives, and royalty distribution.
github.com/Suede-AIInfrastructure Live
Developer SDK
Codex and Claude agent skills, public GitHub indexes, and a Python SDK for x402 endpoints.
github.com/Suede-AICreative Live
Suede NFT Studio
Institutional-grade NFT creation and minting studio for music and creative IP.
app.suedeai.aiCommunity & Publishing
Archive Live
Suede DNA
Browsable archive of ~409 guitarist rigs and signal chains from 390 artists.
dna.suedeai.aiExplorer Live
Suede Cosmos
Music artist galaxy powered by Apple Music — explore artists, connections, and catalog.
app.suedeai.aiEditorial Live
Guitar Hub
Open guitar editorial — lessons, gear research, rights explainers, artist directory.
guitarhub.orgPublisher Free
Signal Chain Books
Five editions on electric guitar, signal chain, music rights, and creator ownership.
guitar.solutionsTools Free
Guitar Chords
Free chord library, scales, and music theory reference. Creator top-of-funnel SEO.
guitarchords.infoPublishing Live
Substack
Public writing on creator ownership, AI, music IP, and the rights infrastructure thesis.
jasoncolapietro.substack.com03 — 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.solutions07 — Work with us
Provenance and value routing cannot be retrofitted.
We work with investors, partners, and builders who understand why ownership infrastructure has to come first.