Founder and CEO of Suede Labs AI · Founder and Managing Member of JC Investment Group · published author · USPTO patent pending 63/947,120
Jason Colapietro builds systems that help creators record authorship, define rights, license work, and route revenue as media moves between people, platforms, and AI agents. At Suede Labs AI, his work spans programmable IP, provenance, registry-backed media, royalty routing, and agentic commerce over x402 and ERC-8004, with music and likeness as early use cases.
Jason is also known publicly as Jay Colapietro and publishes as Johnny Suede.
Personal site · Johnny Suede · Suede Labs AI · Founder profile · Writing · LinkedIn · X
- Creator ownership: creation evidence, provenance, rights metadata, licensing, and royalty routing.
- Registry-backed media and likeness: dated records and machine-readable consent terms for creative work, voice, face, name, and persona.
- Agent commerce: public agent metadata and x402 payments for machine-readable, pay-per-call workflows.
- Music-first creator tools: creation, distribution, guitar, and catalog experiences connected to an ownership layer.
About 30 websites and 8 iOS apps. Full index at hub.suedeai.ai; the operating map, entity by entity, is at map.suedeai.ai.
| Project | What it does |
|---|---|
| Suede Labs AI | The product front door. Creator ownership infrastructure for registering work and likeness, documenting provenance, licensing rights, and routing revenue. |
| Suede Studio · Suede Distro | Make music with AI and keep the master; release finished work to 100+ streaming services. |
| Suede IP Registry | Public registry for creation evidence: wallet-signed claims, file fingerprints, and dated records on Base and Avalanche. |
| Suede Agent Studio · Agentix | Build agents visually and ship them as paid per-call services over x402; track what they earn. |
| Suede Scan | Shows what AI search engines say about a business, with screenshots, then repairs the site so machines can read it. |
| Strumly · Suede Muse · FretPulse | Musician tools — a 24/7 guitar coach, a creative training companion, and a guitar-care app. |
| Suede Social · Suede DNA | Creator community and gear magazine, plus an archive of 400+ guitarists' rigs and signal chains. |
| Suede Creator Skills | 71 open-source agent skills for Claude Code and Codex, covering rights, provenance, releases, evaluation, design, engineering, and go-to-market work. |
Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer · Proof as Infrastructure · Stake Your Claim · The Signal Chain
TechBullion, May 2026 — Suede Labs AI launches iOS apps for musicians.
- Public IP registry — wallet-signed creator claims, file fingerprints, contributor records, and public timestamps; evidence, not legal title.
- x402 manifest — currently advertised paid API resources in a machine-readable catalog.
- A2A agent card — public agent identity, capabilities, and discovery metadata.
Nine changes merged into eight projects I do not maintain, including a catalog graph fix in Backstage. Full list.