Suede Labs AI · Investor Presentation · July 2026

The ownership layer is already live.

Programmable IP and creator ownership infrastructure for AI-native media — proof of creation, machine-readable licensing, royalty routing, and agent commerce.

●  Every claim in this deck answered a live check on July 3, 2026. Verify it yourself: map.suedeai.ai

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The problem

AI made creation free. It didn’t make ownership work.

Machines now produce media at industrial scale — with no scaled way to prove who made what, license it, or route the money. The creation layer exploded. The ownership layer never shipped.

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Why now — three curves crossing at once

This window doesn’t stay open.

01 · Volume

AI media output is compounding. Every new file is an unclaimed asset.

02 · Agents

Autonomous agents are becoming buyers. They pay machines, not invoices.

03 · Standards

x402 and ERC-8004 just matured. The rails exist — someone will own them.

The proof layer for AI media is still unowned. That is a timing fact, not a slogan.

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What Suede is

Create. Prove. License. Earn.

Prove

Upload a work, get a Rights Passport — a verifiable record of authorship.

License

Machine-readable terms agents can discover, negotiate, and accept.

Earn

Per-call USDC settlement on Base. Royalties route by the split, automatically.

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The proof — verified live, July 3, 2026

We didn’t write a roadmap. We shipped the map.

30+live web surfacesevery address answered a live check
22x402-paid endpointsUSDC per call, live on Base mainnet
8iOS apps on the App Storestudio, social, agents, guitar, voice
3ERC-8004 contractsdeployed on Base mainnet
23on-chain agent identitiesregistered and addressable
5published booksplus the free Signal Chain series
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The structure

One owner. One graph. No loose ends.

Jason Colapietrofounder — publishes and performs as “Johnny Suede”
owns
JC Investment Group LLCparent entity, founded 2016 — holds all 19 domains and every property
operates
Suede Labs AIthe operating company — three front doors, six product shelves, one registry
ships
30+ live surfacesapps, endpoints, communities, publications — a moat made of shipped software
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Agent commerce — not a demo

Agents already pay Suede in USDC.

Autonomous agents discover the catalog, accept license terms, and settle $1.99–$7.99 per call on Base — no human in the loop. A Suede producer agent is hireable on the Virtuals platform today.

While the category writes whitepapers, Suede clears payments.

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Business model — four revenue rails

Two rails live. Two loaded.

Agent commerceper-call USDC pricing on paid endpointslive
Credits & subscriptionscreator plans — e.g. Distro at $7.99/molive
Vault & royalty take-ratea slice of settled royaltiesnext
Registry & licensing feesverification and rights transactionsnext
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The market

A $1.35T creator economy with no proof layer.

$1.35Tcreator economy by 2033projected market size
~$19Brights & royalties SAMthe slice Suede’s rails address

Ecosystem rails: Base · Stripe · Google Cloud · Chainlink · LayerZero · Virtuals

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The founder

One founder, shipping at fleet speed.

Jason Colapietro — “Johnny Suede.” Founder & CEO. Published author and Forbes contributor. Every commit, endpoint, and release is public. The receipts are the pitch.

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The ask

The rails are live. The layer is unclaimed. The window is now.

Raising to deepen the ownership and settlement rails and scale what is already earning. Round size and terms shared directly.

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