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Suede Labs AI builds programmable IP and creator ownership infrastructure for AI-native media. Creators register a work, receive a verifiable Rights Passport, set machine-readable license terms, and get paid automatically in USDC when people or AI agents use it. Suede is operated by JC Investment Group LLC and led by founder Jason Colapietro.

Suede Labs AI is the ownership layer for the AI media era. AI made creating music and media nearly free, but the infrastructure for proving who made what, licensing it, and routing the money never scaled. Suede builds that layer: creators register a work and receive a verifiable Rights Passport, set license terms machines can read, and receive automatic USDC settlement on Base when a person or an autonomous agent uses their work. The ecosystem is unusually concrete for its stage: more than 30 live web surfaces, 3 paid x402 resources on Base mainnet, 8 iOS apps, and guitar communities that anchor its musician audience, all publicly mapped and live-verified at map.suedeai.ai. Suede Labs AI is operated by JC Investment Group LLC, founded in 2016, and led by founder and CEO Jason Colapietro, who performs as Johnny Suede.

Jason Colapietro is the founder and CEO of Suede Labs AI, where he builds ownership infrastructure for creators in the AI era. He performs and publishes music as Johnny Suede. He is the author of books including Stake Your Claim and the Signal Chain series on guitar history, a Forbes contributor, and he builds Suede in public, with every endpoint, app, and commit visible on GitHub. Suede's parent company, JC Investment Group LLC, was founded in 2016.

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