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Suede Labs AI

Investor Brief · 2026

The ownership layer
for the AI media era.

Founder & CEOJason Colapietro · Johnny Suede StageProof of execution, on-chain & live Live on Base mainnet

01 · The problem

Creation got cheap.
Ownership didn't scale.

AI drove the cost of making songs, images, video, and synthetic media toward zero. Value is leaving production — and the layer that proves authorship, carries rights, and routes payment is breaking.

Copyright protects ownership after distribution. AI-era media moves faster than that. Ownership has to be machine-readable, upstream, and portable across humans and agents.

02 · Why now

Three curves converging in 2026.

Supply shock

AI-media volume

Generated media is exploding across every format — provenance can't keep up by hand.

New buyers

Agent commerce

Autonomous agents now pay per call for content and APIs — they need machine-readable rights.

New rails

On-chain standards

ERC-8004 identity, reputation & validation mature into a usable ownership substrate.

The question isn't whether another tool can generate media. It's who owns the rails when that media has to be proven, licensed, and paid out.

Suede mark

03 · What Suede is

The agent-native rights layer.

Machine-readable proof of creation and on-chain royalty routing, so autonomous AI agents can discover, license, and pay for creative work: proof of creation → programmable IP → provenance → royalty routing → agent commerce. Live on Base mainnet — the rail agents transact through for IP.

$ pip install suede-ai  ·  one install, and an agent pays for owned work over x402. The whole rail behind a single call.

04 · Product

Shipped. Not slideware.

A working product surface — rights passports, licensing, royalty vaults, and an on-chain swap — live today at app.suedeai.ai, alongside the iOS Suede Studio line.

  • Artist royalty vaults & participation
  • Registry-backed proof of creation
  • Agent-native, per-call USDC settlement
Suede artist royalty vaults Suede swap, live

05 · The model

Four stages. One ownership spine.

01
Create

AI lowers the cost of making media of every kind.

02
Prove

Authorship, voice, likeness, consent & rights travel with the work.

Suede's wedge
03
Launch

Routes to funding, audience & ownership participation.

04
Earn

Payments, vaults, royalties, licensing & agent commerce turn output into income.

Everything downstream settles against the proof layer — and that layer is Suede.

06 · Built on / integrated / partnered

Standing on serious rails.

Settlement on Base · payments via Stripe & x402 · oracles via Chainlink · cross-chain via LayerZero · agent commerce via Virtuals · agent payments via AgentCash. Google Cloud Partner · ecosystem partner ChainGPT.

07 · Traction

Real, on-chain, shipped.

22
x402 paid endpoints
3
ERC-8004 contracts · Base mainnet
23
on-chain agent identities
4
iOS apps shipped
  • Live  ERC-8004 identity, reputation & validation on Base mainnet — agents pay per call in USDC.
  • Producer by Suede Labs — a hireable Virtuals ACP agent for music, video & ACP/x402 consulting.
  • Every contract & transaction is public and verifiable on Base mainnet — proof without trust.

08 · Market

A settlement layer under a trillion-dollar economy.

2024 · $205B 2033 · $1.35T

Global creator economy · ~23% CAGR (Grand View Research, 2025)

TAM · creator economy
$1.35T

by 2033, from $205B in 2024 — the media our rails sit under.

SAM · rights + royalties
~$19B

IP-management + DRM software (~13% CAGR) plus $13.6B/yr in royalty collections.

Tailwind · AI + agents
$385B

agent-driven commerce GMV by 2030; GenAI content → $80B by 2030.

Sources: Grand View Research · Fortune Business Insights · IFPI / CISAC · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley (2024–2025) — full citations on the final slide.

09 · Business model

Multiple rails — several already in production.

Live

Agent commerce (x402)

Per-call USDC pricing across 22 endpoints; no-account agent payments.

Live

Credits & subscription

Creator-side generation & workflow access via credits / plans.

Rail

Vault / royalty take-rate

Participation & settlement fees on royalty and ownership flows.

Rail

Registry & licensing

Proof-of-creation, licensing templates & verification fees.

Jason Colapietro, Founder and CEO of Suede Labs AI

10 · Founder

Jason Colapietro

Founder & CEO, Suede Labs AI · "Johnny Suede." Published author of three books; solo operator behind the shipped Suede ecosystem.

"The internet upgraded access. AI upgraded creation. The next layer has to upgrade ownership."

Stake Your Claim

Author of three books, including Stake Your Claim — the thesis on AI ownership, authorship & durable creative rights.

11 · The ask

Raising to deepen the rails and scale what already ships.

Round size, instrument and terms shared directly — book an intro call below. Suede Labs AI is an early-stage company building the programmable-IP and creator-ownership layer for the AI media era.

Use of funds

Engineering

Ownership & settlement rails — registry, proof, royalty routing.

Use of funds

Distribution

Creator & agent acquisition across the shipped surfaces.

Use of funds

Standards & registry

ERC-8004 / x402 depth, compliance & system-of-record.

Book an intro call →

suedeai.org/investors · info@suedeai.org · Confidential — do not distribute.

Appendix · Market citations

Every market figure, sourced.

MarketFigureSource · year
Creator economy$205.25B (2024) → $1.35T by 2033 · 23.3% CAGRGrand View Research · 2025
GenAI content creation$14.8B (2024) → $80.12B by 2030 · 32.5% CAGRGrand View Research · 2024
IP-management software$14.06B (2025) → $42.53B by 2034 · 13.1% CAGRFortune Business Insights · 2025
Digital rights management$5.35B (2024) → $19.15B by 2034 · 13.6% CAGRMarket.us · 2024
Songwriter / publisher royalties$13.63B collected (2024, +7.2%)CISAC via MBW · 2025
Music copyright value$47.2B (2024)Pivotal Economics / Will Page · 2024
Agentic commerce$190B–$385B US GMV by 2030Morgan Stanley · 2025

Suede on-chain proof verifiable at app.suedeai.ai/.well-known/x402.json & Base mainnet (ERC-8004).