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AI Agentic Platform

The only AI agentic platform built for creators, not platforms.

While AI agents are buying, licensing, and remixing creative work at scale, Suede is the only platform where every transaction pays the artist and records their ownership.

Architecture

What makes it agentic

Most "AI platforms" are dashboards. Suede is machine-readable infrastructure — every rights record and royalty path is accessible by autonomous agents over HTTP.

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x402 paid endpoints

Any AI agent hits a Suede endpoint, gets a 402 Payment Required header with a USDC payment specification, settles on-chain, and re-requests. The transaction executes without human intervention — the artist's terms are enforced in the protocol layer.

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USDC settlement

Royalties route in USDC directly to creator-defined wallet splits. No invoice cycles, no platform holdback, no 30-day delays. Payment clears at the moment of use — as fast as the Base network confirms.

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Creator-defined splits

Artists configure their own split rules: co-writers, collaborators, engineers, publishers. Once set, the splits execute automatically on every transaction — whether initiated by a human licensee or an AI agent running at 3 a.m.

Positioning

Built for artists — not just developers

Every other platform in this space serves someone else first. Suede is the only one that starts with the artist.

Not artist-facing

Story Protocol

Developer-layer tech

A developer SDK for building IP applications. No artist-facing UI, no royalty routing, no agentic payment layer. Requires engineering resources most creators don't have and can't hire.

Not artist-facing

Patchbay

Label & manager tool

An admin console for the label side of the business. Helps managers track deals and royalties they receive. Does nothing for the artist's ownership or their ability to transact with AI agents.

The only artist-facing platform

Suede Labs AI

The agentic platform for artists

Artists register their own works, define their own splits, and publish their own terms — in minutes, from a browser. Agents pay them directly. No label, no engineer, no intermediary required.

Live proof

Not a roadmap. Already shipped.

Every proof point below is live on mainnet or resolvable over HTTP today.

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Contracts on Base mainnet

Identity, Reputation, and Validation registries deployed on Base mainnet. Every registered work gets a provenance record that travels with the IP — not stored on a platform that can delete it.

Open registry →
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Live x402 paid endpoints

Seventeen production endpoints that respond to AI agent requests with x402 payment headers. Any agent in the world can discover, negotiate, pay for, and use Suede-registered works right now.

View agent.json →
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Registered works on-chain

Real creative works — songs, not test tokens — with on-chain registration, creator-defined splits, and x402 licensing terms. These works earn. Every transaction routes to the creator.

See registered works →
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Machine-readable discovery

agent-card.json and x402 discovery live at app.suedeai.ai/.well-known/. Any standards-compliant AI agent can crawl Suede, find the payment spec, and transact — zero human setup on the agent side.

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FAQ

Common questions

What is an AI agentic platform for artists?

An AI agentic platform for artists is infrastructure that lets autonomous AI agents discover, license, use, and pay for creative work — automatically, on the artist's terms. Suede is built around x402-based paid endpoints and on-chain rights records so every AI interaction with a creator's work triggers a payment and records a provenance event, without requiring the artist to be present for each transaction.

How is Suede different from other music IP platforms?

Competitor platforms fall into two buckets: developer-layer tech (Story Protocol) built for engineers, not artists, and admin tools (Patchbay) built for managers and labels. Suede is the only platform built for the artist themselves — giving each creator a programmable IP identity, on-chain registry, and USDC royalty routing that works autonomously with AI agents.

How do artists get paid when AI agents use their work?

Suede exposes 17 live x402-gated endpoints. An AI agent that wants to license or access a work makes an HTTP request, receives a 402 Payment Required response with a USDC payment header, settles on-chain, and re-requests with the payment receipt. The royalty routes instantly to creator-defined splits. No intermediary, no monthly payout cycle, no platform tax.

What does 'freeing artists' mean in practice?

It means your IP works for you while you sleep. Your registered works carry provenance that survives every remix, platform, and AI training run. Your rights are executable by machines, not just readable by lawyers. And every transaction — whether initiated by a human label or an autonomous AI agent — pays you first, on your terms, recorded on Base mainnet.

Your work is already being used by AI.

The only question is whether you own the record and get paid for it. Start with the studio — register a work, define your splits, and publish your terms in minutes.

Start with the studio