Getting started

Before you start

You need two things: a finished or in-progress creative file you actually made, and about ten minutes. A crypto wallet is useful for the payment side but not required to begin. Suede's job is to make the rights part feel like saving a file, not filing paperwork.

Step 1: Create an account

Go to app.suedeai.ai and sign up. This is the Workspace, the hub for your library, registrations, licensing, and rewards. One account carries across the Suede surfaces.

Step 2: Register your first work

From the Workspace, open Studio and choose Register, or go directly to the IP Registry at ip.suedeai.ai. Upload the file. Suede computes an exact-file fingerprint and records a timestamp, which together form the core of your provenance record: this file, in this form, at this moment, claimed by you.

A few practical notes:

• Register the version that matters. If the song is still changing, you can register early demos too; more records is more evidence, not less.
• Keep your source material. Stems, session files, voice memos, and notes are your proof of human authorship, which matters for copyright in AI-assisted work. Suede records the claim; your archive backs it up.
• Register before you post. The order of operations is the whole point. A timestamp that predates public release is worth far more than one that follows it.

Step 3: Add contributors and splits

If anyone else contributed, add them now, with their share. This is the split sheet moment, and doing it at registration rather than after a sync offer arrives is the difference between a two-minute step and a six-month dispute. Splits defined here are applied to payments that route through Suede automatically.

Step 4: Set permissions

Choose what the world is allowed to do with the work. Permissions are published in machine-readable form, which means both a human reading your page and a software agent evaluating your catalog get the same answer. You can be permissive, restrictive, or priced, and you can say something explicit about AI training instead of leaving it ambiguous.

Step 5: Decide where the work lives

From here the paths branch, and none of them are mandatory:

• Share it on Suede Social so the post carries its rights context.
• List it in the Workspace marketplace or licensing section if you want it licensable.
• Open a vault if you want to raise supporter capital against future revenue, with terms published up front.
• Expose it to agent commerce so autonomous buyers can license it over x402 and pay in USDC on Base.

What you have when you are done

A registered work with a fingerprint and timestamp, a contributor list with splits, published permissions, and payment routing that applies to every transaction that touches the work. That is the unit everything else in Suede builds on.

Where to go next

• Read what is Suede for the thesis behind the steps.
• Read how it fits together for the system view.
• Product-specific docs: Suede Social, IP Registry, Agent Studio.