The ownership layer for the AI media era.

Creation got cheap. Ownership didn't scale.

AI lowered the cost of making songs, images, video, and campaigns to near zero. Value moves to the layer that turns work into something durable: authorship, consent, provenance, rights, and payment. The question isn't whether another tool can generate media. It's who owns the rails when creative work has to be proven, licensed, distributed, and paid out across people and AI agents.

Shipped, and checkable

• Paid agent demand, on-chain. Our agent on Virtuals ACP (v1) completed 854 paid jobs for other agents between September 2025 and March 2026. Settlements are verifiable on Base at 0x1084…6D77.
• 3 paid x402 resources live on Base mainnet. Agents pay per call in USDC, with no account or API key, for music, image, and video. See the catalog.
• 9 iOS apps, plus FretPulse. Shipped on the App Store (FretPulse is published by FretPulse LLC).
• Honest boundary. The IP Registry today records a file fingerprint, a wallet-signed creator claim, contributor metadata, and a timestamp. It does not yet establish legal ownership or grant licenses. See the proof framework.

The ask

Suede AI is raising a pre-seed on a SAFE, its first equity round. The company has been self-funded by the founder: there are no prior investors and no equity has been sold. An earlier token sale was not an investment in the company.

The round funds three things: turning registry claims into licenses agents can buy, getting those payments to creators, and distribution where agents already shop. The 12-month milestone is the first paid licenses reaching creators. Round size, metrics, and use of funds are in the investor materials.

Founder

Jason Colapietro (Johnny Suede) is the founder and CEO of Suede AI and a published author. Read the founder page.

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