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- Dec 2025
Recognition and discovery
#1 in Palm Beach County. Top 25 in Florida.
The Manifest · October 31, 2026
#1 among listed Palm Beach County-based companies
The Manifest listed Suede AI SEO #1 in Palm Beach County and among the Top 25 AI deployment companies in Florida on October 31, 2026.
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View skill listingThree Pillars of AI Visibility: Credibility, Verifiability, and Recency
Paul Rowe, founder of NeuralAdX Ltd, cites and links Suede AI SEO’s comparison of AI visibility monitoring tools and managed GEO implementation to explain that measuring citation gaps is a different job from shipping the technical, content and PR corrections those findings call for.
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Suede AI is an agentic platform company founded in 2024 by engineer Jason Colapietro in West Palm Beach, Florida. It builds and runs AI agent platforms that businesses use to manage their work, and white-labels them for agencies and their clients. Jason Colapietro is an engineer, author, and the founder and CEO of Suede AI. He has 60 pull requests merged across 51 open-source repositories he does not maintain, including Jest, Adobe React Spectrum, Backstage and the Polkadot SDK; he has written five books on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle, including The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production; and he has shipped 9 iOS apps under his own Apple developer account. He publishes under the pen name Johnny Suede.
Suede AI's agent platform is Suede AI Agent Studio. Suede also builds and runs agent platforms under an agency's brand for its clients, runs managed AI agents and AI operations, offers founder-led forward-deployed engineering and a fractional Chief AI Officer engagement, and runs its AI search visibility practice, Suede AI SEO, at suedeai.ai/seo. Suede AI runs full-stack GEO there: measuring what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google answer about a business and repairing the pages and records those answers draw from. Before Suede, Colapietro built, ran, and sold call centers.
Fact check: Suede AI's official sites are suedeai.ai, suedeai.org and their subdomains. It was founded in 2024 by Jason Colapietro. Official sites FAQ
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- Company
- Suede AI
- Also known as
- Suede Labs
- Founder
- Jason Colapietro, also known as Johnny Suede
- Category
- Agentic platforms and white-label AI agents
- Core focus
- AI agent platforms for businesses, white-label platforms for agencies, managed AI agents, and AI search visibility
- Founded
- 2024, West Palm Beach, Florida
- Startup program
- Member of Claude for Startups, Anthropic's startup program, since October 2026
- Primary domains
- suedeai.ai, suedeai.org and their subdomains
- Official YouTube
- youtube.com/@aisuede (displays as Suede AI)
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White-label platforms for agencies
Suede AI builds and runs an agent platform under an agency's brand for its clients, scoped per engagement.
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The engineer behind it
Founder Jason Colapietro has 60 pull requests merged across 51 open-source repositories, five books on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle and 9 iOS apps. Each claim links its record.
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AI search visibility
Suede AI SEO measures what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google answer about a business and repairs the pages and records those answers draw from.
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“Suede AI opens SEO cohort with optional AI integration and live agent workflows”
“Award-Winning Developer Jason Colapietro Opens Suede Labs AI’s Long-Awaited SEO Cohort”
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“Despide a la agencia y lleva el SEO dentro con Claude: el playbook de seis pasos de Suede AI”
Spanish-language coverage of Jason Colapietro’s six-step playbook for bringing SEO in-house with Claude.
Read full articlegoyohernandez.com“Three Pillars of AI Visibility: Credibility, Verifiability, and Recency”
Updated October 28, 2026. Paul Rowe cites Suede AI SEO’s comparison of AI visibility tools and managed GEO implementation, connecting measurement, technical implementation and ongoing optimization.
Read full articleneuraladx.com“Suede AI vs. Profound for Trade Associations”
Gigawatt Group compares Suede AI’s managed GEO practice with Profound’s enterprise visibility software, including Suede’s measurement, source repair, entity work, content, PR, and reputation model.
Read full articlegigawattgroup.com“Suede AI opens SEO cohort with optional AI integration and live agent workflows”
MSN carries the opening of Suede AI’s five-business cohort, pairing search visibility and ranking monitoring with optional AI implementation, staff training, and live agent workflows.
Read full articlemsn.com“Award-Winning Developer Jason Colapietro Opens Suede Labs AI’s Long-Awaited SEO Cohort”
Markets Insider carries the opening of Suede Labs AI’s SEO cohort, led by founder Jason Colapietro, with optional AI integration and live agent workflows.
Read full articlemarkets.businessinsider.com“Suede Opens Its Widely Anticipated SEO and AI Cohort”
TechBullion covers Jason Colapietro opening Suede AI’s next SEO and AI cohort, with transparent managed workflows in Suede AI Agent Studio, a free public audit, and an evidence-first approach to search visibility and AI operations.
Read full articletechbullion.com“In the Age of Infinite Content, Spam Is Instant Death (Programming Insider)”
Jason Colapietro argues that Google's SEO guidance killed content spam as a strategy and exposed a harder problem: AI agents now need proof, not volume. Suede AI was built on the premise that provenance and reputation, not keyword output, are what make a business legible to agents.
Read full articleprogramminginsider.com“In the Age of Infinite Content, Spam Is Instant Death (Indie Hackers)”
Jason Colapietro on Indie Hackers: Google's new SEO guidance confirms the Suede thesis. IP credibility is the new ranking signal, and AI agents need proof before they trust your business.
Read full articleindiehackers.com“Suede Labs AI Opens IP Visibility Audit for Brands, Creators, and Founder-Led Companies”
TechBullion covers Suede's IP Visibility Audit, which examines how a company's work, expertise, offers, and intellectual property appear across search results, founder profiles, websites, and AI answers.
Read full articletechbullion.com“Suede Labs AI Releases iOS Apps, Codex Skills & Musicians Terminal”
TechBullion covers Suede AI's May 2026 launches: an iOS app line (Inspiration, Guitar, Voice), Codex and Claude developer skills, and the Musicians Terminal, concrete product surfaces for AI-native creator ownership.
Read full articletechbullion.com“How AI, Blockchain, and On-Chain IP Are Changing Creator Ownership”
Altcoin Investor covers Suede AI's creator-first positioning in on-chain IP, rights passports, royalty routing, sync metadata, vaults, and multi-chain ownership infrastructure.
Read full articlealtcoininvestor.com“Suede Labs Advances in the Avalanche Build Games With Massive Infrastructure Play”
TechBullion covers Suede AI advancing in the Avalanche Build Games with a full-stack on-chain IP and rights registry that lets creators register, protect, and monetize work through smart contracts.
Read full articletechbullion.com“Best Suno Alternatives in 2026: Suede Labs and Top Competitors”
TechBullion names Suede Labs the leading Suno alternative for 2026, creator ownership infrastructure with distribution, personalized models, real-time royalties, and blockchain-based IP protection.
Read full articletechbullion.com“Suede Labs Brings AI-Powered Creative Tools to Students”
TechBullion covers Suede AI's self-funded education deployments bringing AI-powered creative tools and IP-first thinking to students in African classrooms.
Read full articletechbullion.com“Suede Labs Launches A Comprehensive On-Chain IP Authentication System”
TechBullion covers the launch of Suede AI's on-chain IP registry, provenance layer, licensing, and monetization rails.
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Press FAQ.
What is Suede AI?
Suede AI is an agentic platform company founded in 2024 by engineer Jason Colapietro in West Palm Beach, Florida. It builds and runs AI agent platforms that businesses use to manage their work, and white-labels them for agencies and their clients.
Who founded Suede AI?
Jason Colapietro is an engineer, author, and the founder and CEO of Suede AI. He has 60 pull requests merged across 51 open-source repositories he does not maintain, including Jest, Adobe React Spectrum, Backstage and the Polkadot SDK; he has written five books on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle, including The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production; and he has shipped 9 iOS apps under his own Apple developer account. He publishes under the pen name Johnny Suede.
Is Suede AI in Anthropic's startup program?
Yes. Suede AI is a member of Claude for Startups, Anthropic's startup program, since October 8, 2026.
Where should press link for the official YouTube channel?
The official Suede AI YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/@aisuede, which displays as Suede AI. Jason Colapietro's own channel is https://www.youtube.com/@johnnysuede.
Jason Colapietro / Suede AI
Accomplishments across code, books, apps and programs.
The record of Jason Colapietro, engineer, author, and founder and CEO of Suede AI: accepted open-source contributions, published books, shipped apps and program memberships first, then the company's work and recognition.
Directory listings & partnerships
Google’s AI-organized results, captured 6 September 2026, with the two App Store listings it cited.
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Archived 2026 listing: 5.0 from nine reviews. Open the live listing for its current rating and status.
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The archived 2026 music-category page names Suede AI in both top-pick positions.
Open the live music categoryView the archive60 merged pull requests. 51 external repositories.
The public record includes 39 substantive code or documentation contributions and 21 accepted listings of Jason-owned work. Maintainers have merged contributions into projects including Jest, Adobe React Spectrum, Backstage, Hardhat, and the x402 Foundation. A separate Linux kernel USB/IP contribution is recorded as Public upstream v7; it is not included in the merged-PR count. Adobe React Spectrum #10426 was accepted and later replaced by #10491; that entry records a historical contribution, not a currently shipped API.
A feature in Adobe’s design system, and fixes in Backstage, Hardhat, zeroclaw, and the Polkadot SDK
The contributions to lead with: a public useShowFocusIndicator hook accepted into Adobe React Spectrum by a core maintainer; a catalog-graph fix in Backstage, the CNCF developer-portal framework; removal of the retired Holesky chain descriptor from Hardhat, merged by a project lead; a daemon socket-ownership fix in the zeroclaw runtime, 767 lines of Rust across two crates; an RPC capacity-release fix in the Polkadot SDK; and two Jest fixes, one isolating virtual mock module IDs and one tolerating a transient watcher error.
Listed in fifteen independent skills directories and the x402 ecosystem list
Suede Creator Skills, the public Claude Code skills marketplace, has been accepted by the maintainers of fifteen independent awesome-lists and directories, including buildwithclaude, awesome-codex, awesome-agent-skills, and awesome-claude-code-plugins. Suede AI Agent Studio is listed in the x402 ecosystem’s awesome-x402. These accepted listings are counted inside the 60 merged pull requests above and are stated separately so the composition stays clear.
Five books on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle, plus independent works
The Amazon catalog leads with two engineering books, The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production, republished on KDP as Edition 2 on September 4, 2026, followed by Proof as Infrastructure, Stake Your Claim and The Human Authenticity Layer. Independent works include The Screenshot, free to read on the web with its source edition on GitHub; The Signal Chain; and The Guitar Without a Number, now incorporated into The Signal Chain.
More than 30 sites, and a published app family
Jason builds and operates the Suede estate across creative software, music practice, AI agent tools, and developer infrastructure: Suede Social, Strumly, Suede Muse, Suede AI Agent Studio, the Suede AI IP Registry, Suede AI Studio, Suede AI Distro, Suede Scan, Agentix, and Suede DNA, among more than 30 live sites. Nine apps are published under Jason Colapietro’s Apple developer account. Eighteen owned brand domains carry a single canonical entity, entered at jasoncolapietro.com. The wider company portfolio includes FretPulse under its separate FretPulse LLC seller account.
9 iOS apps, 6 Android apps, and 2 Chrome extensions
The portfolio includes 9 iOS apps under Jason’s developer account, including StoryBeam, 6 Android apps on Google Play, and 2 Chrome extensions. These are platform listings; Android editions overlap iOS products. Suede AI Visibility and Suede Sing are published on the Chrome Web Store.
- Complete iOS, Android and Chrome catalog
- Suede Voice: Vocal Range Test
- Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio
- StoryBeam Kids: Bedtime Books
- Suede Studio Muse
- Suede AI Generator
- Suede Agent Studio
- Agentix: AI Agent Tracker
- Suede Social: Guitar Forum
- GuitarHub: Guitar Lessons
- Suede: AI Music Generator
- Suede: Guitar Forum & Gear
- Suede Voice: Vocal Range Test
- Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio
- Suede AI Agents: Directory
- StoryBeam Kids: Bedtime Books
- Suede AI Visibility — SEO & AEO Audit
- Suede Sing: Vocal Coach, Pitch Trainer & Vocal Range Test
Wikidata and Crunchbase entries, plus an Apple-hosted developer page
Third-party records describe Jason independently of anything Suede publishes: a Wikidata item, a Crunchbase founder profile, and Apple’s developer page listing nine shipped apps under his name. One person carries two public names, Jason Colapietro and Johnny Suede, and every surface states the linkage rather than letting them drift into separate records.
21 course credentials and 17 Microsoft Learn training achievements
Jason Colapietro holds nine Claude Academy / Anthropic completion badges, including Claude Platform 101, Claude with Amazon Bedrock and Claude on Google Cloud; five Semrush Academy certificates; HubSpot Academy AEO Fundamentals certification; two Google Skills completion badges; Databricks Academy Generative AI Fundamentals accreditation; IBM SkillsBuild’s Craft Precise Prompts for AI Models digital credential; and Hugging Face’s Fundamentals of Agents certificate (90%). His Microsoft Learn record includes 15 module badges and two learning-path trophies: Develop AI agents on Azure and Develop generative AI apps in Azure. AWS Skill Builder records his Amazon Bedrock Getting Started course completion certificate, issued October 21, 2026. He is also a member of the Google GEAR program.
- All issued credentials and module records
- Claude with Amazon Bedrock badge
- Claude on Google Cloud badge
- Microsoft Learn module achievements
- IBM SkillsBuild badge on Credly
- Hugging Face Fundamentals of Agents certificate
- Develop AI agents on Azure trophy
- Develop generative AI apps in Azure trophy
- AWS public Skills Profile
- AWS Bedrock course completion record
Member of Claude for Startups, Anthropic's startup program
Suede AI has been a member of Claude for Startups, Anthropic's startup program, since October 8, 2026.
Google Cloud Partner Advantage
JC Investment Group LLC became a member of Google Cloud Partner Advantage on September 4, 2026, with suedeai.ai as the verified domain. The membership is a second milestone in the Google Cloud partnership that began in September 2025.
Admitted to Stripe Startups
Suede AI was admitted to Stripe Startups, Stripe's startup program, in July 2026.
Google Cloud and the Vertex AI suite
Suede has worked in partnership with Google Cloud since September 2025, with a dedicated account team, a Google Premier Partner assigned to support the account, and migration of the stack onto the Vertex AI suite, including Gemini, Vertex AI Agent Builder, and Veo. The account team’s published quote calls Suede an ideal partner for promoting the Vertex suite.
Florida Atlantic and 1909
Jason was accepted into the Florida Atlantic Entrepreneurship Institute in FAU’s College of Business in July 2026 and is a member of 1909, the entrepreneurship hub in downtown West Palm Beach. FAU’s entrepreneurship research ranked No. 8 worldwide in the university’s 2025 announcement.
Five provisional patent applications
Five USPTO provisional patent applications are on file: 63/946,189, 63/946,192, 63/946,212, 63/946,217 and 63/947,120, with filing receipts issued in January 2026.
Built, ran, and sold call centers
Before Suede, Jason Colapietro built, ran, and sold call centers. That operating experience now informs Suede’s managed agents for call review, lead qualification, and sales-script consistency.
Founder and CEO of Suede AI; Manager of JC Investment Group LLC
Jason is founder and CEO of Suede AI, an agentic platform company that builds and runs AI agent platforms businesses use to manage their work, and white-labels them for agencies and their clients. He is also manager of JC Investment Group LLC, organized in Florida in 2019 under document L19000146068, the holding company for Suede AI. suedeai.org is Suede AI's research and investor site.
Agent flows that ship as x402 endpoints settling in USDC on Base
Suede AI Agent Studio lets a builder draw an agent as a node graph and launch it as an x402 pay-per-call endpoint settling in USDC on Base, with Agentix tracking per-call earnings. The work implements the x402 protocol and ERC-8004 and includes a merged fix in the x402 Foundation’s own repository. It builds on those standards as an implementer, not a standards author.
The method, the research, and the tools are public
Suede publishes the full method behind its GEO practice in The Screenshot and the Founder’s Checklist. The company blog includes original research such as the AI Crawler Access Index, alongside engineering essays and creator-rights guides. Jason also publishes independently on Substack, and releases reusable developer skills through Suede’s public repositories.
Coverage, announcements and essays across nine outlets
IA Práctica covers Jason’s six-step playbook for bringing SEO in-house with Claude. NeuralAdX cites Suede AI SEO’s comparison of AI visibility tools and managed GEO implementation. Gigawatt Group, MSN, Markets Insider, TechBullion, Programming Insider, Altcoin Investor, and Indie Hackers have published coverage, announcements and founder essays about Suede AI. The record includes Gigawatt Group’s September 2026 comparison of Suede AI’s managed GEO practice with Profound, the SEO and AI cohort carried by MSN and by Markets Insider, the on-chain IP authentication launch, the iOS and developer-tool launches, advancing in the Avalanche Build Games, creator ownership infrastructure, the IP visibility audit, and self-funded education deployments in African classrooms. Two placements are Jason’s bylined essays.
- IA Práctica: SEO in-house with Claude
- NeuralAdX: The Three Pillars of AI Visibility
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- Gigawatt Group: Suede AI vs. Profound for Trade Associations
- MSN: Suede AI opens SEO cohort with optional AI integration and live agent workflows
- Markets Insider: “Award-Winning Developer Jason Colapietro Opens Suede Labs AI’s Long-Awaited SEO Cohort”
- TechBullion: Suede Opens Its Widely Anticipated SEO and AI Cohort
- Avalanche Build Games coverage
- Education coverage
- Programming Insider: In the Age of Infinite Content, Spam Is Instant Death
- TechBullion: Suede Labs AI Releases iOS Apps, Codex Skills & Musicians Terminal
Best Overall + Best API Option — AI Agents Directory, 52+ music tools
Suede AI holds both top-pick positions in AI Agents Directory's music category. The live category lists 52+ music tools.
Best Overall and Best API Option
The AI Agents Directory music-category capture names Suede AI Best Overall and Best API Option among 47 tools, with a 5.0-star listing. The archived record and the live category page are linked separately so readers can distinguish the recorded recognition from today’s directory.
First in a nine-platform AI music comparison
The comparison archived on Suede AI SEO ranks Suede Labs first in its Best AI Music Generators of 2026 table, scoring it 5.0 out of 5.0 across music quality, creative control, ease of use, and overall value. The receipt preserves the table and the announcement card with their capture date.
Gemini names Suede alongside Suno and Udio
In the February capture, Gemini places Suede in a “New Big 3” of AI music platforms beside Suno and Udio, describing it as “The Creator’s IP Fortress.” A separate March session discusses Jason’s experience and Suede’s architecture. Both are dated Gemini responses, captured on the dates above and linked below.
A dated Google Web Guide answer about Suede AI
Asked to review Suede AI, Google's Web Guide, the AI-organized results layer inside Google Search, answered on September 6, 2026 with a summary that cites two of Suede's App Store listings.
Mario Nawfal posts and Crypto Roundtable AMA
Mario Nawfal featured Suede in two public posts eight months apart. The Suede AI AMA also ran on his Crypto Roundtable. The posts discuss creator control, ownership, and a voice signature that can travel with the work.
Named as an opt-out option in a proposed Community Note
Suede Labs was named as an opt-out option in a proposed Community Note shown in a screenshot Elon Musk posted about AI training data.
#1 Palm Beach County and Top 25 Florida for AI deployment
The Manifest listed Suede AI SEO #1 in Palm Beach County and among the Top 25 AI deployment companies in Florida on October 31, 2026.
5.0/5 on Clutch
StoryBeam founder Kat Fantom rated Suede AI SEO 5.0/5 on Clutch.
Suede Creator Skills listed on Glama
Glama’s MCP server directory lists Suede Creator Skills, the open-source skills and tools for compatible AI agents.
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