Founder and CEO of Suede AI. Fractional forward-deployed engineer: I integrate AI agents into how a company works, then run its SEO, AI search visibility and PR, at seo.suedeai.ai.

Founder and Managing Member of JC Investment Group LLC · author of eight books · five provisional patent applications

Jason Colapietro is a fractional forward-deployed engineer. He integrates AI agents into how a company works, for call review, lead qualification, follow-up and operations, then runs its SEO, AI search visibility and PR at seo.suedeai.ai. He also builds systems that help creators record authorship, define rights, license work, and route revenue as media moves between people, platforms, and AI agents. At Suede AI, also known as Suede Labs AI, his work spans programmable IP, provenance, registry-backed media, royalty routing, and agent commerce over x402 and ERC-8004, with music and likeness as early use cases. He publishes music, video, and writing as Johnny Suede. Before Suede he built, scaled, and exited call-center businesses, and he took the $SUEDE token to a roughly $23.9 million peak fully diluted valuation in under 90 days from launch. He builds solo: every app, site, book, and pull request on this page is his own work.

Counts are as of September 18, 2026. Most lines link to a record somebody else hosts.

• Nine iOS apps and three Android apps, live under my own developer name. Apple's developer page lists all nine with current versions and release dates. The first shipped on May 7, 2026; the ninth, GuitarHub: Guitar Lessons, on September 14, 2026. Three of them also run on Google Play, listed under Apps, and the vocal studio ships as a Chrome extension.
• 49 pull requests merged into 44 open-source projects I don't maintain, across my two GitHub accounts, JasonColapietro and Suede-AI. Jest, Adobe React Spectrum, Backstage, Hardhat, Polkadot SDK, Cosmos SDK, CoreOS Ignition, Solana Pay, elizaOS, x402, zeroclaw, and the Prometheus docs are among them. 28 are fixes, features, tests, and docs; the other 21 are accepted listings of Suede projects on third-party lists. Outside GitHub, a Linux kernel USB/IP patch series is public upstream at v7 on the kernel's own lists, recorded separately under Open source. Check all 49 merged pull requests on GitHub.
• A USB/IP patch series submitted to the Linux kernel, revised in public from v2 through v7 on the kernel's own mailing lists at lore.kernel.org/linux-usb. Every revision is in the open, on the least forgiving list in open source. It sits outside the pull-request count above; the record is at seo.suedeai.ai/evidence#open-source.
• Suede Creator Skills: 76 open-source agent skills for Claude Code and Codex, installable as a plugin marketplace, and accepted into 15 independent skills directories — GitHub's own awesome-copilot among them. Every acceptance links to its merged pull request.
• Entered OpenAI's WebMCP Challenge in September 2026 with a browser-native storefront: four page-scoped tools that let an in-browser agent find, inspect, dry-run, and buy a published service. Source published under MIT, running at the WebMCP storefront.
• Five books on Amazon and three published direct, among them The Signal Chain, an illustrated history of guitar tone, and The Screenshot, an SEO and GEO field guide with its source edition on GitHub.
• Before Suede, I built, scaled, and exited businesses. Multiple multimillion-dollar businesses over two decades, including call centers in my niche that I exited for millions; the sales scripts I wrote are still in use across that industry. That operating history now shapes Suede's managed agents for call review and lead qualification. The record is on the founder page.
• Took the $SUEDE token to a roughly $23.9 million peak fully diluted valuation in under 90 days from launch. Stated on the founder page.
• In partnership with Google Cloud since September 2025: a dedicated Google Cloud account team, a Google Premier Partner assigned to the account, and the Suede stack on the Vertex AI suite. The dated correspondence, from Google Cloud's first outreach on August 5, 2025 onward, is published as captures at seo.suedeai.ai/evidence. Google Cloud Partner Advantage member since September 4, 2026, through JC Investment Group LLC, with suedeai.ai as the verified domain. Stripe Startups, accepted July 31, 2026. Florida Atlantic Entrepreneurship Institute at FAU's College of Business, accepted July 17, 2026. Member of 1909, the West Palm Beach entrepreneurship hub.
• Covered by Business Insider on September 16, 2026, and by TechBullion seven times since December 2025, plus Altcoin Investor, Indie Hackers, and Programming Insider: eleven placements across five outlets. Business Insider's piece, Award-Winning Developer Jason Colapietro Opens Suede Labs AI’s Long-Awaited SEO Cohort, covers the five-business SEO, AEO, and GEO cohort. The full list is under Press.
• Named in public conversation. Mario Nawfal featured Suede in two posts eight months apart, and the Suede AI AMA ran on his Crypto Roundtable. A screenshot on Elon Musk's timeline of proposed Community Notes about AI training data names Suede Labs as an opt-out option; the archived capture recorded 2.7 million views, and the mention is the note's wording rather than an endorsement.
• Ranked number one, and named in a New Big 3 beside Suno and Udio. Google calls Suede the #1 platform for musicians. Asked for the top AI music platforms of 2026, Google's own model returns a "New Big 3" and puts Suede in it, beside Suno and Udio, with a label of its own: "The Creator's IP Fortress." Suno and Udio generate. Suede generates and proves who owns the result — that is the third pillar, and it is the one neither of the other two is built to be. An independent nine-platform review ranks Suede #1 Best AI Music Generator of 2026 at 5.0 of 5.0, ahead of Suno, Udio, SOUNDRAW, Beatoven and AIVA. Google's Web Guide calls the company "highly rated by users, earning a 5/5 rating from verified reviews." Google Cloud's own account manager put it in writing on December 24, 2025: "That's fantastic news about ranking #1 on Google search! Great momentum." The AI Agents Directory names Suede AI Best Overall and Best API Option among 47 music tools. The Gemini, review, Web Guide and directory captures are dated on the receipts page, with the full detail under Programs and recognition.
• 3,092 pull requests merged across the Suede repositories in 2026 through September 5, most of them private, behind about 30 live websites on 18 brand domains and 200 public repositories across the JasonColapietro and Suede-AI accounts.
• 12,280 contributions on this account, effectively all of them since May 2026. GitHub's counter on my profile reads 12,280 for the trailing year as of September 18, 2026, but the graph is blank before May: that volume is about four months of work, on the order of 90 a day. Several thousand more sit on the Suede-AI organization and an earlier personal account and are not in the figure. Commits specifically: GitHub's commit search indexes 8,175 on default branches, the rest sitting on feature and release branches it does not reach. All of it solo: no team, no co-authors.
• Third-party records: Wikidata Q140235755 for the person and Q141169484 for Suede AI, Crunchbase, PitchBook, and Apple Developer.

• AI integration, SEO, AI search visibility and PR for businesses: AI agents for call review, lead qualification and follow-up built into a client's own stack, then GEO/AEO audits, entity and schema repair and press work, delivered as a fractional forward-deployed engineer at seo.suedeai.ai.
• Creator ownership: proof of creation, provenance, rights metadata, licensing, and royalty routing.
• Registry-backed media and likeness: dated records and machine-readable consent terms for creative work, voice, face, name, and persona.
• Agent commerce: public agent metadata and x402 payments for machine-readable, pay-per-call workflows.
• Music-first creator tools: creation, distribution, guitar, voice, and catalog experiences connected to an ownership layer.

About 30 websites and 9 iOS apps. Full index at hub.suedeai.ai; the operating map, entity by entity, is at map.suedeai.ai.

Nine on the App Store, three on Google Play, one on the Chrome Web Store. Apple's developer page is the canonical list.

Five on Amazon: Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer · Proof as Infrastructure · Stake Your Claim · The Claude Code Bible · Codex in Production

Published independently: The Signal Chain · The Screenshot · The Guitar Without a Number

Owned corpus: Substack, including Fender Is Trying to Kill John Mayer's Guitar. AI Companies Are Next. · YouTube as @johnnysuede · @aisuede

Third-party outlets that have covered Jason Colapietro and Suede AI, newest first: eleven placements across five outlets.

• September 16, 2026 · Business Insider · Award-Winning Developer Jason Colapietro Opens Suede Labs AI’s Long-Awaited SEO Cohort
• September 13, 2026 · TechBullion · Suede Opens Its Widely Anticipated SEO and AI Cohort
• July 6, 2026 · Programming Insider · In the Age of Infinite Content, Spam Is Instant Death
• July 3, 2026 · Indie Hackers · In the Age of Infinite Content, Spam Is Instant Death (Indie Hackers)
• July 2, 2026 · TechBullion · Suede Labs AI Opens IP Visibility Audit for Brands, Creators, and Founder-Led Companies
• May 25, 2026 · TechBullion · Suede Labs AI Releases iOS Apps, Codex Skills & Musicians Terminal
• May 9, 2026 · Altcoin Investor · How AI, Blockchain, and On-Chain IP Are Changing Creator Ownership
• Feb 27, 2026 · TechBullion · Suede Labs Advances in the Avalanche Build Games With Massive Infrastructure Play, syndicated by MEXC News
• Feb 9, 2026 · TechBullion · Best Suno Alternatives in 2026: Suede Labs and Top Competitors
• Jan 7, 2026 · TechBullion · Suede Labs Brings AI-Powered Creative Tools to Students: The Quiet Revolution in Africa's Classrooms, syndicated by MEXC News
• Dec 15, 2025 · TechBullion · Suede Labs Launches a Comprehensive On-Chain IP Authentication System

Press kit and verified facts for journalists: suedeai.ai/press.

• Google Cloud partnership, since September 2025. Google Cloud's account team first reached out on August 5, 2025, opened the account relationship on a call on September 25, 2025, assigned a dedicated account manager and a Google Premier Partner, ran a technical call with a Google Cloud customer engineer on October 16, 2025, and on October 10, 2025 put a co-marketing plan for Vertex AI, Gemini, and Veo in writing. Eleven dated captures of that correspondence are published at seo.suedeai.ai/evidence#google-cloud.
• Google Cloud Partner Advantage, member since September 4, 2026, through JC Investment Group LLC, with suedeai.ai as the verified domain. Declared on the JC Investment Group press page; the acceptance and account-verification emails are captured at seo.suedeai.ai/evidence#google-cloud.
• Stripe Startups, accepted July 31, 2026.
• Florida Atlantic Entrepreneurship Institute, FAU College of Business, accepted July 17, 2026. FAU's entrepreneurship research ranks No. 8 globally in the TCU productivity rankings for 2020 to 2024.
• 1909, member of the West Palm Beach entrepreneurship hub since July 2026.
• OpenAI WebMCP Challenge, August 25 to September 3, 2026: entered with Suede Agent Studio's browser-native storefront, four page-scoped tools that let an in-browser agent find, inspect, dry-run, and buy a published service. Source published under MIT.
• Google's Web Guide, captured September 6, 2026: asked to review Suede Labs AI, the AI-organized results layer inside Google Search opens by calling the company "highly rated by users, earning a 5/5 rating from verified reviews," citing two App Store listings. The capture.
• Gemini, captured February 17, 2026: asked for the top AI music generation platforms of 2026, Google's own model returns a "New Big 3" and puts Suede in it, beside Suno and Udio, calling it "The Creator's IP Fortress." The capture.
• Ranked #1 Best AI Music Generator of 2026, captured November 26, 2025: an independent top-nine review places Suede first at 5.0 of 5.0, ahead of Suno, Udio, SOUNDRAW, Beatoven and AIVA, scored on music quality, creative control and ease of use. The receipt.
• AI Agents Directory: the archived music-category page names Suede AI Best Overall and Best API Option among 47 tools, with a 5.0-star listing. Archived record · live category.
• Five provisional patent applications on file with the USPTO: 63/946,189, 63/946,192, 63/946,212, 63/946,217, and 63/947,120, all with filing receipts issued in January 2026. Provisional applications are not themselves published, so these are filing records rather than granted patents.

• My apps on the App Store: Apple-hosted and not written by me, which is the scarce kind of proof. Every iOS app shipped under my name, with its current version and release date.
• Google Play and the Chrome Web Store: the same apps on Google's records.
• Merged upstream pull requests: GitHub's own search, scoped to repositories I don't own.
• suedeai.org: the company and thesis site — ownership, provenance, books, and company material.
• Press kit and verified facts: the journalist-facing record.
• The receipts page: dated captures behind the Google Cloud partnership, the press placements, the open-source record, and the AI search surfaces quoted above.
• Public IP registry: wallet-signed creator claims, file fingerprints, contributor records, and public timestamps; evidence, not legal title.
• x402 manifest: currently advertised paid API resources in a machine-readable catalog.
• A2A (agent-to-agent) agent card: public agent identity, capabilities, and discovery metadata.
• Wikidata Q140235755 · Crunchbase · PitchBook: third-party identity records.

Most of it is Suede Creator Skills: 76 agent skills for Claude Code and Codex, installable as a plugin marketplace. Alongside it: the Suede Python SDK for the x402 media endpoints, the elizaOS plugin that lets agents pay for music, video, and image generation over x402, claimcheck, which turns the promises on a privacy page into tests that fail the build, the Suede Market Maker, a self-hosted Solana market maker dashboard, and the WebMCP storefront source.

Beyond my own repos, I send fixes upstream when something bites me mid-build. Forty-nine pull requests have merged across 44 repositories I don't maintain, as of September 19, 2026: connection capacity released after a failed RPC registration in Parity's Polkadot SDK, MCP provider guidance and Pay Kit protocol docs in Solana Pay, a bounded IPC frame length in elizaOS's Discord plugin, local socket ownership in the zeroclaw runtime, a focus-indicator hook in Adobe's React Spectrum, a Windows watcher crash and virtual mock cache-isolation bug in Jest, a catalog graph fix in Backstage, a dead Holesky chain descriptor removed from Hardhat, a missing-requirements crash in the x402 TypeScript client, the TSDB storage comparison in the Prometheus docs, an MCP release QA skill in GitHub's awesome-copilot, honest errors for unsupported model architectures in nam-rs, a LegacyDec JSON argument encoding fix in the Cosmos SDK, and Butane config validation for the docs in CoreOS Ignition. Twenty-eight of the 49 are substantive fixes, features, tests, and docs; the other twenty-one are accepted listings of Suede's own projects on third-party lists. Outside GitHub, a Linux kernel USB/IP patch series is public upstream at v6 on the kernel's mailing lists; it is recorded separately at seo.suedeai.ai/evidence#open-source and is not in the count above. Check all 49 merged pull requests on GitHub.

Suede Creator Skills has been reviewed and merged into fifteen independent skill and plugin catalogs that I do not maintain. Every row links to the merged pull request.

Two more third-party lists carry Suede projects rather than the skills pack: xpaysh/awesome-x402 lists Suede Agent Studio, and the elizaOS plugin registry carries @suedeai/plugin-suede. A separate skills pack, ios-app-dev-skills, was accepted into ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins.

Structured reference pages kept in this repository, for people and for agents reading the raw files.

• Public identity, roles, and evidence — canonical name, creative alias, roles, and third-party records.
• Suede AI platform reference — what the platform does, its public surfaces, and its agent interfaces.
• Canonical public links and feeds — one link index for Jason Colapietro and Suede AI.
• Ecosystem directory pointers — a compatibility page routing to the live directories that hold current products, paths, and prices.

What shipped, newest first. Product entries link to the live surface; open-source entries link to the merged pull request or release.

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