Timeline

The long arc, without the embellishment.

Two decades of companies

Left high school early. Built and scaled multiple businesses across two decades, the operating experience Suede AI now runs on.

Stepping back

Stepped away from day-to-day operating work. The pause is where the Suede thesis formed: infinite creation, no ownership layer.

Suede AI

Founded Suede AI. Self-funded, no VC control, treasury-first. Shipped the $SUEDE token, six Base contracts, VoicePrint, Conduit, and a family of creator tools.

The books

Published Stake Your Claim, Proof as Infrastructure, and Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer.

2019

• JC Investment Group LLC organizedOrganized in Florida. Jason Colapietro is its manager, and it is the holding company for Suede AI.

2025

• Talks and AMAsFebruary to October: a BTSE X Spaces AMA in February, a Suede AI X Space in May, The Brave Show panel and Mario Nawfal's Crypto Roundtable AMA in September, and a ChainGPT round table in October.
• Partnership with Google CloudSeptember: a dedicated account team and migration of the Suede stack to the Vertex AI and Gemini platform.
• The Human Authenticity Layer on KindleDecember 30: the first of the five published books.

2026

• Proof as Infrastructure on KindleFebruary 8.
• Agent Studio in productionMarch: Suede AI Agent Studio in production, with x402 and AgentCash payment integration.
• Stake Your Claim on KindleMarch 6.
• Base contracts hardenedJune: hardening and audit of the six Base contracts.
• Stripe StartupsJuly: Suede admitted to Stripe Startups.
• Florida Atlantic and 1909July: enrolled at the Florida Atlantic Entrepreneurship Institute in FAU's College of Business, and joined 1909, the entrepreneurship hub in downtown West Palm Beach.
• suedeai.ai becomes the canonical domainJuly: the move to suedeai.ai, with 301s, OAuth redirect URIs, CORS and contract metadata updated.
• Upstream contributions acceptedAugust and September: work accepted into Adobe React Spectrum, Backstage, Hardhat, zeroclaw, the Polkadot SDK and Jest.
• Google Cloud Partner AdvantageSeptember 4: JC Investment Group LLC became a member, with suedeai.ai as the verified domain.
• The Operator's Library, Edition 2September 4: The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production republished as Edition 2.
• The brand-domain estate rebuiltSeptember: eighteen domains, one job each, one entity graph. In October the estate moved to three standalone sites, with the rest folded into Suede AI properties.
• Claude StartupsOctober 8: Suede AI accepted into Anthropic's Claude Startups program.