Johnny SuedeSuede AI founder. Author. Musician. Jason Colapietro.

Johnny Suede — founder, author and musician

Johnny Suede is the pen name of Jason Colapietro, engineer, author, and the founder and CEO of Suede AI. Under this name he publishes books, essays and music. This is the official home of that body of work, with links to his professional record, writing and music.

Why a pen name at all

Writers and musicians have always used pen names and stage names. What is new is a world where a name can be cloned by a model in an afternoon, so this one is declared publicly and bound to a real person with a verifiable record: Jason Colapietro.

Founder of 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. His engineering record, apps and program memberships are on jasoncolapietro.com. Here, the books, essays and music show the writer behind the company.

Books, essays and music

Five books on Amazon Kindle, led by The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production, his operator's guides to AI coding agents. The essays cover AI search, AI agents, music rights and gear. His guitar writing and songwriting inform the music and creator software Suede AI publishes as a separate product line.

Latest essays

The three newest essays in the index, by publication date. Each title opens the original post on Substack; the essays page has a line on every one.