The declaration
Johnny Suede is Jason Colapietro. Filed publicly. Not a persona.
What is declared
The alias appears everywhere the person does: on the books, on the token listings, on the company site, on this page. There is one body of work and one person behind it.
Why it matters for Suede
A company whose product is human authenticity cannot run on an anonymous founder. The alias is the first entry in the registry.
One declared alias
Johnny Suede is the one declared alias. The legal name is Jason Colapietro, and the company is Suede AI.
What the name covers
Jason Colapietro publishes under the name Johnny Suede: the essays and the music carry the alias.
Which name to use
Introduce the founder as Jason Colapietro, and use Johnny Suede for work published under that name. The structured data on every page of this site names Jason Colapietro, with Johnny Suede as the alternate name.
The public record
The canonical Person record at suedeai.ai/founder gives Johnny Suede as the alternate name, and lists Wikidata and the Amazon author page as records of the same person.
- Founder record at suedeai.aiThe canonical record that every page on this site names as its author.
- Wikidata: Jason ColapietroWikidata item Q140235755.
- Jason Colapietro on AmazonThe Amazon author page: books, biography and updates.
- Press fact sheet: questions for an introductionThe press kit's answer to whether Johnny Suede and Jason Colapietro are the same person.