We build what we advise
Every recommendation we make has been run through our own ventures first. FirstSite exists because we needed it ourselves.
About us
Award winning digital advisory. Singapore born, since 2005.
8 Connect Consulting helps business owners win online. We advise, we build, and we back digital ventures — with teams across Singapore, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Our story
Twenty years of building on the internet.
We started in 2005 by building one of Singapore's earliest private social networking sites — before the category had a name. A year later we became an ICANN accredited domain registrar. In 2012 we launched FirstSite, a no code, Google optimised, Amazon powered website management system, and in 2016 we opened a venture building division for non-technical founders.
Each of those decades taught us the same lesson: the bottleneck is never the idea, it is the build. FirstSite.AI is our answer to that — and the clearest expression of what this company has always been for.
- Businesses built
200+
Award winning businesses built with FirstSite
- Team
50+
Digital professionals across four offices
Headquarters: Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Road, Singapore.
Milestones
What we have shipped
A short history of the products and decisions that shaped the company.
- 2005
Private social networking, before it had a name
Pioneered one of Singapore's earliest private social networking sites with a leading healthcare group.
- 2006
ICANN accredited registrar and cloud hosting
Launched Elite Web Agents — an ICANN accredited domain registrar and cloud hosting service.
- 2011
Location based social gaming
TuxSeeDo, the first location based social gaming mobile app, used by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore to promote Marina Bay.
- 2012
FirstSite is born
Launched FirstSite — a no code, Google optimized, Amazon powered website management system.
- 2016
Venture building division
Launched to build successful digital businesses with non-technical founders.
- 2021
Seven figure investment
7 figure investment from Hiddan LLC.
- 2022
First Web 3 product
Mintcubator — a free to use, no code NFT generator.
- 2023
#WinningWithAI
Launch of the WinningWithAI series, bringing AI products to business owners.
- Today
FirstSite becomes FirstSite.AI
The no code builder is now an AI platform: describe what you want in plain English and FirstSite builds it.
How we work
Four things we hold to
Business outcome before technology
The stack is a means. We start from what the business needs to win and work backwards.
Non-technical founders welcome
Since 2016 our venture building division has partnered with founders who know their industry, not code.
#WinningWithYou
We take on the digital work so business owners can get back to running their business.
Where we are
Four offices, one team
Advisory in Singapore, operations in Pune, infrastructure in the United Kingdom, AI and SEO in the United States.
- Headquarters
Singapore
Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Road
Advisory, product and venture building
- India
Pune
Maharashtra
Application operations
- United Kingdom
Maidenhead
Berkshire
Elite Web Agents — infrastructure and hosting
- United States
Delaware
Delaware
AI and SEO advisory
Reach
Our PR distribution reaches 500+ news networks
Announcements we publish for clients syndicate across major wire services and news portals.
Including
- AsiaOne
- Associated Press
- Google News
- Yahoo News
- Bloomberg
- Nasdaq
- VC News Network
- MarketWatch
- Fox affiliates
- NBC affiliates
