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About us

#WinningWithYou since 2005.

Since 2005 the company has been at the frontier of web technologies and business models. We started as the client — hiring agencies, chasing hosting companies — and built the company we wished we could have hired.

2005

Building since

At the frontier of web technology and business models

200+

Businesses served

Award winning businesses call us their preferred partner

50+

Professionals

An award winning team of advisors, engineers and marketers

4

Countries

Singapore, India, the United Kingdom and the United States

01Our story

We started with code. Then we built a better way.

Our journey began in 2005 when we were the clients. We wanted to build our business and started hiring agencies and outsourcing companies. In building our business, we felt the outsourcing model needed a better solution — it needed a partner who was vested in the success of the project.

When we couldn't get great coders, we acquired a team and trained them in systematic models that encouraged sustainability and scalability. When we couldn't get our hosting company to respond 24/7 within 15 minutes, we started our own hosting company. Facing the same challenges as boutique marketing agencies and small businesses, we found that collaboration often yields better results than competition.

By 2013, 80% of the company's 60-person development team was dedicated to creating, maintaining and debugging WordPress sites. Easy as it was for clients, it still needed constant support for bugs, security and browser updates. So we applied our technical expertise to build an easy to use, no-code, Google-optimised website system: FirstSite.

Today the same instinct drives our AI work. We build products we need, prove them in market, and then make that engineering available to the businesses we advise.

02Milestones

Twenty years at the frontier.

  1. 2005

    Pioneering private social networking

    Built one of Singapore's earliest private social networking sites, with a leading healthcare group.

  2. 2006

    ICANN accredited registrar

    Became an ICANN accredited domain registrar and cloud hosting service through Elite Web Agents.

  3. 2011

    TuxSeeDo

    The first location-based social gaming mobile app, used by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore to promote Marina Bay.

  4. 2012

    FirstSite

    Launched a no-code, Google-optimised, Amazon-powered website management system.

  5. 2016

    Venture building division

    Launched to build successful digital businesses alongside non-technical founders.

  6. 2021

    7 figure investment

    Received a 7 figure investment from Hiddan LLC to launch 8X.

  7. 2022

    First Web 3 product

    Mintcubator — a free to use, no-code NFT generator.

  8. 2023

    WinningWithAI

    Launch of the WinningWithAI series of applied AI products.

03Our offices

One team across four countries.

Advisory and venture building in Singapore, application operations in India, infrastructure in the United Kingdom, and AI and SEO advisory in the United States.

Main Office

Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Road, Singapore

Headquarters, advisory and venture building

Application Operations

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Engineering and application delivery

Infrastructure & Hosting

Berkshire, Maidenhead, United Kingdom

Elite Web Agents — domains, cloud and uptime

AI and SEO Advisory

Delaware, United States

The 8X team — search, data and AI advisory

Accreditations

ICANN accredited registrarAmazon Web ServicesVerisign

Work with us

Twenty years of building. Yours could be next.

Whether you need an AI product, better search visibility, or a partner to build the whole business with, start with a conversation.