stageconnect.asia  ·  our story

built for
every artist.
across asia.

Singers, DJs, comedians, dancers, speakers, emcees, actors, RJs, VJs and more. One platform. Direct bookings. Zero commission. Always.

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the story

started with one problem. still solving it.

We built StageConnect™ Asia because we kept seeing the same problem play out across India, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Talented artists — singers, DJs, comedians, dancers, emcees, speakers, actors, RJs, VJs — spending more time chasing opportunities through middlemen than actually performing.

Agents taking cuts. Platforms optimised for algorithms, not artists. No clear way for an organiser to find the right performer and just reach out directly. The whole system was working against the people doing the actual work.

So we built the infrastructure that should have existed already. A platform where every category of performing artist gets a proper page, a public profile, a booking enquiry system, and a dashboard that gives them full visibility into every request that comes in.

No commission. No gatekeeping. No algorithm deciding who gets seen. You list, organisers find you, the conversation starts directly.

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Built for every artist who is serious about their work and tired of how the industry moves around them. Singers to speakers. Dancers to DJs. Tamil rap to classical. Asia-wide.
stageconnect™ asia — 2026
0%
commission on every booking, brand deal, podcast or collab. Always.
direct
enquiries from organisers and brands land straight on your artist page. No forwarding, no spin.
Asia
starting in India, Malaysia and Singapore. Growing market by market.
yours
every enquiry, every BKG reference, every organiser who ever reached out — your history, your data.
what we stand for

three things we will never compromise on.

0%
zero commission. always.
We charge a flat platform fee, never a percentage of your bookings. A €500 show and a €50,000 show cost the same to list. That is the whole model and it is never changing.
direct
your connection is yours.
Every enquiry, every reference ID, every organiser and brand that ever reached out — that history belongs to you. Not to an agent. Not to a manager. Not to us. You see everything, you control everything, and that is the whole point.
open
transparent by default.
Our pricing is public. Our policies are published. Our commission is permanently zero. There is nothing hidden in the platform and nothing that will change quietly in the background. What you see is what it is.
behind the build

built in the open.
no funding. no agency.

StageConnect™ Asia was designed and built by Shanth — independently, without outside funding, without a team, without a pitch deck. Just a problem that needed solving and a refusal to wait for someone else to solve it.

Every part of this platform was built to a single standard: it has to work for the artist, every time, without fail. The infrastructure is hosted on enterprise-grade systems backed by Google and Cloudflare, the same global networks that power some of the most trusted products in the world.

Your data is encrypted, protected and stored securely. It is never sold, never used for advertising, and never shared with third parties. Not now, not when we scale, not ever. That is not a policy footnote. It is the reason this platform exists.

This is not a startup burning through runway. It is a platform built to last, and built to protect the people on it.

The Problem
Artists across Asia — singers, comedians, DJs, dancers, speakers, emcees, RJs, VJs, actors — were losing income to agents, losing visibility to algorithms, losing control of their own career. There was no platform built for all of them, together.
The Decision
Build it. No waiting for a co-founder, no waiting for funding. A working platform, built independently, that proves the model before the money.
The Stack
Google Sheets as the database. Apps Script for automation. Custom token auth. Hand-coded HTML, CSS and vanilla JS. No frameworks. No dependencies that expire.
Live & Growing
The platform is live. Artists are onboarding. Booking enquiries are landing. Every feature added is built around what artists and the people behind them actually need.
What Comes Next
More artist pages, verified badges, application tracking, manager tools and market expansion across Asia. Built in the open, one thing at a time.
how we are different

four things that are not normal in this industry.

0% commission. not a launch offer.
Most platforms start free and take a cut later. We do not take commission. Not now, not when we grow, not when we raise. It is the entire point of the platform and the one thing that will never change.
direct. always direct.
No agent forwarding messages with their own spin on it. The organiser or brand reaches you through your page, and you or your manager respond directly. The relationship is yours from the first message.
your booking history is yours.
Every BKG reference, every enquiry, every brand that ever reached out — it lives in your dashboard, not an agent’s inbox. If you leave tomorrow, you take all of it with you.
one page. every opportunity.
Live shows, brand deals, podcast features, creative collabs — a single artist page handles all of it. Organisers and brands fill in a proper brief. You get a structured enquiry with a reference ID, not a DM.
where this is going

built for every kind
of performing artist.

Asia has some of the most talented independent artists in the world. They deserve infrastructure that is built for them — not adapted from a Western model that was never designed with them in mind.

India Malaysia Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Philippines Vietnam Hong Kong
Artist pages for every category and every opportunity. Singers, live bands, DJs, VJs, instrumentalists, comedians, dancers, emcees, RJs, serial actors, ads actors, music video actors, and speakers. Tamil rap to classical, stand-up to Bharatanatyam — one link, every booking covered.
Application tracking. Artists and managers can check the status of an onboarding application at any time using the unique APP ID. No more wondering where things stand.
Manager access. A single manager account that oversees multiple artist dashboards, enquiries and bookings — for the people who work behind more than one artist.
Verified badges. Artists who have completed verified shows earn a badge on their profile. A small signal that means a lot to the organisers browsing your page.
Market expansion. Every new market added is a new set of organisers and brands who can discover and book artists on the platform. Growing market by market, with purpose.

ready to own your bookings directly?

Singer, DJ, comedian, dancer, speaker, emcee, actor or anything in between — if you perform, there is a page here with your name on it. No agent. No commission. Just direct bookings.

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