SPAN is the professional network built for freelancers and microbusinesses, where getting discovered and running your work happen in one place. Free.
Antoine & Joseph, Co-founders of SPAN
We are Antoine and Joseph, two friends who met while studying engineering at the Lebanese University. We grew up in humble families, so like many young Lebanese students, we had to work while we studied. We took whatever job was available: waiter, bartender, tutor, and many others.
But the hardest part was not the work. It was finding it. To find a job, we had to ask around, wait for someone who knew someone, or send messages and hope for an answer. The opportunities existed, but they were scattered and often impossible to find.
The same problem existed on the other side. If you are a client looking for a plumber, a technician, or a mechanic, it works the same way. You ask around for a recommendation and hope the person is good and does quality work.
So one day, Joseph asked Antoine if he knew a good home service professional, and the idea of SPAN came to life:
Why is there no platform, like a social media, where I can find any professional, see the quality of his work the way I check the reviews of a hotel or a business, and contact him directly so we can work together?
We answered that question by building the SPAN app. We saw we could solve two problems at once. First, help people find the help they need from professionals they can trust. Second, help those professionals find new clients and work.
We started building right away. Our first decision was that SPAN would be free to use, with no commission. Why? Because we wanted everyone to have the same chance. If you charge people to find work, the ones who need it most are the ones who cannot pay, and they end up at the back of the line again.
Then we asked how to create more value for service providers. Here we relied on our careers in management consulting, which taught us the problems every business faces. Finding clients. Keeping track of them. Knowing what comes in and what goes out. Managing time and staying organised. So we added tools to SPAN that let service providers handle all of this from their phone.
We built all of this at night and on weekends, while keeping our full time jobs in consulting. We also paid for it ourselves, because a platform that takes no commission has no one else to pay for it.
Today, SPAN is a network that connects independent professionals with clients in Lebanon. It helps them get discovered and connected, and it fills the digital gap for service providers by giving them the tools to run their work from anywhere.
SPAN is still early and improving every day. Our vision is that one day, when you look for work or need to hire a professional, SPAN will be the first place you go, because it gives you the best value for free.
In Lebanon and across the region, hundreds of thousands of skilled professionals, barbers, designers, electricians, photographers, tutors, and many more, run their work without any digital infrastructure. No booking system. No professional profile. No way to build a reputation online.
Finding a trusted professional still runs on word of mouth. Slow, opaque, and limited by geography. SPAN was built to change that, by giving every freelancer a free, professional presence and the tools to manage their work, from day one.
Every alternative does one or the other. Job boards help you get found but offer no tools. Scheduling apps help you manage work but offer no visibility. SPAN combines both in a single, unified experience, and makes it permanently free.
Every freelancer deserves what large businesses take for granted, visibility, tools, and the ability to grow. SPAN makes that accessible to everyone.
Simple tutorials. No technical knowledge required. SPAN works for anyone, from a barber in Beirut to a graphic designer working remotely. If it's complicated, we fix it.
Your work speaks for itself. SPAN amplifies it, putting skilled professionals in front of the clients who are already looking for them.
The tools freelancers need should not come with a price tag. SPAN's core is permanently free, by design, not as a promotion.
SPAN starts in Lebanon, a market where the gap between skilled professionals and the people who need them has never been properly bridged. From day one, our focus is on building tools that freelancers actually need in their daily work: better scheduling, smarter communication, clearer reputation signals, and more ways to get found.
The roadmap is shaped by our users. As SPAN grows, so will the tools, informed by real feedback from the professionals and clients who use the network every day.