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AI Consulting in Lebanon

For businesses in Beirut and across Lebanon that repeat the same manual work every day and want an AI system that does it instead. One consultant, three clearly scoped offers, a fixed price before anything is built.

David Geha · Independent AI consultant · Beirut, Lebanon · English, Arabic, French

Based in
Beirut, Lebanon
Works with
Agencies · F&B · Founders
Engagement
48-h audit → 2-week sprint
Pricing
Fixed, agreed up front

AI consulting in Lebanon usually means one of two things: a strategy deck from a large firm, or a developer who will build whatever you describe. Neither is what most Lebanese businesses need. Agencies with eight people, restaurant groups with three outlets and founders running lean cannot absorb a six-month transformation programme, and they should not have to specify a system they have never seen.

My practice sits in between. I audit how your team actually works, find the tasks that repeat every day, and then design and build the agentic AI system that takes them over. The same person who diagnoses the problem writes the code, so nothing is lost between the recommendation and the delivery. You get a number for the hours saved, not a roadmap.

I am an independent consultant based in Beirut, not an AI consulting company or agency. That is deliberate: it keeps the price where a Lebanese SME can justify it and keeps you talking to the person doing the work. If you are comparing AI consulting firms in Lebanon, the guide explains where a solo practitioner fits and where a larger firm is the better choice.

01

48-hour AI audit

Fixed fee · 2 working days

A structured look at how your team spends its week. I sit with the people doing the work, map every repeated task, and score each one for automation potential, risk and payback.

  • Written audit: what to automate first, what to leave alone, why
  • A scoped plan and fixed price for the first build
  • Yours to keep, whoever you build with
What happens in the audit →
02

2-week build sprint

Fixed price · scoped in the audit

One system, built and put into production: a lead-outreach engine, a reporting pipeline, an ad-creative generator, a custom CRM or an internal agent. Your team is using it by the end of week two.

  • Built on Supabase, Vercel, Claude and GitHub — you own the code and the data
  • Logs, dashboard and a handover session included
  • Two weeks of fixes after go-live
See the systems I build →
03

Monthly retainer

Optional · month to month

For teams that want the systems to keep improving. A fixed number of hours each month for new automations, tuning, and being the person your team messages when they think "could this be automated?"

  • Priority response on WhatsApp
  • Monthly review of hours saved and what to automate next
  • Cancel any month
How this compares to market prices →

Day one: watch the work

I spend the first day with the people who actually do the repeated tasks, not only the owner. In an agency that is usually the account manager building the weekly client report and the person copying leads into a spreadsheet. In a restaurant group it is whoever reconciles the POS export, chases suppliers on WhatsApp and rewrites the daily sales summary. I record each task: how often, how long, what tools, what breaks.

Day two: score and scope

Every task gets three scores: hours per month, how mechanical it is, and what goes wrong if the automation makes a mistake. High hours, high mechanical, low risk goes first. Anything that touches money movement or legal commitments gets a human approval step or stays manual. You get a one-page map and a fixed price for the first sprint.

What you leave with

  • A written audit you can hand to any developer or AI consulting firm in Lebanon
  • A prioritised list with an estimated hours-saved figure per item
  • A scoped, priced plan for one build sprint, with no obligation to continue

The audit fee is credited against the sprint if you go ahead. If the audit finds nothing worth automating, you have a clear answer and a document that says why.

Marketing agencies in Beirut and beyond

Five to thirty people, several retainer clients, and a founder who still touches every report. The usual first builds: an outreach engine that sources and researches leads and sends personalised first emails, a research pipeline that produces competitor and SEO briefs, and an ad-creative pipeline that turns a brief into on-brand visuals ready for Meta Ads.

Restaurants, cafés and F&B groups

Multiple outlets, a POS that exports CSVs nobody reads, supplier orders on WhatsApp, and a daily report someone builds by hand. Typical first build: the daily sales and inventory summary produced automatically every morning, with supplier follow-ups drafted and waiting for approval.

Founders and small teams

Anyone running a company where the same three tasks eat the afternoon. If you can describe the task in a sentence and it happens every day, it is probably a candidate.

Not a fit

Enterprise AI strategy, regulated banking or healthcare deployments, or a general "digital transformation" mandate. For those, a larger firm with compliance and change-management capacity is the right call, and the guide lists who they are. I also do not build chatbots for their own sake; if a chatbot is the right answer it is usually a small part of a larger workflow.

I am a Civil & Environmental Engineering student at the American University of Beirut who has been building agentic systems for Lebanese businesses since 2025. Engineering training shows up in the work: define the load before designing the beam, measure before and after, and never ship something you cannot inspect. Every system I build logs what it did and hands exceptions to a person.

The stack is boring on purpose. Supabase for data, Vercel for hosting, Claude for the reasoning steps, GitHub for the code. All of it sits in your accounts, so if we stop working together nothing stops working. You can read more about the systems on the AI solutions page and about me on the about page.

I work in English, Arabic and French, in person around Beirut and remotely across Lebanon and the GCC.

How much does AI consulting cost in Lebanon?

With me, the audit is a fixed fee for two days, the build sprint is a fixed price scoped in that audit, and the retainer is a flat monthly amount you can cancel any month. You always know the number before work starts. For the wider market, Lebanese providers publicly list anything from roughly $1,500 for an audit to $25,000 or more for enterprise workflow projects; the guide breaks those bands down.

How long does an engagement take?

Two working days for the audit, two weeks for the first build sprint. Most clients have a system running inside a month of the first call. Larger builds such as a full custom CRM are split into consecutive sprints so something ships every two weeks.

Do I need technical staff on my side?

No. You need one person who knows how the work is done today and can spend a few hours with me during the audit, and an owner who can approve the plan. I handle the accounts, the deployment and the handover, and I train whoever will use the system.

Is my data safe, and where does it run?

Everything runs in accounts you own: your Supabase database, your Vercel project, your API keys. I have access while we work and you can revoke it at any point. Nothing is trained on your data, and anything sensitive stays out of prompts unless we decide together that it is needed.

Will it work in Arabic and English?

Yes. The systems handle Arabic, English and French text, including mixed messages the way people actually write on WhatsApp in Lebanon. Outputs can be produced in whichever language the recipient uses.

Consultant, agency or freelancer: which do I need?

A freelancer builds what you specify. An agency sells you their product. A consultant works out what you should build and, in my case, then builds it. If you already know exactly what you want, a freelancer is cheaper. If you need a full-scale transformation programme, an agency or firm has the capacity. If you want the repetitive work found and removed with a clear payback, that is what this page is for.

Do you work outside Beirut?

Yes. I am based in Beirut and meet clients in person around the city, and I work remotely with businesses across Lebanon and the GCC. The audit can be done over calls and screen shares when travel is not practical.

Start with the 48-hour audit.

Tell me the task your team is most tired of. I will tell you within a day whether it is worth automating and what it would cost.