

CTO & CIO · Tech stack & vendors
Pablo Novelo
Picks the stack. Manages the vendors.
Pablo is CTO & CIO. He decides which technology stack Betterside runs on and manages the outside vendors who build and maintain it. He doesn't write the code or run the systems himself — he picks the tools and holds the partners who do accountable. One of the four founding partners.
Local crew
Born and raised here
Four partners
Hands-on every visit
First visit free
If you're not thrilled
No contracts
Pause anytime
How Pablo thinks about the work
“If the crew shows up with the right tools and the customer hears from a real person before the truck arrives, the stack did its job.”
The full story
Who Pablo is and what they own.
Pablo is CTO & CIO. While Matt runs the customer calendar, Brook holds operations and cleaning, Ben holds construction, Josh holds the visual brand, and Danny holds the voice, Pablo decides which technology stack Betterside runs on and manages the outside vendors who build it. He's the one who answers "what are we using and who's building it" — not the one writing the code.
What that looks like in practice: when there's a call to make about which tool the company adopts, which platform the team trusts, or which build partner to bring on, that call goes to Pablo. Frontend Horizon and the other outside builders who ship the day-to-day work all answer to him.
His scope is the technology layer end-to-end — what Betterside runs on and who's responsible for keeping it running. He doesn't show up on a truck and he doesn't write tickets in the admin portal himself; he owns the decisions behind both.
If you ever wonder why the experience of working with Betterside feels different from a traditional lawn or cleaning service — the texts that actually arrive, the photos after every visit, the single-invoice billing across multiple addresses — that's the stack Pablo picked and the vendors he holds accountable.
The other officers
The officers Pablo works alongside.

President
Matt Snider
Every walkthrough runs through Matt.

VP of Operations
Brook Newland
Holds cleaning and the week behind every visit.

VP of Construction
Ben Bowers
The licensed GC behind every build.

CMO
Danny Jackson
The voice you've read up to this point.

Creative Director
Josh Grounds
Holds the image of every job we run.

CEO
John Cravey
Sets the strategy, then steps back.
Want Pablo on your property?
Six tap-through questions in the estimator. If the property qualifies, Matt books the walkthrough himself.
