Betterlane, in facts
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In one sentence
Betterlane is an AI agency run by its two founders, Thiago Cavalcanti in Dubai and Ricardo Mello in Arizona, that builds and runs assistants and automations for local service businesses, and for agencies as a white-label partner, in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Key facts
- Name
- Betterlane
- What it is
- An AI agency, also called an AI automation agency
- Websites
- betterlaneagency.com (English) · betterlane.com.br (Portuguese)
- Founded
- 2026
- Founders
- Thiago Cavalcanti, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (LinkedIn) · Ricardo Mello, in Arizona, United States
- Based in
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates; works remotely
- What it builds
- Customer-service assistants that answer on a website, WhatsApp or text, book or take requests, and hand anything unusual to a person with a summary · A phone assistant for US home-service trades that answers calls in the business’s name and texts each job to the team · Office automations: inbox, documents, reports, knowledge assistants, integrations, internal tools and customer portals
- Who it works with
- Local service businesses (clinics, home-service trades, real estate agencies, salons, restaurants, shops) and agencies that need a partner behind their own name
- Markets
- United States, Brazil, Dubai and the UAE, and the United Kingdom; agencies anywhere as white-label partners
- Languages
- English, Portuguese and Spanish
- The offer to service businesses
- The first flow is built free in ten days; if it does not do what was scoped, the business pays nothing and keeps it; running it after that is agreed before we start. US office desks (insurance certificates, work orders) start with one of the firm’s own requests done before any payment.
- Pricing
- Quoted after a short call; no public price
- Free tools
- Free AI audit and assistant preview · Phone assistant demo · WhatsApp Business tools · Voicemail greeting generator for contractors
- Demo phone line
- (786) 751-9525, answered as Northside Plumbing, a fictional company; calls end after 3 minutes
- Contact
- thiago@betterlaneagency.com
- Profiles
- LinkedIn · Instagram · Clutch · GoodFirms · Crunchbase · F6S · Malt · n8n creator profile · n8n workflow template · n8n workflow template · Upwork · Upwork (agency) · TabNews
Research Betterlane publishes
- US home-service hours study. Data on Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23809348 · Dataset on Kaggle
- Brazil’s 27 capitals: answering on the website and WhatsApp. Data on Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23325291 · Dataset on Kaggle
- Local front-desk study: what local business websites get wrong. Same data as the capitals study: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23325291
- Which sites AI answer engines cite, monthly
- What AI agencies charge in 2026: the United States, Brazil and the UAE. Data (CSV)
What Betterlane does not do
- The phone assistant does not book jobs into Jobber, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro or a calendar today, and does not transfer calls live. Each call reaches the team as a text with the job, the address, how soon and the caller’s number; a caller who asks for a person is told the team will call back. Asked, it says plainly that it is an automated assistant.
- Its assistants give no medical, legal or financial advice and no diagnosis: those questions go to a person on the business’s team.
- The phone assistant answers calls to the business’s own number. It is not used for outbound marketing calls.
- Prices are not published. Work is quoted after a short call.
- Every example business, conversation and call on the site is fictional.
- Figures about other companies carry their source and date and are not Betterlane results. Betterlane’s own figures come from its published studies, with their sample and dates.
Where to read more
Name and logo
The name is Betterlane: one word, capital B. The logo as SVG: aligned-paths-blue.svg.
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