The company is positioned as a Location Intelligence platform due to its tools for geospatial data analysis and visualization that do not require advanced GIS or development experience.

CARTO is a cloud-first geospatial platform explicitly developed for accelerated and contemporary Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

It operates on diverse cloud data warehouse platforms including Google BigQuery, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Databricks, among others.

[7] The CARTO platform consists of several components, ranging from browser-based applications built using React and TypeScript, to REST APIs and libraries that allow geospatial analysis and visualization on top of cloud data warehouses using SQL.

The web application called Builder is where users run analysis to create interactive dashboards and design custom map visualizations.

CARTO integrates lightweight data formats such as Spatial Indexes (H3 and Quadbin) and dynamic tile sets for efficient processing and analysis of large-scale geographical information.

This toolbox encompasses over 100 sophisticated spatial functions categorized into distinct modules like tiler, data, clustering, and statistics, among others.

There is a specific CARTO Analytics Toolbox with different functions and modules depending on the cloud data warehouse.

By using native SQL code, developers can build advanced logic, data widgets, and powerful analyses inside their geospatial applications.