Cartesian Systems

Cartesian Systems is an MIT spinout, founded in 2023, that builds indoor spatial intelligence for retail environments. The company combines wireless signal fusion with mobile computer vision to deliver precise indoor positioning and product location insights, addressing the problem of in-store inventory visibility. Its platform requires no new infrastructure and is deployable in minutes rather than months. The underlying technologies are patented.

The company's indoor spatial intelligence platform has been deployed across nearly 700 stores in more than a dozen countries. It is aimed at retail operators, with particular focus on fashion apparel and in-store inventory management, in an industry the company sizes at $35 trillion. The engineering team ships features on a two-week release cadence.

Cartesian Systems is headquartered in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it keeps an in-person team. It was founded by an MIT engineering professor and an alum, and is backed by an NSF SBIR Award. Having taken the technology from research to a live product, the company describes itself as bootstrapped and now in a phase of aggressive scaling.