For businesses and government agencies

Do more with what you have.

Cartesian Dataworks uses data, data science, and AI/ML to help businesses and government agencies optimize resources and expand what their teams can do.

The experience behind the company: our founder's work before Cartesian Dataworks.

15+years: leading data, analytics, and AI in one of the most heavily regulated industries
~1,500systems: unified in a single automated privacy-compliance program
95%+faster: cycle time delivered by that automation, with seven-figure savings
55%faster: processing on a federal loan program, adopted as a national standard

What we do

Software you can trust. Experience to put it to work.

Products

Focused software for specific jobs, built on one standard: answers and decisions you can trace back to the source.

Cartesian Compass^™
Available for pilots
Cited answers for the public, drawn only from your organization's official documents, plus a report on the content that needs attention.
Cartesian Intake^™
Available as a custom build
Photos, PDFs, and scans in; clean, structured data out, delivered to the spreadsheets and systems you already use.
Cartesian Logistix^™
Pilot underway
Plans the day or the whole week for small service teams: which day each client is seen, in what order, and at what time. Fewer miles, and minutes of planning instead of hours.

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Innovation & Transformation

Hands-on help modernizing how work gets done, from finding the right opportunities to building and piloting the solution with your team.

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Who we serve

For organizations where getting it wrong has consequences.

Government and public agencies

Cities, counties, and public agencies that need the public and their own employees to get accurate, current answers, without staff spending their day repeating them.

Regulated industries

Organizations where every decision may be audited, and AI has to be explainable, governed, and defensible.

Service businesses

Growing teams with people on the road visiting clients and schedules held together by spreadsheets, ready for tools that pay for themselves.

How we work

Four rules we don't bend.

Your sources only

Our software works from the data and documents you trust, never from guesses or the open web.

Always traceable

Every answer, number, and recommendation can be traced back to where it came from.

Honest about limits

When the data doesn't support an answer, we say so. That includes telling you when AI isn't the right tool.

Governed from day one

Privacy, access control, and an audit trail are designed in from the start, not added for a compliance review.

How we protect your data

Leadership

“I stay close enough to the architecture and the code to catch what's wrong, and to know what's actually possible.”

Chad Dahlheimer

Founder & Principal, Cartesian Dataworks

Before founding Cartesian Dataworks, Chad spent more than fifteen years building data, analytics, and AI capabilities in financial services, most recently as Vice President of AI and Data Science at a top-5 U.S. bank. Earlier, Chad built data infrastructure for a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs loan program.

MIT
Professional Certificate in ML & AI, plus a certificate in agentic AI
M.S.
Data Science, Oklahoma State
M.B.A.
University of Minnesota, Carlson
U.S. Navy
Veteran

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Let's talk about what you're trying to solve.

Tell us where your organization is losing time, or where people can't get a straight answer. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.