Company

Cartesian Theatre Corp. (CT) is a Vancouver-based independent software vendor (ISV). It was federally incorporated in Canada in 2009 with roots predating its incorporation as an extension of the founder’s private sector consulting work for industry, predominantly in the United States.

CT has obtained expertise over more than a decade in a wide range of diverse software problem domains. These have included aerospace, artificial intelligence, gaming, bio–technology, digital audio, cryptography, distributed systems, simulation, and space science to name a few.

Engineering services have been provided in Canada, the United States, and abroad in China. Customers have included a multitude of small firms all the way to Digital Theatre Systems, Mozilla, Google, Wells Fargo and others.

In late 2013 CT developed the technology to recover substantial portions of NASA’s billion dollar mission data from the first successful mission to the surface of Mars. CT’s technology was subsequently cited by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In 2015 CT’s ultra high definition digital surround sound technology was showcased internationally at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, the premier venue for some of the world’s most sophisticated next generation technology.

In 2017 CT collaborated with the National Research Council of Canada to develop agent-based social simulation technology to simulate artificial life in large cities to model traffic flow, crime, pollution, gentrification, education, economy, and more.

In late 2024, Canada was named Country of the Year by VivaTech, Europe’s largest technology conference held annually in Paris. In April 2025 CT was selected to join Canada’s national trade delegation to VivaTech. Of the 14,000 startups present, only 12 were highlighted in the field of artificial intelligence, which included CT. While in Paris CT was recognized by Canada’s federal Minister of AI as a critical component of Canada’s new economic foreign policy.

In May 2025 CT was awarded Company of the Year by BC Tech. In July 2025 CT was identified among the top 100 AI Startups in Canada.

CT’s name is borrowed from philosopher Daniel Dennett’s contribution to the field of philosophy of mind. It serves as a reminder that the outstanding and most interesting problems of artificial intelligence remain interdisciplinary in nature and are not limited to computing science.