CARTO agent now in Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery

Apr 23, 2026

5 mins read

Opening a new breakfast restaurant costs over $1 million. That number is not unusual. For most enterprises, choosing where to grow is one of the most expensive decisions they make. It has traditionally required deep GIS expertise, weeks of analysis, and input from technical teams that are almost always overloaded.

Today, that changes. At Google Cloud Next 2026, CARTO is proud to be one of the first geospatial partners to launch an Agent as a Service (AaaS) in the Agent Gallery inside the Gemini Enterprise app. It’s available now and already helping enterprise teams accelerate location decisions. Most importantly, it has passed Google’s highest advanced governance standards for security and accuracy. For enterprise teams, this means one less thing to worry about.

Want to learn more? Check out CARTO listed as a key partner on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace launch or reach out to the CARTO team.

What is Agent as a Service?

Agent as a Service is a model where specialized, third-party partner AI agents are made available as ready-to-use services on a cloud platform. Rather than building a custom agent from scratch, your organization gets immediate access to a purpose-built expert: one that has already been developed, tested, and vetted, and that brings years of domain knowledge you would otherwise have to build yourself.

For CARTO, that domain is geospatial analysis. Our Site Selection Agent brings years of spatial expertise into your Google Cloud environment, without any build time, and without your team needing to know anything about GIS or geospatial analytics to use it.

How is it different?

Gemini Enterprise is the secure, centralized platform that hosts and runs agents your team builds inside your organization. Agents as a Service (AaaS) are ready out-of-the-box specialized agents approved by Google Cloud that hold deep expertise and domain knowledge for specific use cases ready to run in Gemini Enterprise.

💡 In short: Gemini Enterprise is the platform, and CARTO’s Site Selection Agent is the specialist you tag in when the question is “where?” and “why?”

Here are some key differences between building your own Gemini Enterprise agents and accessing a specialized agent from Google’s deep partner network:

Primary use. AaaS agents go deep on a specific domain, geospatial analysis in CARTO’s case. Gemini Enterprise agents are built for broader internal workflow automation across your organization.
Development. AaaS agents are carefully reviewed by Google Cloud, so you get the expertise without building anything yourself. Gemini Enterprise also lets your own teams build custom agents via a no-code builder or the Agent Development Kit.
Security. Gemini Enterprise brings native VPC Service Controls, IAM, and Customer-Managed Encryption Keys. AaaS agents on the platform inherit those protections, which is exactly why Google’s security review matters.

From complex geospatial analysis to simple conversation

The CARTO Site Selection Agent as a Service (AaaS) turns spatial analytics into approachable conversations, regardless of technical ability. Leaders across your organization, whether that’s an expansion planner, a business analyst, marketing manager, or a regional director, can now ask location questions and get answers backed by real geospatial analysis, without writing a line of code or opening a GIS tool.

In practice, this means you’re able to now quickly answer strategic and operational business questions like:

“Which markets in the US Southeast look most similar to our top five locations?”
“I’m looking to expand my business to Florida. Can you help me identify the best locations?”
“Can you compare these two potential sites against each other and my existing high-performing stores?”

CARTO Site Selection Agent comparing two potential sites

The agent runs spatial analysis across multiple datasets and returns results as interactive maps, similarity rankings, and detailed reports. It does in minutes what traditionally takes a specialist analyst weeks.

Direct Site Comparison: Compare specific candidate sites against your best-performing existing locations. The agent evaluates point-of-interest similarity, demographic fit, and competitive proximity to give each site a clear suitability assessment.

Market Discovery and Expansion Planning: Run state-wide or regional searches to find new high-potential markets based on commercial and demographic criteria, without needing to know in advance where to look.

CARTO Site Selection Agent identifying expansion opportunities

Using Google data you know and trust

Results are only as good as the data behind them. The CARTO Site Selection AI Agent draws on leading data sources integrated with the Google Cloud ecosystem:

Google Maps Platform’s Places Insights quantify the business ecosystem around each candidate site: what competitors are nearby and what the commercial context is.
Google Maps Platform’s Population Dynamics Insights add predictive depth beyond static demographics, pulling in lifestyle patterns, behavioral signals, and growth trends that census data alone cannot capture.

What makes this combination powerful is that no single data source tells the full story. Places Insights provides the signal for commercial activity. Foot traffic data tells you whether people are generally nearby. Population Dynamics Insights help you understand and predict shifts in human activity and behavioral trends across geographic areas over time. Running all three together, in a single analysis, is something that would take a team days to assemble manually. The agent does it in minutes.

The Gemini Enterprise advantage

Running CARTO Site Selection AI Agent in the Agent Gallery inside the Gemini Enterprise app provides four key benefits:

Seamless automation & speed: The agent eliminates time-consuming manual processes, by automatically unifying multiple datasets into a single, actionable interface, reducing days of work into minutes.
Democratized access: By removing the need for coding & GIS expertise, advanced geospatial analysis is no longer confined to technical teams; business users can now directly engage with data to find the answers they need.
Unified & secure: CARTO Site Selection Agent as a Service operates seamlessly while your data never leaves the security of your Google Cloud environment.
Performance at scale: Leverage scalable, parallel processing and compute with Google BigQuery. CARTO deployed natively within Google Cloud enables rapid analysis of massive geospatial datasets in seconds, avoiding the bottlenecks and limited performance common to legacy desktop GIS tools constrained by single-machine hardware.

“To deliver real impact from agentic AI, customers need a simple, trusted way to interact with specialized domain data using intelligent agents like the CARTO Site Selection AI Agent. By making this agent accessible through Gemini Enterprise, we’re giving customers greater flexibility to apply spatial intelligence to their expansion strategies and turn complex geospatial data into meaningful business value.”
— Satish Thomas, Vice President, Applied AI & Platform Ecosystem, Google Cloud

Where Site Selection matters

Every industry makes critical decisions about where to grow, whether opening new stores, optimizing distribution networks, or investing in new developments. With CARTO’s Site Selection AI Agent, these decisions are no longer guided by gut instinct or static spreadsheets, but by dynamic, data-driven insights.

Here’s how different sectors are already leveraging Location Intelligence to level-up their expansion strategies:

Retail & CPG: identify untapped markets, forecast store revenue, and optimize product risk.
Real estate: assess commercial viability, pinpoint ideal development locations, and identify undervalued markets.
Logistics & supply chain: optimize your warehouse & fulfillment center network, improve fleet efficiency, and mitigate supply chain risks.
Financial services: plan optimal branch & ATM placement, assess property risk & discover high potential markets.

Try the CARTO Site Selection AI Agent — for free!

CARTO has worked with Google Cloud for years to bring Location Intelligence into the data environments for the world’s largest organizations. This is part of a bigger mission: making geospatial analytics accessible to every team, in every organization, anywhere in the world. Not just the ones with dedicated GIS specialists.

Being part of the Gemini Enterprise app as Agent as a Service means CARTO is available inside the tools enterprise teams already use. Spatial analysis stops being a specialist function behind a ticket queue and becomes a strategic growth lever to move the mission of the organization forward.

You can find the CARTO Site Selection AI Agent on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Try it for free, or request a demo to talk through how it fits into your Google Cloud environment.