Welcome to the Carta Knowledge Center
Carta preserves the context, reasoning, and relationships that make scientific and operational data valuable — not just as records, but as durable organizational knowledge.
Built for Your Whole Organization
Carta serves every role in the research and operational lifecycle — from the people doing the work to the teams responsible for keeping it secure and scalable.
Researchers
Capture experimental data in context, trace results back to the protocols that produced them, and collaborate across institutional boundaries — without managing file formats or coordinating infrastructure with every partner.
Managers
Maintain visibility across your team's workflows and ensure every result is traceable to the process that generated it. Carta gives you oversight without creating bottlenecks for the people doing the work.
IT / Security
Carta's identity-aware access model, SSO integration, and graph-based permissions give you control over who sees what — across users, automated systems, and partner organizations — without requiring shared infrastructure between them.
Developers
Build services, automate workflows, and integrate external systems using PyCarta and Scaffold. Every service runs under the same permission-gated, identity-aware access model that governs the rest of the platform.
New to Carta?
Start with the Platform Overview to understand what Carta is and how its components fit together before diving into specific guides.
- About Us — who we are and where we work
- Why Carta Exists — the problem and the solution
- The Carta Platform — component map and roles
- How Carta Works — the four-stage workflow pattern
- Access and Trust — how Carta handles identity and authorization
- Your Data — data ownership and storage
- Glossary — definitions for key terms
See Carta in Practice
Real-world scenarios showing how organizations use Carta across different workflows and roles.
Getting Started
- Request a Carta Account
- Login with Your Organization's SSO
- Creating a New Carta User (Admin Tools)
- Get started with DEXR
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions or need support? Contact us at customer.service@contextualize.us.com.