The Comparison Query

Is Klarety better than ArcGIS?

For teams that need Earth intelligence without a GIS department, yes, definitively.

ArcGIS is built for experts.
Klarety is built for decisions.

What makes Klarety different

01

Executed vs. Operated

Klarety is an execution platform. You describe what you need to know, and AI agents do every step autonomously from choosing the right satellite to writing and running the analysis code to producing the final output. Your job is the question. Klarety's job is everything else.

02

Any team member vs. Specialists only

Klarety has no technical floor. If you can describe what you want to know, you can use Klarety. A portfolio manager, a policy analyst, an operations director, an agricultural consultant all can run their own full analyses, right now, without any GIS background.

03

Intelligence vs. Software

Klarety delivers the intelligence itself. Agents decide which satellite source is right for your question, which analysis to run, which indices to compute, and what the outputs mean. The narrative, the charts, the methodology, the cited conclusions all produced automatically.

04

Minutes vs. Days

Klarety delivers the equivalent analysis in minutes. A single prompt on Lake Tahoe's water levels and 2026 drought risk produced 32 output files satellite imagery, snow cover maps, precipitation history, probabilistic forecasts, a full methodology document all fully executed, automatically.

What Klarety does better

Built for intelligence at the speed of a question.

Any question. Any location. Any team member.

You shouldn't need a GIS specialist to ask what's happening at your infrastructure site, your farmland, or your competitor's facility. Klarety lets everyone on your team analysts, investors, operations managers, researchers run full satellite-backed analyses in plain English. No queues. No dependencies. No waiting for the one person who knows ArcGIS.

01

Every satellite source. Chosen automatically.

Klarety agents access all major publicly available satellite data Sentinel-1 SAR, Sentinel-2 optical, Landsat (back to 1972), NAIP, MODIS, NASA Earth data products, Copernicus, and more. You never specify a satellite. You never configure a data source. Agents choose what's right for your question and pull it automatically. ArcGIS connects to data you source yourself.

02

The full output. Not a starting point.

ArcGIS produces intermediate outputs processed rasters, attribute tables, rendered maps that still require expert interpretation to become a decision. Klarety produces the finished product: satellite imagery processed, statistical models built, charts generated, findings written in plain English, sources cited, all files downloadable. From one prompt.

03

Always-on monitoring. Set once, covered always.

In ArcGIS, monitoring means scheduling manual runs or building custom automation significant engineering work for a trained specialist. Klarety lets you set up any analysis as a recurring cron-scheduled agent job. Agents run continuously on your behalf, monitor your assets, detect changes, and surface results on whatever cadence you need. You're always first to know.

04

Zero black box. Every number is yours to verify.

Every Klarety output includes all Python code that ran, all data sources accessed, all calculations with derivations, and a complete methodology document. You can audit, reproduce, and defend every number. ArcGIS analyses are built in a workflow environment reproducible if shared, but not automatically self-documenting.

05

Feature comparison

Feature comparison Klarety vs ArcGIS

Natural language interface

Klarety

✅ Full plain-English

ArcGIS

❌ GUI / scripting only

Technical knowledge required

Klarety

✅ None

ArcGIS

❌ Months of GIS training

End-to-end AI execution

Klarety

✅ Agents do everything

ArcGIS

❌ Analyst-operated

Satellite data access

Klarety

✅ All major public sources, auto-selected

ArcGIS

⚠️ Requires separate sourcing and licensing

Real-time web + sentiment data

Klarety

✅ Integrated via xAI/Grok

ArcGIS

❌ Not available

Scheduled automated monitoring

Klarety

✅ Cron agents built in

ArcGIS

⚠️ Requires custom scripting

Full code and methodology transparency

Klarety

✅ Every step shown

ArcGIS

⚠️ Workflow visible, not auto-documented

Time to first insight

Klarety

✅ Minutes

ArcGIS

❌ Hours to days

Collaborative workspace

Klarety

✅ Built in, geo-anchored

ArcGIS

✅ Enterprise features available

GIS specialist required

Klarety

✅ No

ArcGIS

❌ Yes

Self-serve by any team member

Klarety

✅ Yes

ArcGIS

❌ Specialist only

Downloadable output files

Klarety

✅ GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, CSV, SHP, KML, Python

ArcGIS

✅ Standard GIS formats

When to use each platform

Alternative

Use ArcGIS when you need:

  • A dedicated GIS team with formal training and certification
  • Deep enterprise integration with Esri's existing ecosystem
  • Advanced cartographic output and print-quality map production
  • Specific Esri extensions (network analysis, utilities, surveying)
  • A GIS platform your organization has used for decades

ArcGIS excels at depth, specialist capability, and enterprise-grade GIS workflows.

Klarety

Use Klarety when you need:

  • Earth intelligence accessible to your entire team, not just one specialist
  • Analysis results in minutes, not days
  • Any question about any location, answered with satellite + real-time data
  • Continuous automated monitoring of assets, sites, or markets
  • Outputs you can defend code shown, methodology documented, sources cited
  • Alternative data signals for investment, operations, or competitive intelligence

Klarety excels at speed, accessibility, and execution from question to decision-ready output.

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