Control Seat builds the hardware and software that helps industrial teams see, understand, and run their operations. Our platform creates one clear source of truth across the plant.
Control Seat is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI that runs factories. The founders listed are Warren Shepard (Founder/CEO), Jack Grodnick (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 29, 2026).
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Control Seat builds the hardware and software that helps industrial teams see, understand, and run their operations. Our platform creates one clear source of truth across the plant. It connects the systems teams already use, brings control, monitoring, history, and machine health together, and adds an intelligence layer that continuously watches for meaningful changes. Teams can understand what happened, catch problems earlier, and act before they become downtime. The result is fewer surprises, faster decisions, and less time spent piecing together information across disconnected tools. We work with manufacturers, utilities, energy companies, and other industrial operators modernizing existing facilities or building new ones.
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