Manufacturing industrial

Control Seat

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously C42

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Warren Shepard

Founder/CEO

Building a modern SCADA system to control and monitor factory hardware and replace legacy systems. Previously at Dartmouth ('26), SpaceX (Starlink), and Microsoft (security).

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Jack Grodnick

Founder/CTO

Building Control Seat, the AI-native controls and monitoring stack for industry. We help industrial teams connect plant systems, understand what changed, catch problems earlier, and run operations with fewer surprises. On leave from Dartmouth. Previously at Tesla, SpaceX, and Amazon.

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Founded 2025 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Launched · 4 of 6 areas documented

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The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-11-02 · Company website: home Checked 2026-11-02

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