Control Seat

About

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.

Founders

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  Jack Grodnick· Founder

  Building a modern SCADA builder to control and monitor factory hardware and replace legacy systems. On leave from Dartmouth to build Control Seat. Previously at Tesla, SpaceX, and Amazon.

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  Warren Shepard· Founder

  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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Product launches · 1 launch

• Control Seat: the operating system for the physical world. ↗▲ 3Jul 9, 2026

  An AI-native controls (SCADA) platform and integration service.

Change history · 10 recorded

1. August 22, 2026
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3. July 19, 2026
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