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Control Seat

Control Seat builds FactoryOS, an AI-native operating system for factories.

San Francisco, CA, US🇺🇸
Founded
2025
Accelerator
Y Combinator logoY CombinatorS26
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Blog

5 pages
  1. Blog/blog

    Product news and engineering stories about Predictive Maintenance, SCADA & HMI, Virtual PLC, and Operations Intelligence from the Control Seat team.

  2. Control Seat Is Becoming an AI-Native Integrator/blog/control-seat-ai-native-integrator

    We're expanding Control Seat from a software product into an AI-native industrial integrator. We bring our platform directly into customer projects and do the integration ourselves, far faster and for far less than the legacy way.

  3. Control Seat Joins Y Combinator/blog/control-seat-joins-y-combinator

    We're excited to announce that Control Seat has been accepted into Y Combinator (S26).

  4. Dartmouth Features Control Seat Co-Founder Warren Shepard/blog/dartmouth-features-warren-shepard

    Dartmouth's CS department sat down with co-founder Warren Shepard to talk about Control Seat, Y Combinator, and why now is the right time to rebuild industrial software from scratch.

Pricing

1 page
  1. Pricing/pricing

    FactoryOS pricing is scoped to the modules, equipment, and deployment you need. Choose from four AI-native modules.

Team

2 pages
  1. Jack Grodnick/about/jack-grodnick

    Jack Grodnick, Co-Founder & CTO of Control Seat.

  2. Warren Shepard/about/warren-shepard

    Warren Shepard, Co-Founder & CEO of Control Seat.

About

1 page
  1. About/about

    Meet the team behind FactoryOS. Control Seat is founded by engineers with experience at Tesla, SpaceX, and Amazon, and backed by Y Combinator.

Contact

1 page
  1. Contact/contact

    Get in touch with the Control Seat team. Request a product demo, ask about enterprise pricing, or get technical support.

Homepage

2 pages
  1. Homepage/

    FactoryOS is the AI operating system for factories. Predictive Maintenance, SCADA & HMI, Virtual PLC, and Operations Intelligence in one modular platform.

  2. Homepage/

    FactoryOS is the AI operating system for factories. Predictive Maintenance, SCADA & HMI, Virtual PLC, and Operations Intelligence in one modular platform.

Privacy

1 page
  1. Privacy/privacy

    How Control Seat collects, uses, and protects your information.

Terms & Conditions

1 page
  1. Terms/terms

    Terms and conditions for using Control Seat products and services.

Coverage

5 items
  1. The Control Stack Without the Glue Codecontrolseat.com/blog/one-stack-under-1000-dollars

    Control Seat launches its Virtual PLC and IPC offering, a unified control stack starting under $1,000. The offering uses one shared tag model and is presented as a control stack without glue code.

    Jul 2026 · Control SeatNews article

  2. Building a Faster Virtual PLCcontrolseat.com/blog/building-a-faster-virtual-plc

    Control Seat compares its virtual PLC engine with CODESYS on identical hardware and reports better performance in nine of ten workloads. The benchmark includes a reproduction kit.

    Jul 2026 · Control SeatNews article

  3. Launching Control Seatcontrolseat.com/blog/control-seat-launch-video

    Control Seat launches from YC S26 with an AI-native SCADA platform to unify the industrial control stack.

    Jul 2026 · Control SeatNews article

  4. Student Startup Secures Y Combinator Fundingweb.cs.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06/student-startup-secures-y-combinator-funding

    Dartmouth Computer Science reports on student startup Control Seat securing Y Combinator funding.

    Jun 2026 · Dartmouth Computer ScienceNews article