Factories still run on fragmented legacy control systems that are costly to maintain and hard to extend. Manufacturers need modern software that unifies monitoring, control, and intelligence across operations.
Control Seat addresses this gap with FactoryOS, an AI-native platform for the physical world. Its approach targets industrial operators looking to replace dated control tooling with one integrated system.
Control Seat is an industrial software company building FactoryOS, an AI-native operating system for factories. The platform brings monitoring, control, and intelligence for physical operations into one modern software layer.
The company operates from San Francisco and is backed by Y Combinator in the S26 batch. Its small founding team combines experience from SpaceX, Microsoft, Tesla, and Amazon with roots in the Dartmouth engineering community.
FactoryOS unifies predictive intelligence, SCADA and HMI, virtual PLC control, and operations intelligence in a single platform. Each module addresses a core factory need, from equipment monitoring to supervisory control and operational insight.
Together the modules replace fragmented legacy controls with one coherent system for running industrial facilities. The product is aimed at manufacturers seeking a modern alternative to dated industrial control software.
