Control Seat
AI that runs factories.
About Control Seat
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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Graduating from Dartmouth and building Control Seat in YC S26
Warren Shepard announces his Dartmouth graduation and that he is building Control Seat in Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch.
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Control Seat is officially live.
Control Seat is officially live. Building the future of industrial automation. 🚀 #IndustrialAutomation #SCADA #PLC #Manufacturing #Industry40
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Control Seat is officially live. Building the future of industrial automation. 🚀 #IndustrialAutomation #SCADA #PLC #Manufacturing #industry40
Control Seat is officially live. Building the future of industrial automation. 🚀 #IndustrialAutomation #SCADA #PLC #Manufacturing #industry40
- Instagram
There is a problem in industrial automation. Too much of the software stack is tied to proprietary hardware, expensive licensing, and tools that don’t integrate cleanly! Plants often end up stitching together PLCs, SCADA, historians, dashboards, alarms, and AI from multiple vendors. A stack that can easily cost over $100,000. Today we are launching our Virtual PLC and preconfigured industrial PCs to bring it all into one platform. You can run it on your own supported Linux hardware or use one of our preconfigured industrial PCs. Either way, you can get started for under $1,000. P.S. The hardware commands in this demo travel from San Francisco to Virginia and back before actuating the device. We also support fully on-prem deployments. The platform is free to try for one week. We’d love your honest feedback, especially from the automation community! controlseat.com #IndustrialAutomation #SCADA #PLC #EdgeComputing #industry40
There is a problem in industrial automation. Too much of the software stack is tied to proprietary hardware, expensive licensing, and tools that don’t integrate cleanly! Plants often end up stitching together PLCs, SCADA, historians, dashboards, alarms, and AI from multiple...
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Control Seat Virtual PLC Demo | IEC 61131-3 PLC Running on a Linux Industrial PC
In this video, we demonstrate the Control Seat Virtual PLC running natively on a Linux industrial PC. The Control Seat Virtual PLC supports IEC 61131-3 programming, including Ladder Diagram (LD), Structured Text (ST), Function Block Diagram (FBD), and Sequential Function Chart...
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One of the coolest moments we’ve had building Control Seat happened last week. A customer operated a battery in Chile from their laptop while on vacation in Hawaii. 🌎⚡ The command traveled from Hawaii to our MQTT broker in Virginia, out to the battery in Chile, and back as live telemetry. The coolest part wasn’t the demo. Before Control Seat, they were maintaining MQTT brokers, cloud VMs, databases, dashboards, and custom APIs just to monitor and control their batteries. Now they do it all from one platform. That’s exactly why we built Control Seat. We’d much rather see engineers spending their time building great products than maintaining infrastructure. Huge thanks to Alejandro and everyone at Battex for trusting us, pushing the platform hard, and helping us make the platform better. Read the full case study at the link in our bio. #IndustrialAutomation #SCADA #BESS #EnergyStorage #mqtt
One of the coolest moments we’ve had building Control Seat happened last week. A customer operated a battery in Chile from their laptop while on vacation in Hawaii. 🌎⚡ The command traveled from Hawaii to our MQTT broker in Virginia, out to the battery in Chile, and back as...
- YouTube
Introducing Control Seat
Introducing Control Seat The company channel and native description introduce Control Seat and its AI-native industrial control platform. The official Control Seat website links this exact YouTube channel. The native channel name, title, and description all identify Control Seat.
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Control Seat Predictive Maintenance Demo | Vibration, Temperature & Ultrasound Monitoring
See how Control Seat brings predictive maintenance into the same platform as your industrial controls, SCADA, historian, alarms, and process data. In this demo, we show how Control Seat uses wireless machine health sensors to monitor 3-axis vibration, FFT spectrum data,...