# Control Seat

[Control Seat on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/control-seat)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://www.controlseat.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/control-seat)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/control-seat)

## About

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## YC company profile

AI that runs factories.

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.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2025
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** Industrials
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Workflow Automation, Monitoring, Industrial
- **YC partner:** Jared Friedman

## Founders

### 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).

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-shepard-493a37201/) · [X](https://x.com/warrren_shepard)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-grodnick/)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/control-seat) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Jack Grodnick](https://hacklab.so/jack-grodnick) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Warren Shepard](https://hacklab.so/warren-shepard) — Founder/CEO (Present)