Control Seat
Control and Monitoring of Industrial Operations
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.
Founders
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.
Warren Shepard
Founder
Building a modern SCADA builder to control and monitor factory hardware and replace legacy systems. Current student at Dartmouth (graduating in '26 June) and previously at SpaceX and Microsoft.