Control Seat

Control Seat is an AI-native industrial systems integrator building a modern replacement for legacy SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) platforms such as Ignition, WinCC, and FactoryTalk. It designs, builds, deploys, and runs the full industrial control stack, from PLC programming (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Beckhoff) and HMI/SCADA operator screens to OT/IT networking, historians, and analytics, on a single unified platform. The product connects to field devices over OPC UA and MQTT (Sparkplug B), integrates with AVEVA PI, Ignition, and standard SQL/time-series databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, InfluxDB, Prometheus) plus REST APIs, and streams 10k+ tags per second at sub-100ms latency. AI-native features let operators generate control screens in seconds, run anomaly detection and forecasting, and query the historian in plain English. Enterprise capabilities include SSO, SCIM, role-based access control, and audit logs, with deployment on managed cloud or self-hosted on-premises. Founded in 2025 by Jack Grodnick and Warren Shepard, Control Seat is based in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator (Summer 2026).

Control Seat is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, SCADA, Industrial, Monitoring, and Workflow Automation.

Control Seat’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, changelog, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 9 more developer resources.

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21.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-23 · rubric v0.5
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CompanySCADAIndustrialMonitoringWorkflow AutomationManufacturingAnalyticsReal-TimeIoTHistorian

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scored 2026-07-23 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 21.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Control Seat Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

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Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 Support
Support
 Contact
Contact

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 About
About

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: control-seat
name: Control Seat
description: Control Seat is an AI-native industrial systems integrator building a modern replacement for legacy SCADA (Supervisory
  Control and Data Acquisition) platforms such as Ignition, WinCC, and FactoryTalk. It designs, builds, deploys, and runs
  the full industrial control stack, from PLC programming (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Beckhoff) and HMI/SCADA operator screens
  to OT/IT networking, historians, and analytics, on a single unified platform. The product connects to field devices over
  OPC UA and MQTT (Sparkplug B), integrates with AVEVA PI, Ignition, and standard SQL/time-series databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL,
  InfluxDB, Prometheus) plus REST APIs, and streams 10k+ tags per second at sub-100ms latency. AI-native features let operators
  generate control screens in seconds, run anomaly detection and forecasting, and query the historian in plain English. Enterprise
  capabilities include SSO, SCIM, role-based access control, and audit logs, with deployment on managed cloud or self-hosted
  on-premises. Founded in 2025 by Jack Grodnick and Warren Shepard, Control Seat is based in San Francisco and backed by Y
  Combinator (Summer 2026).
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image: https://www.controlseat.com/ControlSeatFavicon.PNG
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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tags:
- Company
- SCADA
- Industrial
- Monitoring
- Workflow Automation
- Manufacturing
- Analytics
- Real-Time
- IoT
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apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
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- type: Blog
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- type: Support
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- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.controlseat.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.controlseat.com/privacy
- type: About
  url: https://www.controlseat.com/about
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.controlseat.com/contact
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
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