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Control and Monitoring of Industrial Operations
Control Seat provides an AI-native intelligence layer that sits on top of existing SCADA systems to enable faster root cause analysis, predictive maintenance, AI-built dashboards, and data-driven automation. It connects live data from SCADA, databases, and APIs to surface insights and drive actions through a visual editor and flows.
The product sits as an abstraction layer over SCADA data, connecting Ignition and other systems via OPC UA, MQTT, and direct integrations. It offers a visual editor with drag-and-drop blocks, real-time preview, and styling controls to build dashboards quickly. It consolidates data from SCADA tags, databases, and APIs into a single data layer with sub-second latency. Features include AI-powered analytics and natural language interfaces to generate dashboards and root-cause analysis, real-time charts and alarm tables, historical replay, and the ability to upload custom HTML/CSS/JavaScript for bespoke components. Flows run 24/7 on the gateway to enable predictive maintenance, misconfiguration detection, and automated actions, with options for on-prem or cloud deployments and enterprise features such as dedicated support, SSO, audit logs, and white labeling.
Who it’s for: Operations engineers, plant managers, integrators, and industrial automation teams looking to add an AI-driven intelligence layer atop existing SCADA deployments.
Mentions of cloud/on-prem deployments, 14-day free trial, pricing plans, and enterprise features; indicates product-maturity and market traction through pricing pages and deployment options.
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.
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.
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The Intelligence Layer for Manufacturing.

AI-native industrial maintenance software