Control Seat YC Application

Summer 2026Active

Control Seat went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch as a Industrials company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2026
Industry: Industrials
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Jack GrodnickFounder
Warren ShepardFounder

What Control Seat does

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.

Control Seat's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Control Seat, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Control Seat

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Control and Monitoring of Industrial Operations

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build software that helps industrial operations monitor and control their workflows in real time. Our product aggregates data from complex industrial processes, surfaces critical issues, and automates operational responses to reduce downtime and improve efficiency.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We are currently remote and the company will remain distributed after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We have chosen to stay remote to access talent flexibly and to better serve industrial clients spread across different locations.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Control Seat YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Control Seat's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Control Seat would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.