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Inductive Automation and the Price of One More Idea
A controls engineer grew tired of software that charged factories for growing. Ignition made room for more users, more data, and the occasional very expensive whiteboard.
The Factory Already Had the Answers. Seeq Made Them Take Minutes, Not Months.
Industrial plants were collecting oceans of sensor data and still waiting weeks for answers. Seeq built the missing analysis layer - and its best lesson is less about AI than about putting the people who know the process back in control.
Cameron McCord
Cameron McCord is the co-founder and CEO of Nominal, a defense-tech software company modernizing how the world tests and validates mission-critical hardware. A former US Navy nuclear submarine officer who logged 484 days underwater, he studied physics and nuclear engineering at MIT and earned an MBA at Harvard before building product at Anduril and investing at Lux Capital. Founded in 2022, Nominal reached a $1 billion valuation after raising $155 million in ten months, counting four of the five largest US defense contractors among its customers.