
Who’s behind it.
My name is Mike Sember. For over a decade I worked in business software alongside construction and physical-world companies: hands-on, operationally heavy businesses that keep the built world running and are undergoing complex digital transformations.
I was hired onto the sales side of it, but the part that stuck was never the selling. It was the systems underneath. The way a business actually runs day to day. More than once, my process and systems-minded approach made me a valued member of an organization. Somewhere along the way I stopped just using those systems and started building them, and that turned out to be the work I actually wanted to do.
Latent Method is that same instinct, pointed at small businesses. I build or implement the technology a business runs on: the website, the automation, the quiet systems behind the scenes. And with modern AI tooling, one experienced operator can now deliver what used to take a whole team. That’s the whole idea. A technology partner, without hiring one.
The name
In photography, the latent image is the picture already captured on the film, waiting to be developed. Most businesses are the same. The potential is already there.
My job is the method that brings it to the surface.
Technology should quietly run your business, not turn into another job you manage. It’s me start to finish, and I answer my own email.