ABOUT

Latens builds the infrastructure of an AI society. We pave roads between scattered data and AI, so that work keeps finishing itself.

MISSION / VISION / VALUE

Stop spending lives on keeping society running.

MISSION

Stop spending lives on keeping society running.

VISION

A phase transition — from maintenance to autonomy.

VALUE

Human approval

Automatic blocking

Audit log

PHILOSOPHY

A small singularity.

Lives are being spent on maintenance.

Much of Japan's knowledge work is spent maintaining what already exists: transcribing, reconciling, routing approvals, and repeating the same work without mistakes.

This is not laziness. As society became more complex, maintenance itself became a massive job. The problem is that lives keep being invested in it.

AI already has the capability.

What is missing is not intelligence. It is the connection to scattered, closed data.

An AI without context is a talented new hire: excellent, but knowing nothing about this company. Connection turns it into a veteran.

A small singularity.

Society will not change all at once. It changes one company at a time, one piece of work at a time.

One task leaves human hands and starts running on its own. The task beside it joins. As more tasks join, more moves through the company. Once a certain density is crossed, the company becomes something else.

THE NAME

A top at rest falls unless it is held.

Latens means hidden in Latin. Latent heat — when ice becomes water, the temperature does not move. What moves is invisible heat. At the moment the state changes, the force is still out of sight.

Our logo is a spinning top.

A top at rest is just a lump. Without support, it falls. The instant it starts spinning, the same object stands on one point and stays up without a hand. Its form has not changed. Only its state has.

This is what we want for companies: not to add something new, but to let the force already there keep turning after the hand lets go.

AT REST — LATENT

SPINNING — MANIFEST

VOCABULARY

The words we use.

Latent
Force that has not yet surfaced. A top at rest.
Manifest
The same force, now turning after the hand lets go.
Phase transition
A change that becomes something else at a threshold, not little by little.
Inquiry
Look up, search, read. AI only views internal data. Unlimited, at no charge.
Execution
One successful operation in which AI changes data in an internal system. This is all we count.
Connector
A destination AI can reach. One per internal system. No additional fee, no matter how many you connect.

COMPANY

Company profile

Company
Latens Inc. (株式会社Latens)
Address
1-6-5 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0041, Japan
Founded
July 16, 2024
Representative Director
Takuma Hosokai
Business
Development and provision of Latens OS, a platform connecting AI to internal systems / AI adoption support and business design consulting / commissioned development of custom MCP servers