The story of Loophole starts more than 16 years ago, when Noah Latsch and Archer Lawrence first met in middle school. Across the next decade and a half, they would be peers in both high school and college, starting two businesses together during that time.
After their paths diverged for a brief period, by late 2024 Noah had found his place as an Instructional Designer at LinkedIn, and Archer as an AI Automation Specialist at Foodz Catering.
Coincidentally, as friends comparing notes on how they used AI and automation in their work, they kept discovering that the operational challenges each company faced were strikingly similar. Businesses big and small were grappling with the same inefficiencies and repetitive tasks, and they saw an opportunity to bring enterprise-level automation to small businesses affordably by using emerging AI tools.
Drawing on Archer’s operational insights at a small business and Noah’s technical expertise through internal development at LinkedIn, the two began brainstorming ways to build tools that solved these challenges while focusing heavily on the people experiencing them.
Archer’s cousin, Sean Sakaguchi, joined the conversation early in the founding of the business, bringing his background in business optimization and organizational restructuring from Guggenheim to help shape a company foundation that would be both efficient and scalable for the kinds of small businesses Loophole wanted to serve.
In January 2025, that conversation became Loophole Automation, where a lifelong friendship met a family-run business.