A one-line company.
LADLE resells frontier AI at market price and earmarks a fixed portion of every subscription into a meal fund building toward a formal partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select at $50,000/year. That is the entire business — one line, one company, one commitment.
We started LADLE because a lot of people were already paying $20 a month for a general assistant. The bet was that some of those people would rather that $20 do a second job on the way out.
So we resell Anthropic's Claude at the same price the incumbents charge, and we earmark $8 of every subscription into a dedicated meal fund at a working $0.80/meal estimate. That's ten meals a month, minimum, reserved per active subscription. We publish a monthly fund report with the reserved-meal count. Our future hunger-relief partner is the partner we select; the pooled fund ships as real partner donations — with partner reference numbers alongside — once we clear their $50,000/year corporate-partnership threshold.
The remaining $12 covers Anthropic's inference cost and our small ops overhead. We don't make a profit at $20/mo yet at this scale, and we're OK with that — the compounding math on model prices means we will.
We're small. This site, this product, and the fund reports are shipped by a team that fits in a video call. We move slower than a VC-funded competitor and that's a feature.
Founded 2026. Fewer than 12 months of history.
- 2026-01Started
LADLE registered as a sole proprietorship in British Columbia. Team of one.
- 2026-04Chat, files, projects
Core product shipped in mock mode. Web search + 200K context wired.
- 2026-06Manifesto + open metrics
Manifesto published. /open dashboard shipped (populates once real numbers land).
- 2026-08Security hardening
32 findings closed in a full hardening pass — headers, RLS safety net, SSRF/IDOR helpers, CI wiring.
- 2026-09-04Marketing site live
Site went live at ladle.chat. Site expansion + Stripe wired.
- TBDFirst monthly fund report
First monthly meal-fund report publishes to /impact. partner reference numbers populate once the $50k/year partnership threshold clears.
Receipts, not testimonials.
Every claim on this site is either a live number or a document you can verify. If we can't cite it, we don't say it.
One product, one price.
We won't invent a Pro tier to make the base price look better. There is no back-end enterprise SKU. The thing you see is the thing.
No dark patterns on cancel.
One button. No retention offer, no discount pop-up, no 'are you sure' loop. If the reports stopped being real, canceling is the right call.
The $8 line is fixed.
Not 'up to'. Not profit-contingent. Whether we made money this month or lost it, the $8 earmark into the meal fund clears.
The specific trade-offs.
- We shipped one product at one priceinstead of a Pro / Team / Enterprise upsell ladder
- We kept the meal donation fixed at $8instead of variable, higher-margin-months-donate-more
- We wrote our own competitor comparisonsinstead of a testimonials page with logos
- We run on one model provider (Anthropic)instead of routing across four for aggressive cost cuts
- We have no free tierinstead of the standard SaaS funnel that dilutes the meal pitch
- We are still a team of oneinstead of raising to hire ahead of the math
AT ANY SUBSCRIBER COUNT THIS MATH WORKS · $8 / $0.80 = 10 MEALS · IF IT EVER STOPS WORKING WE’LL SAY SO PUBLICLY, NOT SILENTLY CHANGE THE PLAN
One-line company. One million meal mission.
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