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ABOUT · TIMELINE

LADLE, from founding to now.

Chronological record of what shipped and what happened around it. Updated on the first of each month with the previous month's material events.

UPDATED 2026-08-06

Company timelines are usually retconned after the fact. Ours is written contemporaneously — each entry landed the month it happened. If you're doing a due-diligence read on the company, this is the honest chronology.

2026

JanuaryLADLE registered as a British Columbia sole proprietorship. Team of one.
FebruaryFirst working chat interface + Anthropic API wired. Design system locked (see /brand).
MarchMeal-ledger schema locked. $0.80/meal math finalized. Our future hunger-relief partner selected as target donation partner; meal fund pegged to their per-meal cost, aggregating toward the $50k/year corporate-partnership threshold.
AprilChat, files, web search, projects all shipped in mock mode. 200K context wired.
MayPersonal meal ledger (My Table) shipped. Extended thinking + design mode shipped.
JuneManifesto published. /open metrics dashboard shipped (populates once real numbers land).
JulyMarketing site expansion (~150 routes). Business tier scaffolded. Business case + impact reporting pages shipped.
AugustSecurity hardening pass — 32 findings closed. Stripe wired (test mode). Self-tests hitting real APIs with real sessions. SSO scaffolded.
2026-09-04Marketing site went live at ladle.chat. Pre-first-report — first monthly meal-fund report pending; real partner transfers begin once the $50k/year partnership threshold clears.

What's not on this timeline

  • Individual customer names or company names — those appear only with explicit consent on /community and (eventually) /business.
  • Fundraising specifics — we've taken no institutional investment; the company is founder-funded plus revenue.
  • Personnel changes — we're two people (founder + one senior contractor); nothing to report until that grows.
  • Marketing milestones without substance — nothing was “launched with a partner” unless the partner is named.

How this page stays current

The founder writes each month's entry on the 1st of the following month, alongside the newsletter and open-metrics update. If a material event happens mid-month (an outage, an acquisition offer, a hiring event, a legal action received), it's added within one business day rather than waiting for month-end.

Related

/open — the metrics · /newsletter — monthly notes · /about — how the company is structured.

Written monthly. Never retconned.

If you spot a factual error, tell us.

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