One page. Plain English.

For $20 per month, you get access to LADLE, a general-purpose AI assistant powered by Anthropic’s Claude API. Requests are routed between Claude Haiku and Claude Sonnet according to the rule published at /models, and you can force the Sonnet tier on any message from the composer. Access is subject to fair-use as defined in section 03. Of every $20, $8 is earmarked into the LADLE meal fund and pooled toward a $50,000/year commitment — the threshold we have set for ourselves before signing a formal partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select. That earmark commitment is contractual on our part — not aspirational. The partner is still being selected; a formal partnership activates once the threshold clears.

Cancel any time from the Settings screen. Your subscription remains active until the end of the current billing cycle, then stops. You are not charged again.

Your final month’s $8 still lands in the meal fund with the next month’s earmark batch. That’s not a refund the other way — you paid for the month, you get the month.

LADLE is priced for interactive human use — writing, research, coding, conversation. Automated scripts, resale of the endpoint, and bulk pipelines are not covered by the subscription price.

If a subscriber sustains usage that materially breaks our unit economics for a full cycle, we email first and offer to work out an arrangement or refund. We do not silently throttle.

You own it. You license LADLE and Anthropic the right to process it long enough to answer your prompt and satisfy security and abuse-prevention obligations. See the Privacy page for the details of what is retained.

You may use it for anything lawful. Language models hallucinate. Verify anything load-bearing (medical, legal, financial). Web-search citations link to the sources — check the sources, don’t trust the summary.

Anthropic’s usage policies apply, and we don’t override them. Broadly: no CSAM, no facilitation of violence against real people, no impersonation for fraud, no bulk influence operations. If your use case is unclear, ask us and we’ll answer honestly.

We announce a full billing cycle in advance. Unused portions of the current month are refunded pro-rata. The final month’s meal-fund report is published on the normal date. Chats export to plain text on request.

To the extent legally allowed, LADLE’s liability is capped at the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We do not warrant the service will be uninterrupted or defect-free. We commit to fix things promptly and transparently.

British Columbia, Canada. Disputes we can’t settle by email go to arbitration in a mutually convenient venue.

legal@ladle.chat — a real person reads this address.