Are there caps or fairness rules?

Yes. Each account can send up to 10 successful referrals per year (accounts where the friend continues past month 1). Beyond that, further referrals still fund meals for both parties but no bonus month credits. This is to prevent the referral program from becoming an income stream for a small number of large accounts — it's designed to reward personal recommendation, not affiliate marketing at scale.

What if my friend cancels within the free first month?

No bonus for you and no extra meals from either side — the referral only counts when the friend continues into a paid month. This is important: we don't want the referral program to incentivize signup churn. If your friend genuinely doesn't like LADLE, that's fine — we'd rather they cancel than be pressured. See /legal/refunds — 7-day full refund still applies to them.

What about anti-abuse — can I sign up a bunch of fake accounts?

Referrals are validated against the actual subscription becoming a paid one, and we run standard duplicate-account detection (same card, same IP, similar email patterns, etc.). Confirmed abuse results in reversal of the bonus month + a warning; repeated abuse results in account termination per /legal/acceptable-use. This isn't the game to try to game; the reward is small enough that gaming it isn't economical.

REFERRALS · GIVE A MONTH, GET A MONTH

Give a friend one month free.

If they continue past month one, you both get a bonus month and 10 extra meals each fund through the partner we select. Simple, capped at 10 per year, no cash payout. Reward for recommending something real; not affiliate marketing.

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HOW IT WORKS

THE SHARE CARD

The card that goes out with your link.

PREVIEW · OG-STYLE

“[Your name] thought you should try LADLE.”

First month free. Frontier AI assistant, $8 of every subscription funds ten meals a month through the partner we select.

LADLE.PBC/JOIN/[YOUR-CODE]

The card generates automatically when you request a referral link — you can share it as an image on social, or drop the URL directly.

REFERRAL FAQ

Fairness questions.

You send a link. Your friend signs up via that link and gets their first month free. If they continue past the first month, you get one bonus month credit on your account, and both you and your friend fund an extra 10 meals through the partner we select each — so 20 extra meals total funded via the referral. No cash payout to either side; the reward is the bonus month + the extra meals in both your names.

Referral links aren't switched on yet.

The terms above are the programme we intend to run; the billing credit behind it isn't built, so there's no link to hand you today. We'll announce it on the newsletter and in /changelog.

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$20/MO · CANCEL ANYTIME · $0.80/MEAL · RECEIPTS MONTHLY

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