Will it write my grant?

It'll draft the scaffold and polish sections you draft. The actual research vision, methods, and analysis have to come from you.

Does it help with pedagogy design?

For structure and standard patterns, yes. For discipline-specific pedagogical debates, verify against literature or colleagues — LADLE will confidently generalize across fields where the norms differ.

Is student work safe to paste?

Anonymize. Redact names. Some institutions have specific rules about AI use with student work — check yours before adopting this workflow at scale.

USE CASE · PROFESSORS

The academic writing that piles up.

LADLE drafts the syllabus you're revising, writes the student feedback in bulk, and handles the grant application scaffold. Your research time stays for research.

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MODELClaude Sonnet

USE FORSyllabi, feedback, grants, letters

DON'T USE FOROriginal research, peer review of student work

CONTEXT200K tokens — whole textbooks fit

FILESPDFs, docs, spreadsheets

SPEED5-10s per draft

SYLLABI

The syllabus you're revising for the fifth year in a row.

Paste last year's syllabus + what you want to change. Get an updated version that keeps what worked and fixes what didn't.

Update my intro-to-poli-sci syllabus. Add a unit on AI governance (2 weeks). Cut the parliamentary systems week — it wasn't landing.

STUDENT FEEDBACK

Feedback in bulk without becoming rubber-stamp.

Paste the assignment prompt + a student paper. Get specific, actionable feedback in your voice. Do this 30x in an evening instead of a week.

Feedback on a mediocre 5-page essay arguing that the New Deal was a net positive. Not enough engagement with counter-evidence.

GRANTS

The grant scaffold you don't have time to build.

Paste the funding call + your research context. Get a scaffold — sections, headings, key claims — that you then flesh out with actual research content.

NSF standard grant scaffold. Field: computational political science. Focus: analyzing legislative voting patterns using LLM embeddings.

WHY THIS EXISTS

Academic writing eats the parts of your job that aren't research. LADLE takes it back. $8/mo of your subscription is earmarked into a meal fund on the road to a real partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select.

Questions.

For drafting feedback based on YOUR judgment of the work, yes. For actually evaluating the work itself, no — grades belong to you. Model output can't reliably assess argument quality at the level required for evaluation.

Try it before you commit.

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