The editor that keeps your voice.
Claude Sonnet is disproportionately good at prose. LADLE keeps that quality and adds the discipline to cut, translate, and re-scope without smoothing out the voice that makes writing yours.
Turn a paragraph you hate into three you'd send.
Bring the ugly first draft. Tell LADLE what you were trying to say, who you're saying it to, and what shouldn't be in the final. Get three variants that make different tradeoffs — pick, hybridize, keep going.
The reader you can't afford to hire.
Paste the whole piece. Tell LADLE what kind of edit you need — copy edit, developmental read, cut-for-length, or a hard 'find the three sentences that are lying'. It edits at the level you asked for, and stops there.
Not just words — register.
Translate into 40+ languages, or translate between registers of the same language. 'Make this contract clause readable to a non-lawyer.' 'Localize this landing page for a Brazilian audience without losing the deadpan tone.' Ask for what you actually want.
Every editor charges by the hour. LADLE charges $20/mo, always available. $8 of it is earmarked toward ten meals a month on the road to a real partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select.
Questions.
Only if you don't tell it not to. Ask for 'edit for grammar and clarity only, do not touch the voice, keep the em-dashes and the fragments' and it will. Ask for a rewrite and it will do that too. The 'AI voice' complaint is almost always operator error — the model matches the instruction it was given.