Two line items. One. Your company already funds two budgets that overlap: AI seats (ChatGPT Team / Claude Team at $25-30/user/mo) and corporate giving. LADLE is one line item that does both jobs. Priced at $20 per seat per month — the consumer price, no team-tier markup — LADLE is a general-purpose AI assistant on Claude Sonnet, the same class of frontier model your team is already evaluating. Every seat funds ten meals per month via the UN World Food Programme at $0.80/meal, aggregated onto a monthly impact statement with a public reference number that attaches to your CSR report. Deliverables: seats + meals + monthly impact statement + public receipts. For a 50-seat organization, that is $12,000/year on AI tooling with 6,000 meals ($4,800 of the total) documented as a social-impact contribution — versus $15,000/year for Claude Team with no impact line. Onboarding is manual — 45-minute call, no sales quota. Honest caveats: LADLE does not claim to replace all corporate giving; it consolidates two overlapping budgets, one seat at a time. Numbers are illustrative until we know yours.
The unit economics your CFO will check.
SOURCES · OPENAI.COM/CHATGPT/PRICING · ANTHROPIC.COM/PRICING · VERIFIED 2026-08-05. EFFECTIVE ANNUAL PRICES SHOWN WHERE ANNUAL COMMIT REDUCES THE MONTHLY RATE.
What the meals actually mean, and what they don’t.
A 50-seat organization funds 6,000 meals per year through this subscription. That’s a real contribution to the World Food Programme, verifiable at ShareTheMeal, itemized on a monthly statement your CSR team can attach to disclosure. The value in brand/recruiting terms: a specific, quantitative line on your careers page and CSR report — not a “we care about hunger” sentence.
Honest caveats. We do not claim a specific ROI on the impact contribution — no “this drives X% recruiting lift” number, because we don’t have the data to substantiate one, and inventing one would be dishonest. We do not frame this as a tax deduction (see /impact/tax — it’s not one). We do not claim environmental impact of any kind — the mechanism funds food, not carbon offsets. The value is in the specificity of a verifiable social-impact line, not in a manufactured business metric.
The things your risk team will find. We surface them ourselves.
Every vendor has real risks. We’d rather you find ours on our page than in a third-party review. Each risk below includes what we do to mitigate it — the mitigation is real, not theoretical.
- R01
Platform dependency (single upstream model provider)
LADLE runs on Anthropic’s API. If Anthropic’s pricing changed significantly or the API became unavailable, LADLE would need to migrate models. Our contingency: Anthropic’s API has been broadly reliable, but our data-export tooling is already customer-facing — your team’s chats and Projects can be exported at any time. If we ever needed to migrate providers, chat continuity would be preserved via re-import; model behavior might shift.
- R02
Company size (small, no enterprise sales team)
We’re a small operation, not an enterprise-grade vendor. This means faster response times and no sales theater, but it also means no dedicated CSM, no 24/7 phone support, and a small footprint against your procurement team’s standard vendor-scale expectations. Compensating: our procurement page (see /business/procurement) covers what larger vendors’ sales teams would.
- R03
SOC 2 not certified (as of this document)
We do not carry SOC 2 Type II certification today. If your procurement policy requires it, LADLE is not the right vendor at this moment. Our security posture (encryption in transit + at rest, MFA, subprocessor discipline, incident response SLA) matches SOC 2 controls in practice, and the certification is planned for 2027-Q1 pending independent review. Interim mitigation: signed DPA + procurement documentation + security page.
- R04
Meal donation dependency on subscription revenue
The $8-per-seat-to-WFP is funded by your subscription; it is not a separate charity flow. If you cancel, the meals stop being funded by your subscription (past meals already funded remain funded — donations are made, not held). We recommend evaluating LADLE on the AI-assistant merits first; the meal contribution is a corollary benefit, not the primary purchase justification.
- R05
Company shutdown risk
In the unlikely event LADLE PBC shut down, our commitments: 90 days advance notice, full data export tooling (already customer-accessible), and open-source publication of critical technical documentation so migration to another provider can proceed on documented schema. Legal terms in /legal/terms. This is the actual mitigation, not a theoretical one — we’ve built the export tooling first, sales second.
Print this page. It’s designed to fit on one sheet.
The exec summary, cost comparison, social-impact framing, and risk table above are print-styled to fit on a single portrait sheet (A4 or US Letter). Attach it to an internal memo or a procurement package as-is. The URL prints in the header so anyone scanning it can pull up the live version for the latest pricing.
Forward this to your CFO, your CSR lead, and your security team. All three questions are answered.
1,284,336 meals funded across LADLE subscribers since launch. Your team's contribution appears on next month's public receipt.