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 Anthropic's Claude — the same class of frontier model your team is already evaluating — routing between Haiku and Sonnet under a published rule with a manual override (see /models). Every seat reserves ten meals per month in a meal fund at a $0.80/meal peg via the partner we select, aggregated onto a monthly impact statement with a public fund report reference that attaches to your CSR report. Our future hunger-relief partner is the partner we select; the pooled fund ships as a real partner donation once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears, at which point partner reference numbers populate on the reports. Deliverables: seats + meals reserved + monthly impact statement + published fund reports. For a 50-seat organization, that is $12,000/year on AI tooling with 6,000 meals reserved per year ($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 reserves 6,000 meals per year through this subscription in a meal fund pooling toward the partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select threshold. That’s a real earmark, itemized on a monthly fund report your CSR team can attach to disclosure, and the reserved pool ships as a real partner donation — with a partner-side reference — once the $50,000/year threshold clears. 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, we have not engaged an auditor, and no fieldwork has begun. If your procurement policy requires it, LADLE is not the right vendor at this moment. We implement controls that overlap substantially with the SOC 2 criteria — encryption in transit and at rest, MFA on every production system, a published subprocessor list, a documented incident-response process — but overlapping with the criteria is not the same as being audited against them, and we are not going to blur that line in a procurement document. Certification is a 2027-Q1 goal. Interim mitigation: signed DPA, this document, and /security.
- R04
Meal-fund earmark dependency on subscription revenue
The $8-per-seat earmark into the meal fund is funded by your subscription; it is not a separate charity flow. If you cancel, meals stop being reserved from your subscription (past meals already reserved and reported remain in the fund, which ships as a partner donation once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears). We recommend evaluating LADLE on the AI-assistant merits first; the meal-fund contribution is a corollary benefit, not the primary purchase justification.
- R05
Company shutdown risk
In the unlikely event LADLE 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.
Every $20 seat reserves 10 meals in the meal fund (pooling toward the partnership threshold). Your team's contribution appears on next month's public fund report.