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Humans vs. Machines

Humans vs. Machines

What is the right level of automation for Customer Support? I recently had a lot of time (while waiting on “hold”) to reflect on this question.  About a month ago, I bought an annual license for an accounting product. When I tried to use the software, the key provided...

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Customer Success Retreat

Customer Success Retreat

This past week, Gain held its annual Customer Success onsite retreat. (Here's the post from last year's.) While the majority of our teams hail from the Des Moines area, we have a few folks who came in from nearby towns as well as Texas and Nebraska.  The purpose -...

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Year 9

Year 9

In what has become an annual rite, I add a post in the blog each June (or thereabouts) that commemorates the anniversary of Gain’s founding.  (By way of reference, here are the retrospectives from last year, two years ago,  our 6th anniversary, 5th...

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Product Focused

Product Focused

My name is Matt Keller, and I’m the Head of Product here at Gain Compliance. I recently joined the team, and it’s been exciting as I’ve immersed myself in a culture that is singularly focused on a better experience for statutory accounting teams (as you well know from...

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Tournament Time

Tournament Time

With the arrival of spring, and with March Madness in the air, I began to think about how a bracket might play out if stat. reporting solutions were pitted against one another, head-to-head.  Embracing this analogy, let’s set the field: Gain Compliance is the...

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Customer-led Discovery Revisited (Again)

Customer-led Discovery Revisited (Again)

This is an old theme for this post, but it’s a good one.  As you should well know by now, Gain’s product development is customer-led (as illustrated by former posts here, here, here, here, here, and here.) So, why do I keep coming back to this?  Two reasons:...

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AI – Truth and Hallucinations

AI – Truth and Hallucinations

I recently queried Google’s AI service, Gemini, with the prompt: “What is the best software for NAIC insurance statutory reporting?” Gemini's response: Gemini then, at least in my (not-unbiased) opinion, provided a very nice summary of the rationale underlying its...

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