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July marked Gain’s sixth anniversary.  It’s always a fun, introspective exercise to chart our progress over the years. By way of how-we-got-to-now, here are the themes from prior anniversary posts.  From the top: Year 1 seems like an eternity ago, but the theme was...

Gain’s team recently returned from our first in-person conference in quite some time. The first week in June marked the first non-remote IASA Annual Conference in three years.  The high-level recap was that it was, as always, phenomenal. Not only does the organization...

The Insurance Journal's year-end list of top cyber attacks of 2021. Gain’s founding six years ago coincided with an increased focus on cybersecurity by our clientele. While many carriers operate in New York and are subject to 23 NYCRR Part 500, some are motivated by...

I am not a big reader of conventional business books with a how-to/advice approach. Instead, I prefer warts-and-all narratives which let the reader draw conclusions and apply them to their particular situation. (Recent reads for me were Disrupted and Super Pumped. Two...

Like sands through the hourglass... or at least that what it feels like when waiting for your legacy Annual Statement software to force calculations across schedules. Modern software solutions offer a user experience so different from legacy applications that it...

Fake it until you make it - not such a good idea in some markets. In the startup world, MVP is shorthand for “Minimal Viable Product.” This concept drives business strategy as the preferred way to get a software product to market. MVP is defined as the absolute lowest...

Last month, Gain Compliance marked its fifth anniversary. Historically, this blog has memorialized this type of event with a short introspection of what each birthday signified: here’s last year, as well as our third and our first years. (Somehow, I skipped a blog...

Gain has been hard at work on product development since our inception in 2016.  With a product-focused culture, we have prioritized customer experience first and foremost with a very deliberate approach with regards to market evaluation and feature design. By way of...

Gain Compliance builds solutions for the highly-regulated market of Insurance Statutory Financial Reporting.  Notably, even to offer software for this use case, a vendor must undergo twice-annual certification by the NAIC (National Association of Insurance...