I'm a software engineer with a compliance background, and I've spent the last few weeks reading this board and talking to a handful of TPA owners and administrators about the tools they run on. Nothing built yet, and I'm not selling anything.
The pattern I keep hearing: Relius is winding down, ftwilliam is solid but the compliance module is thin, and a lot of the real work - cross-tested allocations, combo plan testing, controlled group questions - still ends up in Excel.
Two questions for people who do this every day:
If one piece of your annual cycle could be automated properly, which one?
What's in your personal spreadsheets that the software should do?
Happy to share a summary of what I hear back with anyone who's interested. And if you'd rather talk than type, I'm at arnav@arnavt.com.
