Mission and Values - Actuarial Notes

Notes / Mission and Values

Our mission is to empower Actuaries to collaborate and build with AI.

Who we are

My name is Jordan, and in the summer of 2023 I started Actuarial Notes from a small apartment in downtown Toronto. At the time I was looking for answers to the rising systemic risk in our economy, which became hard to ignore following the shock of the pandemic.

Two years later, this website has become a news outlet for the Canadian P&C insurance industry, intending to bring new perspectives and discussion to urgent issues of emerging risks including Climate, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Responsibility.

Thank you for taking the time to learn about our work. If you’re aligned with our mission, we are always open to partnerships and collaborations.

Our values

Integrity starts with you

Integrity means honest decisions and acting in line with one’s values.

For Actuarial Notes as a publisher, integrity means that we’re transparent about our incentives and commitments, so that you can understand our biases.

Be helpful

To fulfill our mission, our work should be helpful to people who work in the Canadian insurance industry.

To do this, we listen to your feedback so that we can learn what’s working for you, and what’s not. You can leave us feedback at anytime.

Accessibility is good for all

Accessibility is at the center of our mission. It means communicating in a way that is personalized to the needs of an individual person.

Our goal is to build products and services that are accessible by design.

Collaborate Freely

Diversity in thought, experiences, and knowledge is foundational to good decisions. Diversity challenges blindspots and sees beyond an individual’s horizon.

Collaboration is about listening, improvising, disagreeing, and building together

Our goals

Create a marketplace for risk management.

Share risk management software and services in a way that improves the transparency, trust, and competitiveness of providers.

Create spaces for community.

Create physical and digital spaces for students and professionals of risk management to talk and learn from each other.

Build a risk management tool.

Build a tool that implements a risk management workflow in a way that’s easy, fun, and collaborative.

Design a collaborative decision-making tool.

Develop the requirements for a system where people can collaborate and make risk-informed decisions together.