Tradewright vs Conduit: what each one does, and where they stop

Conduit and Tradewright are both answers to the same problem: residential contractors still size replacements by hand, and the design step is a bottleneck between the visit and the sale. They answer it differently. Conduit is a design tool that lives on an iPad and is becoming part of ServiceTitan. Tradewright is a design-to-contract tool that runs the whole chain in the home and works with whatever CRM you already have.

This post is written by the Tradewright team, so read it as one competitor describing another. Every statement about Conduit comes from Conduit's own site, its App Store listing, ServiceTitan's press release or ACCA's list, checked on the dates in the sources below. If something here is out of date, email us and we will fix it.

The short version

"Not stated" means we could not find it on the public site. It does not mean the feature does not exist.

What Conduit does well

Conduit built one of the first fast, in-home Manual J workflows on consumer hardware. Its site describes a 3D model of the home from an iPad Pro LiDAR scan in about ten minutes, room-by-room loads, augmented-reality visuals for the homeowner, and more recent additions in the App Store release notes: Manual S sizing targets, equipment selection from a price book, and blueprint import. It is listed in the Manual J section of ACCA's approved software page, which matters for contractors whose rebate program or inspector asks for an approved tool by name. And it has a ServiceTitan integration, which for a ServiceTitan shop is the shortest path from a load calc to a job record.

If you run ServiceTitan, sell mostly ducted systems, and already have a proposal process you like, Conduit is a credible choice and the acquisition makes that fit tighter over time.

Where the two part ways

1. Where the workflow ends

Conduit's public materials describe the workflow through equipment selection. Tradewright keeps going: whole-system comparison, pricing from your own price book and margin rules, a branded Good/Better/Best proposal, e-signature, deposit and financing, and the rebate packet. The point is not that one tool has more features. It is that the second visit disappears. The homeowner sees the engineering, the options and the price in the same sitting, and signs.

2. The homes the Northeast actually has

A large share of replacement jobs in New York and New England start from a boiler, radiators, or an oil tank in the basement. Those jobs need radiator heat-loss, supply-temperature checks and a serious dual-fuel option, not a ducted template. Tradewright designs hydronic, steam and oil homes and prices an oil-to-heat-pump conversion in the same proposal as a like-for-like boiler. We did not find hydronic design described on Conduit's site.

3. Reading the existing equipment

Tradewright reads the existing equipment from a nameplate photo and uses it as the baseline for the comparison: what the house has, what it costs to run, what a like-for-like replacement would cost over 15 years. That baseline is what makes a 15-year comparison honest instead of a sales pitch. Conduit's site does not describe nameplate reading.

4. The 15-year number, with the rejects shown

Heat pumps were about 47 percent of combined central air conditioner and heat pump shipments in 2025, and in cold climates the question a homeowner actually asks is "will it be cheaper than my furnace over time?" Tradewright answers that with an estimated 15-year cost of ownership for each system, with the energy prices and assumptions visible, and it shows the options that were ruled out and why. A homeowner who sees that a 3-ton standard heat pump was rejected because it would need 18,000 BTU/h of strip heat at 2°F trusts the one that was recommended.

5. Any CRM, or none

Most 10-to-50-employee replacement contractors in our beachhead run Housecall Pro, Jobber, FieldEdge or spreadsheets, not ServiceTitan. Tradewright connects to all of them and works fine with none. With the ServiceTitan acquisition announced, it is reasonable to expect Conduit to be increasingly a ServiceTitan feature. That is a strength if you are on ServiceTitan and a question mark if you are not.

6. Devices

Conduit's App Store listing covers iPad and Apple Vision, with LiDAR scanning on iPad Pro. Tradewright's scanning runs on LiDAR-equipped iPhones as well as iPads, and the office side runs in a browser. For a comfort advisor who already carries an iPhone Pro, that is one less device.

7. Price transparency

Tradewright publishes its pricing. Conduit quotes through a demo. Neither is wrong, but if you are comparing total cost per seat, you can do the math on one of them today.

Where Tradewright is the weaker choice

Honesty cuts both ways:

• ACCA listing. Conduit is on ACCA's approved software list. Tradewright is not, and will not apply before 2028. If a program or jurisdiction requires a tool from that list by name, that settles it today. Both NYS Clean Heat and Mass Save ask for a load calculation and documentation rather than a named tool; check the current program manuals, which we summarize in our NYS Clean Heat and Mass Save guides.
• Track record. Conduit has been in the field for years. Tradewright is new and working with founding partners. We publish no customer numbers because we do not have ones worth publishing yet.
• ServiceTitan depth. If you are all-in on ServiceTitan, a native feature will always integrate more deeply than a connected one.
• Commercial and new-construction takeoffs. Tradewright is built for residential replacement. Conduit's site mentions commercial loads; we do not do them.

How to choose

• You run ServiceTitan, sell ducted systems, and want an ACCA-listed Manual J on an iPad today: look at Conduit.
• You want the design and the signed proposal in one visit, you sell heat pumps against boilers and furnaces in a cold climate, you have oil and hydronic homes in your territory, or you run Housecall Pro, Jobber or FieldEdge: look at Tradewright.
• You are not sure the engineering matters to your close rate: run our free heat pump sizing calculator on a recent job and compare it with what was installed. That gap is the sale you are leaving on the table.

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