Conquest vs Cushion

Conquest is a financial planning platform built around its Strategic Advice Manager (SAM), an engine that evaluates and ranks strategies, models life events, and responds to client questions. SAM combines a calculation engine with a proprietary AI expert system to produce deterministic, repeatable, auditable results. One engine supports self-directed, hybrid, and advisor-led planning across retirement, investment, insurance, tax, business succession, estate, corporate, and family trust needs. The platform includes a client portal, cash-flow modeling, goal planning, scenario analysis, and tax, insurance, and investment planning. An open two-way API can connect SAM to existing technology or custom advisor and client experiences. Its MCP Server connects plan data to assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot, with firm-controlled access and authenticated connections. The independent-advisor offering lists Charles Schwab, TradePMR, held-away account aggregation, Zocks, and Jump as live at launch; Wealthbox and portfolio reporting are described as forthcoming. Conquest was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The company says it serves more than 1,000 firms across Canada, the US, and the UK and has powered more than 2.5 million financial plans.

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