Conquest vs Meridian Planning
Conquest
conquestplanning.comMeridian Planning
meridianplanning.appSide by side
| Figure | Conquest | Meridian Planning |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $49/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Financial Advisor Software | 8.7 (#3) | 7.8 (#12) |
| Product | Conquest's Strategic Advice Manager (SAM) is a financial advice engine that evaluates and ranks strategies, models life events, and responds to client questions. | Meridian describes itself as a practice management platform for financial advisors who also do tax. |
| Support | Enterprise pricing includes guided implementation, onboarding, data migration, team training, and a named success team with a 24/7 enterprise SLA. | The Small Practice plan includes priority support. |
Plans
Conquest
- Independent advisor early-access trialFree
- Independent advisors & RIAsFree
- Enterprise wealth-firm deploymentPriced on request
- Enterprise wealth firmsPriced on request
Meridian Planning
- Founding Member rate$49 a month
- Solo Advisor$79 a month
- Small Practice$149 a month
- Enterprise$299 a month
In their own words
Conquest
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.
Meridian Planning
Meridian Planning has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.