ServiceTitan (Nasdaq: TTAN), the software platform that powers the trades, announced in September 2025 the acquisition of Conduit Tech — an HVAC design and sales platform that leverages next-generation LiDAR technology to build permit-ready load calculations and drive customer engagement. The transaction is expected to close in ServiceTitan's fiscal third quarter 2026, bringing Conduit's capabilities directly into ServiceTitan's contractor platform as a fully integrated tool.

The Conduit Tech acquisition is the most significant technology advancement in HVAC sales and load calculation in years. The Manual J load calculation — which the ACCA standard requires for proper system sizing — has historically been a time-consuming process that requires measuring rooms, inputting insulation values, selecting climate data, and running calculations through specialised software. Conduit compresses this entire process: a contractor scans a home with an iPad using LiDAR sensors, generates a 2D floor plan and 3D model, and produces an ACCA-certified Manual J load calculation in under 15 minutes.

What Conduit Tech Does — The Technology Explained

Conduit Tech was founded in 2022 by Marisa Reddy and Shelby Breger specifically to solve a problem that every HVAC contractor who has tried to do proper Manual J calculations knows intimately: the process is too slow, too complex, and too dependent on specialised software for the typical field technician to execute consistently.

Conduit's LiDAR-powered platform changes all of this:

• Scan with an iPad: Modern iPads with LiDAR sensors can measure spaces with centimetre-level accuracy. Conduit's software uses these sensors to capture room dimensions, ceiling heights, window locations, and architectural features automatically — eliminating the manual measurement process that previously required tape measures, sketch pads, and significant time.

• Generate 2D and 3D models: The scan produces both a 2D floor plan and a 3D model of the home automatically — giving contractors visual documentation that can be shared with customers and used for proposal generation.

• ACCA-certified Manual J calculations: Conduit integrates with weather data and construction type databases to produce ACCA Manual J-certified load calculations that are usable for permitting — the same output that previously required specialised software and significant expertise.

• Photo-realistic equipment visualisations: The platform can generate photo-realistic renderings of HVAC units and system designs in the customer's actual home environment — turning an abstract proposal into a visual experience that improves customer understanding and confidence.

ServiceTitan's acquisition of Conduit Tech brings LiDAR-powered HVAC design capability into the industry's leading field service management platform — enabling contractors to scan homes with an iPad, generate ACCA-certified Manual J load calculations, and produce photo-realistic installation visualisations in under 15 minutes, transforming the HVAC sales and sizing process.

Why This Matters for the Manual J Problem

The HVAC industry has a persistent oversizing problem. Studies consistently find that 40 to 50 percent of installed HVAC systems are oversized relative to proper Manual J calculations — a consequence of contractors sizing by replacement matching (replacing the old system's tonnage rather than calculating actual load) or by rule-of-thumb estimation rather than calculation.

Oversized systems short-cycle, provide poor dehumidification, use more energy than necessary, and create comfort complaints that damage contractor relationships. The root cause is not that contractors don't know Manual J matters — it is that doing it correctly has historically required time and software expertise that field technicians do not have during a sales call.

Conduit solves this by making the correct approach faster than the incorrect approach: scanning a home with an iPad takes less time than manually sizing by tonnage estimation, produces better results, and generates customer-facing visualisations that support the sales conversation. When doing it right is also doing it faster, compliance with best practices follows naturally.

The ServiceTitan Integration Context

ServiceTitan's integration of Conduit into its platform creates a workflow that connects load calculation, proposal generation, job scheduling, and field service management in a single system. A contractor who uses ServiceTitan for dispatch, invoicing, and customer management will now have Conduit's LiDAR scanning and proposal tools available in the same platform — reducing the number of separate applications a technician needs during a sales call from multiple to one.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Conduit Tech?

Conduit Tech is a LiDAR-powered HVAC design and sales platform founded in 2022. Using an iPad with LiDAR sensors, contractors can scan homes, generate 2D floor plans and 3D models, produce ACCA-certified Manual J load calculations, and create photo-realistic installation visualisations — all in under 15 minutes. ServiceTitan announced its acquisition in September 2025, closing Q3 2026.

What is a Manual J load calculation?

A Manual J load calculation is the ACCA-standard method for determining the correct size of an HVAC system for a specific building — accounting for insulation, window area, orientation, ceiling height, local climate, and other factors. Proper Manual J calculations prevent the oversizing (40-50% of installed systems are oversized) that causes poor comfort, energy waste, and dehumidification problems.