Better Than ServiceTitan for Small Trades — Free Calculators That Show Their Work
ServiceTitan is built for 50-truck HVAC, plumbing, and electrical shops with a dispatcher, a GM, and a dedicated sales desk. For a three-person crew, it is almost always the wrong tool — the onboarding alone eats a month and the per-seat bill makes margins worse, not better. If the real problem is that your quotes stall or get beat on price, the lever is not a six-figure stack: it is pricing you can defend and a proposal the homeowner can actually read. Reise gives you both for free on the calculator side, with a paid teardown if you want the proposal rebuilt.
What makes Reise different
- Shows its math step by step so you can audit every number.
- Always free, with no account wall between you and the estimate.
- Built for 1099 contractors who need practical planning, not vague averages.
Featured calculator
Contractor vs Employee Break-Even Calculator
What hourly rate do you need as a contractor to match your current W-2 salary? Enter your employer's exact benefits package (health, 401k match, PTO), expected contractor expenses, and billable hours to see your break-even rate and contractor premium.
Simple comparison
| Feature | Reise | ServiceTitan |
|---|---|---|
| Full dispatch + routing + call center tooling | ||
| Fits a 1-5 truck shop without a dispatcher | ✗ | |
| Contractor break-even + project margin math | ✗ | |
| Free, always, with no per-seat pricing | ||
| Founder-led proposal teardown service | ✗ |
FAQ
When is ServiceTitan actually the right call?
When you are at 20+ trucks, have a dispatcher, and the bottleneck is call center routing and KPI visibility. Below that scale, the seat count alone wipes out the efficiency gain — and the pricing/proposal problem isn't what ServiceTitan is solving.
What does Reise do that ServiceTitan does not?
Reise doesn't do dispatch, routing, or call-tracking — ServiceTitan is better at those. Reise does the pricing math (break-even, overhead allocation, project-level profitability) and the proposal itself. The free calculators show every formula; the optional $750 teardown rebuilds the quote document around how your buyer decides.
Can I run ServiceTitan and still use Reise?
Yes. Teams that run full FSM still paste their quote into the free Proposal OS audit at /proposal-os/free-audit to get an outside read on the close-rate angle. The audit is a planning tool, not a workflow — it doesn't replace anything.
Is there a version of Reise for large commercial trades?
The calculators are the same — they scale by input, not by tool. The proposal teardown works at any scale; the framing we rebuild the pitch around is just different for a $40k residential job vs. a $400k commercial retrofit. Reply to the audit email and we can talk through the commercial angle.
Ready to see the math?
Every formula. Every bracket. Every deduction. No signup, no upsell, no advisor pitch — just the numbers you need to plan your quarter.