Turn a day's bookings into an optimized driving route automatically

Pulls the day's confirmed bookings from your database and returns the most efficient route with stops and navigation links.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsAPI & Webhook Integration
Connects
PostgreSQLGoogle Maps
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The problem it solves

Planning the day's route by hand for deliveries or service calls means guessing at the best order to visit stops, which wastes drive time and fuel. As the day's bookings change, replanning the route manually gets old fast. Your team ends up driving more than they need to, and appointments run late.

Who it fits

Delivery, field service, or home visit businesses that need an optimized route for a day's bookings.

How it works

  1. Triggers with a request for a specific date
  2. Pulls all confirmed bookings for that date from your database
  3. Groups the addresses, service types, and customer details
  4. Sends the stops to Google's route optimization service to find the most efficient order
  5. Returns the optimized stop order along with navigation links and customer details for each stop
Quick estimate

What it is worth to you

Your numbers, your hourly cost. We add nothing hidden.

per week
minutes
$ per hour
0Hours freed per month
0Value per year at your hourly cost

Counts only the manual planning time saved, not any drive-time or fuel savings from a better route order.

What you get

An optimized route with stop order, navigation links, and customer details for the day's bookings.

What you need

A PostgreSQL database of bookings and a Google Maps API key with the Routes API enabled.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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