New: route optimization, powered by Google's routing engine

Starting today, JobVivi will plan your crew's driving day for you. Route optimization is live for all accounts — Starter and Pro alike — and it's built on the same Google Cloud routing engine that powers logistics fleets.

What it does

You know the morning ritual: eight jobs on the board, a truck, and five minutes of squinting at a map deciding who goes where in what order. Get it wrong by a couple of bad choices and you've bought your crew forty minutes of windshield time and a late arrival at the 2:00 that couldn't be late.

Now you press one button. JobVivi looks at the day's jobs, sends the problem to Google's Routes engine, and comes back with the sequence that minimizes drive time. The map view redraws with the stops numbered in order, and the schedule updates to match.

Two details we sweated over, because real days aren't a clean math problem:

Hard-start jobs stay put. If Mrs. Alvarez has a 2:00 PM window because that's when she's home to unlock the gate, that job is an anchor. The optimizer treats fixed-time jobs as constraints and sequences the flexible "anytime today" jobs around them. You'll never open the schedule to find your locked appointment quietly moved to 4:30.

You get the last word. The optimized order is a suggestion with good math behind it, not a mandate. Drag any stop to reorder and the route recalculates around your change. You know that the Hendersons' dog means that job takes twenty minutes longer than the system thinks — the software should accommodate what you know.

What it's worth

Fuel is the visible cost of a bad route, but it's the small one. The real costs are the extra jobs you didn't fit into the day and the overtime hour at the end of it. Across the businesses in our early testing, optimized days consistently recovered 30–60 minutes versus hand-ordered ones. On a two-crew operation, call it the equivalent of two to four extra jobs a week you can now say yes to — without anyone driving faster or working later.

There's also the arrival-time story. When the route is planned rather than improvised, your "we'll be there between 10 and 12" becomes trustworthy, and the on-my-way text (which JobVivi can send automatically) lands within minutes of reality. Customers notice. Their reviews mention it.

Where you'll find it

Open any day on the schedule and hit Optimize Route in the map view. Routes respect each crew separately, so a two-truck day optimizes as two independent runs. It works today for jobs with service addresses anywhere Google Maps has road data — which is to say, essentially everywhere you work.

One more thing worth repeating, because it's the way we do things: this is not a new tier, an add-on, or an "advanced logistics module." It's a button in the product you already pay for. Elsewhere, routing like this is a $50-to-$100-a-month upsell, or reserved for a plan that costs three times ours. Here it ships to everyone, because saving your crew an hour of driving is exactly the kind of thing this software is for.

Take it for a spin tomorrow morning. Worst case, it agrees with what you'd have done anyway — and you saved the five minutes of squinting.