Running the Router
Click Generate. Most tours come back in 15–45 seconds with a real route, a map, projected earnings, and a short reasoning paragraph.
When you'd use this
You've set up your tour shell with anchor dates and constraints, and you're ready to let the Router propose a full route.
How to run it
- Open the tour → Route tab.
- Click Generate.
- Wait. The button shows a loading state while the Router runs.
- Result lands in the Route tab: a map, an ordered stop list, per-leg and tour-total P&L, and a plain-English reasoning paragraph.
Why 15–45 seconds
- Simpler tours (3–5 stops, one region) usually finish in about 15 seconds.
- Complex tours (10+ stops, cross-country, tight constraints) can take 30–45 seconds.
- Very complex or conflicting-constraint tours can push toward the upper end. In the rare case where the Router can't converge, we return its best-effort route and tell you what got dropped.
Re-running
While a tour is in Draft state, you can re-run the Router as many times as you want:
- After adding an anchor — re-run to see how it integrates.
- After tightening a constraint — re-run to see the impact.
- Just to see variation — re-running with no changes usually produces a similar route with small differences.
Every re-run is a fresh pass and replaces the current draft route. Route history and version compare are not part of the current Router — if you want to keep an earlier draft, lock the tour or export the P&L before re-running.
Cost
Included in every plan. No per-run charges — you run the Router as many times as you want while shaping a tour.
Partial results
If the Router can't satisfy all your constraints at once, it returns a best-effort route with the reasoning paragraph explaining what got dropped or compromised. You can accept the partial, or adjust your constraints and re-run.
Still stuck?
- Router timed out. Rare. Narrow the constraints or split the run into two tours (e.g., East Coast run + Midwest run separately).
- Generated route doesn't vibe. See Editing and regenerating a route.