Plan the ride around the group, not the rider.

Fuel sized to the smallest tank riding. ETAs that scale with headcount. Home before dark, checked against the real sunset. Start from a GPX, the map, or a paragraph. Planning a group ride is an evening of drudgery — hunting for the good roads, checking fuel range against the smallest tank in the group, guessing arrival times, then retyping all of it into an email. Waylead does that part.

• Start it three ways. Upload a GPX you already have, draw it on the map, or describe the ride and let the Route Architect draft it.
• Describe it. It plans it. Tell the Route Architect what you're after and it drafts the whole thing — the roads, the stops with real addresses and opening hours, a chronological itinerary, and its reasoning for the shape it chose.
• Then shape it exactly right. Drag the route onto the roads you actually want; shaping points snap to real roads. Bias the route direct, balanced or twisty, and avoid highways, tolls, ferries or unpaved.
• Caught before you commit. Every route audits itself — a fuel gap, an arrival after sunset, a section flagged as possibly impassable, unpaved and off-road spans, ferries and rail crossings, wildfire near the line, wind and air quality at the hour you'll actually be there.
• A GPX that won't argue. Every plan exports both ways at once — a track that traces the exact line you drew, and a routable route your riders' devices can navigate turn by turn, with a named waypoint on every stop. Anti-recalculation shaping points keep a GPS on your road instead of recalculating its own.
• Riders never sign up. They open a link on any phone — no app, no account — and RSVP right from it.
• A home base for your group. Your organization gets its own public page with a season of rides, a shared route library, co-leaders in one workspace, and RSVPs collected on the ride page. Share a live ride card, your whole calendar, or the brief inline — on your own site, or as a link that unfurls with the map.

What it does

Waylead map-matches your route to real roads, then finds the things a group gets wrong: the navigation decisions, fuel for the group's smallest tank, timing that scales with headcount, weather and wildfire near the route, and the fastest paved bail-out from any exit. It then hands you the briefing, the GPX, and a link every rider can open with no app and no account. Start a route by uploading a GPX, describing the ride you want to the Route Architect, or drawing it on the map.

Three steps to a plan

1. Start a route — upload a GPX, describe it to the Route Architect, or draw it on the map.
2. Set the group — riders, the smallest tank's range, kickstands-up time, staging. Every ETA re-times as you change them.
3. Share and collect RSVPs — a short link and a QR give riders the map, ETAs, and a briefing PDF with no PII, and they reply going, maybe or can't right on it, with no account.

Straight answers

Does it invent roads and stops?

The Route Architect picks which roads to string together; a routing engine draws the actual line over real road data, so what comes out is a road that exists and connects. Stops are geocoded against live map data, and hours and phone numbers come from the same place — call ahead anyway, listings go stale. When a stop can't be confirmed, the plan flags it rather than quietly shipping the pin.

Do I have to use the AI at all?

No. Upload a GPX or draw it on the map and the Route Architect never enters it. The group maths, the audit, the packet and the share link all work the same on a route you drew yourself.

I already have the route. Does that help me?

That's the fastest way in. Upload the GPX and you skip to the part this is for: fuel against the smallest tank, ETAs for the group you're actually taking, the leader packet, the link.

Do my riders need an app or an account?

No. They open a link on whatever phone they have — map, ETAs, stops, the briefing PDF — and answer going, maybe or can't right on it. Nothing to install, nothing to explain at the pre-ride briefing.

Can I get my work back out?

Every plan exports a GPX both ways — a track and a routable route — plus the rider PDF, the leader packet and the roadbook. Nothing you build here is trapped here.

What if it gets something wrong?

A finding that happens somewhere names the mile it happens at — the fuel gap, the after-dark arrival, the fire near the line — so you can check the ones that matter instead of taking our word for the lot. It does the arithmetic and the lookups; you still ride the road.

Lead the ride, not the chaos. See a real ride, screen by screen, or sign in — you're the only one who signs in; riders just open your share link.

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