Which signings should a mobile notary or loan signing agent take today?

Ten offered signings, one notary: which should you take today?

Saying yes in the order the title companies text you, or taking the biggest fee first, fills the day with the wrong signings. Paste the offers — fee, print cost, appointment length, the window each borrower gives you and where they are — and get the exact set and order of signings with the highest profit for the day, the drive and idle time it implies, what each signing it turns down would need to pay, and what first-come booking leaves behind.

For mobile notaries, loan signing agents and other one-person appointment-driven field businesses. Nothing is uploaded: the text box is analysed in this browser and never leaves your device.

1. Paste the offers

One row per signing: name, price, print and supply cost, service minutes, window opens, latest start, miles east of the home base, miles north, optional note (up to 14 signings)

You leave at Back by Your cost per hour ($) Cost per mile ($) Average speed (mph) Road miles per straight-line mile

2. The day

Route

#	Signing	Arrive	Wait (min)	Start	Finish	Miles driven	Margin after drive

Signings turned down

Signing	Why	Quoted price	Worth taking at

Against simple rules

Rule	Signings	Day profit

Prefer a CLI?

Same logic, zero dependencies, one command — reads a file or stdin:

node cli.mjs plan signings.csv --start 08:00 --end 17:00 --hourly 35 --per-mile 0.70 --json
cat signings.csv | node cli.mjs plan - --speed 25

Get cli.mjs and engine.mjs — Node 18+, nothing to install, no network call. More: Which signings should a notary take in a day? Window and drive-time math.

What's recognised

Input	Handling

The plan is exact for the numbers you type (a search over every set and order, up to 14 signings). One agent and one home base; real traffic, one-way streets, a second notary, signings that must follow each other, customer cancellations and the value of a repeat customer are not modelled. Distance is straight-line miles times your circuity factor, not a routing service.

Common questions

Does it upload my signing list?

No. The browser page works on the text you paste, in your own browser, and never sends it anywhere. The CLI reads a local file or stdin and makes no network call.

How is the best day found?

The tool tries the signings as a search over which have been done and which was last, keeping every way to get there that is not both later and less profitable than another. That finds the exact best set and order for the numbers you give, and the tests compare it with trying every ordering of every subset.

Why would it turn down a signing I would normally take?

Because an agent can only be in one place. A signing that pays well but drives you across the map, or sits in a window that collides with two better signings, can cost more than the two it displaces. The tool says what the signing would need to pay to earn its place.

Where do the costs come from?

From your own books: fuel and wear per mile, and what an hour of your time costs you. They are your estimates, so treat the plan as a decision aid, not a forecast.

Who is it for?

Mobile notaries and loan signing agents choosing which offered signings to take today.