How to find and export your JobNimbus data for AI training

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What is JobNimbus data, and why do AI labs and data vendors buy it?

What a JobNimbus account records

JobNimbus organizes work on boards, which are visual lists of columns where each contact or job sits in the column for its current stage, such as a new lead, an estimate sent or a job in production. Each record moves across the board as the work advances, and the account remembers when it moved.

Tasks, estimates, invoices and the photos and documents collected along the way are attached to the contact or job they belong to.

Why stage history teaches an AI model something

An AI model learns by studying a very large number of examples and finding the patterns in them, and those examples are called training data. A board shows the order in which a contractor does things and how long each step takes, from the first call to the final payment. The photos and documents on a job add the evidence behind each step.

AI labs now also want to train AI agents, software that carries out a job step by step, and an agent learns a job from records of that job being done. The full mechanism is in AI training data: why AI companies want your company's data.

How JobNimbus fits into a dataset

JobNimbus is usually one of several apps in a company's dataset, next to email, accounting and customer records. Companies are paid $100K to $2M or more per dataset, according to micro1, the data vendor we typically refer companies to. The price covers the whole dataset, not each app on its own, and what your data is worth explains what moves it.

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Where does JobNimbus show how much data you have?

How to count contacts and jobs

The steps below follow JobNimbus's guide, How do I back up or copy my account data, and its page on exporting Custom Reports.

1. Open the Reports tab and create a new Custom Report for the Contact record type, with no filters.
2. Save the report. JobNimbus shows the report overview.
3. Click the 3 dots to the right of the report title and choose Export to CSV.
4. Create a second Custom Report for the Job record type, export it the same way, and add the two row counts together.

Which roles and plans you need

JobNimbus's help center does not state which roles can create and export reports. If the Reports tab is missing, ask the account administrator or JobNimbus support, because the tab depends on what your account allows.

What the row count covers

An exported report contains only the records in the Custom Report you were viewing. A report with filters left on therefore under-counts the account, which is why the first report has none. Edits made to a report inside JobNimbus do not carry into a file that was already exported, so export again after changing a report.

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What should you know about your JobNimbus data before you apply?

The record count

The record count is contacts plus jobs, the sum of the two report exports. If you also use tasks or another record type, say which ones the figure covers.

The years of history

Add a created date column to your reports before you export, then read the oldest date in the file. Only the columns visible in a saved report reach the export, so this column has to be showing before you click Export.

The number of seats

A seat is one person with their own login. Count the users on your JobNimbus subscription, which includes office staff and the sales representatives and crew leads who sign in.

What you don't need to do first

You don't need to export anything to apply, and you don't need to clean or scrub records. The data vendor anonymizes the records before anyone else sees them, and nothing moves until a lawyer-reviewed license is signed. The application, the intro call and each later step are laid out in how to sell your company's data.

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How do you export your full JobNimbus history?

Export the records

1. Create and save a Custom Report for each record type you use, such as contacts, jobs and tasks, with every column you want showing.
2. Open the saved report and click the 3 dots to the right of its title.
3. Choose Export to CSV for a comma-separated file, or Export to Excel for a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
4. Save the file, and repeat for the next record type.

Only the columns visible in the saved view are exported, and only the records in that report. A field that is missing from the file was not showing in the report, so add the column in JobNimbus, save, and export again. JobNimbus does not print reports, but a downloaded file can be printed from a program on your computer.

Download photos and documents

1. Open a contact or a job.
2. Click Download All to save a zip file of every attachment on that record.
3. Repeat for each record whose files you want.

The download works one record at a time, as the JobNimbus backup page says, and there is no way to send everything to a thumb drive or other storage in one step.

What the exports leave out and what to do about errors

The report files carry fields and nothing else. JobNimbus backs up your data on its own servers, but that backup is not something you can download. If an export shows an error reading "login is required", signing out of JobNimbus and back in clears it.

Sources: JobNimbus Help Center, How Do I Backup or Copy My Account Data? and Is There a Way to Export My Classic Reports?. Steps checked against these pages in November 2026.

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What stays private when JobNimbus data is licensed?

You choose what is in scope

JobNimbus has no all-at-once export, so the company picks the record types and the attachments it exports. A company can share its job reports and keep photos and documents back. The data vendor also deletes records too sensitive to clean safely instead of anonymizing them.

Names are replaced before a lab sees them

Anonymization means replacing every detail that identifies a person or a place, such as a name, a phone number or an address, with a stand-in that is the same every time it appears. The job still reads in order, so a lab can learn from it, but it no longer says who the customer is or where they live. The diagram below shows one job before and after.

The method, including what is deleted outright and how you review samples, is in how company data is anonymized for AI training.

Ownership and payment

Licensing gives the buyer limited rights to a copy, while the company keeps ownership of the originals. The terms that matter, such as exclusivity, permitted use and deletion, are covered in data licensing. micro1 pays in full within 30 days of accepting the data, usually as a single payment.