Days 11-12: The Content System + Full Data Export

Two big projects back to back.

The Content Library

After years of remodeling, I have thousands of project photos — before, during, after. They were scattered across phones, cloud storage, and job folders with no organization.

Built a content library system with:

• SQLite database tracking every piece of content
• AI auto-tagging — the AI looks at each photo and tags it: room type, renovation phase, style, materials visible
• Smart connections — link photos to jobs, clients, timelines
• Calendar integration — plan social posts from the library

Hundreds of photos tagged and organized in a few hours. Manually? That's a week of work I'd never do.

The Full Database Export

Then the big one. I'm considering building a custom app to replace our job management software. Step one: get ALL the data out.

Jarvis exported everything from JobTread via their API:

• 97 jobs — every project we've ever tracked
• 4,766 cost items — every line item from every estimate
• 1,794 files — photos, documents, contracts
• 698 documents — estimates, invoices, change orders
• 573 tasks — every to-do across every project
• 348 payments — full financial history

All organized by job, exported to CSV and JSON, with actual files downloaded. Our complete business history, portable and analyzable.

Why This Matters

Your data is your leverage. When it's locked in someone else's software, you're a hostage. When it's exported and organized, you can build anything — custom dashboards, AI analysis, migration to better tools, or your own software entirely.

I'm planning to feed all this data to AI and have it build a custom business management app designed specifically for how remodeling companies actually work. Not how some Silicon Valley PM thinks we work.