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01Why use Nomad instead of Excel or Notion?

A spreadsheet is a record you maintain; Nomad is a record that maintains itself, because the rows are applications and your mailbox is what moves them. The trade is that it is opinionated - six stages, one pipeline, aimed at finance, consulting and tech - where a spreadsheet will happily model anything and remind you of nothing.

02How does the email sync and security work?

When you link your Gmail or IMAP mailbox, IMAP passwords are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they are stored, and Google tokens can be revoked at any time. Nomad only scans and classifies career-related threads (interviews, offers, rejections) and ignores unrelated personal messages.

03Is my data sent to AI models or used for training?

Nomad parses job postings and emails with Google's Gemini API. Under Google's API terms, prompts sent through the API are not used to train their models, so your resumes, emails, and notes stay out of public training data. Only the text needed for a given parse is sent, nothing more.

04How does Nomad find new openings?

Nomad keeps a curated list of target firms across finance, consulting, and tech, and scans each firm's own career page on a rolling schedule, flagging new openings as they appear. Because it renders the page directly instead of reading a shared feed, it reaches the boutiques and bespoke sites that don't run a standard job portal - not just the big ATS platforms. You can also paste any job URL - Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Personio, Workday, or a firm's own site - and it extracts the role, company, and requirements for you.

05Can I export my data?

Yes, from Settings, as a full JSON snapshot of your applications, documents and mail at any time. To be clear about where it lives in the meantime: this is a hosted app, so your data sits in a managed Postgres database rather than on your own machine. The export exists so that leaving costs you one click, not a support ticket.