52 Harvest Testimonials

“I clocked in under my 10,000th hour last year with Harvest — so we've nerded out on Harvest for a long time. And we've really seen it evolve with our company and now we have it where it's really simple and we can build in a lot of automation.”

“I think the thing we feel best about is our original goal, which was to create this agency where the quality of the work was the number one priority and not just become a machine that’s executing things for clients."

"For me, it’s about understanding the scope of a project, how much time we’re spending on it, and the value of that work."

“For us, it is really important that our clients feel that we work closely with them to solve any of their problems together, as one team."

"It’s very rare that anybody actually questions the invoices because the people who pay the invoices recognize the names, and they know that they’re on the team."

“When COVID happened, we had eight years of consistent time entry reporting and budget tracking under our belts. We were in a good position with our projects—and if there were projects that weren’t performing well enough, we were aware of it and could make an adequate response.”

“It works well because you have continuity. A lot of the same people who are designing might be involved in the construction management, and we can go out to the nursery and see whether the plant material we want to use is available.”

"Harvest was a better way of keeping things real, understanding what I was spending time on and whether these jobs were as profitable as I was imagining them to be."

“The program we used offered a lot more features and settings. Though, in the end, it wound up being overly complicated to navigate all of those features, many of which were unnecessary.”

“We handle general reporting on a weekly and monthly basis. We have weekly gut checks on our project burns and forecasting profitability going forward. We love the filters available under reporting, i.e. custom reporting options. Most of our reporting reviews are internal, but we’ve recently started sharing the PDF views of reports with clients, which we’ve received positive feedback on in terms of clarity and legibility.”

“Using Harvest has helped us become more proactive as a team. When timesheets are easy to enter, we have good data to work with. Everyone has a clear picture of how a project is progressing and can see problems before they happen – allowing us to respond and be more profitable without sacrificing creativity.”

“Any type of new project—animation, for example, which is new—that can be potentially a big project in terms of hours, we’ll look at the postmortem of ‘predicted versus actual’."

“Time tracking has helped us understand that we (and our clients) don’t realize how long it takes to design great work.”

"Having an easy, clean way to track time allows us to focus on the tough engineering problems where we bring value to our clients."

“Harvest was one of the first tools the founders signed up for. We had a Harvest account before we had a Gmail account.”