Harvest
· #222 most-usedTime tracked, invoices sent — without lifting a finger
Harvest is time-tracking and invoicing software built for agencies, consultants, and professional-services teams at getharvest.com. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can log time entries from calendar events and task completions, generate invoices at month-end without anyone touching the UI, send payment reminders to overdue clients, and pull utilisation reports across every active project — all triggered by the events already happening in your other tools.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual timesheet entry, invoice creation, and payment-follow-up emails — the three biggest drains on billable-service teams each week.
What your Harvest agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Harvest × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Invoice paid → close the loop in 60 seconds
When a Harvest invoice is marked paid, your agent fires the entire post-payment sequence before the client's bank confirmation email even arrives — it reads the invoice details, logs the payment in the project tracker, schedules the 30-day check-in call, and pings the account team in Slack with the closed ARR figure. No more scanning inboxes for payment confirmations or manually updating project finances.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales25 min / weekManual project setup
After a deal closes, a sales rep manually creates the Harvest client, project, and budget — often hours or days after the signature.
Sales Agent0 minAgent creates project on deal closeThe moment a deal moves to Closed Won, the agent creates the Harvest client, project, and budget cap — before the celebratory Slack message finishes loading.
- Marketing18 min / weekRetainer budget tracking
A marketing manager manually checks Harvest each week to see how many hours have been logged against a retainer, then updates a spreadsheet for the client report.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent monitors burn rate liveThe agent tracks logged hours against the retainer cap in real time and posts a weekly burn-rate card to the client Slack channel — no spreadsheet, no manual check.
- Customer Support25 min / weekSupport hours invoicing
At the end of each month, a support lead manually tallies resolved tickets, estimates hours spent, and adds them to the client invoice as a single line item.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent logs ticket time to invoiceWhen each support ticket resolves, the agent logs the exact time-to-resolution as a Harvest entry — the invoice is built from precise per-ticket data, not estimates.
- Human Resources10 min / weekNew-hire Harvest provisioning
HR manually creates each new hire's Harvest account after their first day, often leaving a gap where early hours go unrecorded.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent provisions user at offer signWhen a new hire signs their offer letter, the agent creates their Harvest account with the correct cost rate — they can log hours from their very first minute.
- Finance18 min / weekMonth-end invoice creation
A finance manager spends 2–3 hours each month-end pulling unbilled time entries, calculating totals, and manually creating invoices for each active client.
Finance Agent0 minAgent runs invoice batch on scheduleOn the last day of each month, the agent fetches all unbilled entries per client, creates itemised invoices with correct billing methods, and dispatches them — the billing cycle closes in minutes.
- Operations36 min / weekWeekly utilisation reporting
An ops lead spends 45 minutes each Friday pulling time entries per team member from Harvest, calculating utilisation rates, and formatting a spreadsheet for the leadership review.
Operations Agent0 minAgent posts utilisation digest automaticallyEvery Friday at 4 PM, the agent computes each team member's utilisation rate from Harvest entries and posts the ranked table to Slack — leadership has the numbers before anyone logs off.
- Legal8 min / weekMatter time reconciliation
A legal ops coordinator manually cross-references Harvest time entries against billed matter hours each month to confirm no billable time was missed before invoicing clients.
Legal Agent0 minAgent flags unmatched entriesThe agent compares logged Harvest hours against invoiced amounts each billing cycle and flags any time entries not yet invoiced — nothing falls through the cracks.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Harvest's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Harvest into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
The fastest path to Harvest. Install the ianaleck/harvest-mcp-server in one click and the agent reaches your time entries, projects, invoices, and clients through a permissioned token handshake — no credentials to copy, no tokens to rotate.
Find Harvest in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.
In Harvest, go to Settings → Integrations → Personal Access Tokens and generate a token. Paste it into the MCP server configuration when prompted — this is a one-time step.
Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready to log time, create invoices, and manage projects.
63 action your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
10 event your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
Skills that pair with Harvest
Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.
Scrapes Harvest's web interface when the API doesn't expose what you need — for example, downloading invoice PDFs or extracting reports that aren't available via the REST API.
Pairs with Harvest expense and invoice data to analyse project-level margin against market benchmarks and treasury positions.
Audits any Harvest automation skill for security vulnerabilities before deployment — especially useful for workflows that handle invoice amounts or client billing data.
MCP servers that work with Harvest
Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.
Dedicated Harvest MCP server exposing 40+ tools for time entries, projects, clients, invoices, and expenses — the recommended integration path for full Harvest API coverage.
Extracts reusable component libraries and design tokens from Vue applications — unrelated to Harvest time-tracking; use only if your workflow involves Vue UI component extraction.
Wraps the Greenhouse Harvest API v1 for recruiting data — useful when pairing Harvest time tracking with Greenhouse hiring workflows to track recruiter hours per role.