Harvest Integration

Harvest Integration: Time Tracking Meets Analytics

Gather time entries, project hours, and billing data from Harvest automatically. Transform time tracking into insights within BigQuery or Power BI.

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Improvado Agent
Connected to Harvest
What's our Harvest performance this month vs last?
This month's blended ROAS is 4.2x, up from 3.8x last month (+10.5%).

Top performer: Brand campaigns at 8.1x ROAS.
Pause any ad groups under 1.5x ROAS
Found 7 ad groups below threshold. Pausing now — estimated savings: $12,400/mo.
1,000+
Integrations
200+
Harvest Fields
99.9%
SLA Uptime
<5 min
Setup
SOC 2
Type II
Trusted by ASUS Activision SXSW Dentsu Havas GroupM
Key Takeaways

Connect Harvest to your data warehouse

Improvado integrates with Harvest's API to extract time entries, project budgets, billable hours, and expense data. Setup completes in 8 minutes without any coding required. Your time tracking data syncs every hour automatically, providing real-time insights into project profitability and team utilization. All authentication tokens and API pagination are handled seamlessly.

200+ metrics and dimensions Campaigns, ad groups, keywords, audiences, geo, device — all granularity levels from the Harvest API
15-minute refresh cycles Near real-time sync with 99.9% SLA uptime. No stale dashboards.
Cross-channel normalization Marketing CDM unifies your data with 1,000+ sources into one schema. No manual mapping.
Any warehouse or BI tool Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio
AI Agent access via MCP Query, write, and monitor Harvest through Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client
Enterprise-grade security SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA. Raw data never leaves your environment.
OAuth setup in under 5 minutes No API keys, no code, no developer setup. Schema changes handled automatically.
Zero ongoing maintenance Pagination, rate limits, API versioning — all managed. Your team focuses on analysis.
How it works

From connection to autonomous action in three steps

1

Connect

Authenticate Harvest via OAuth in under 5 minutes. Improvado normalizes your data across 1,000+ sources automatically.

2

Ask

Your AI agent queries Harvest performance in natural language. Trends, anomalies, cross-channel comparisons — one conversation.

3

Act

The agent pauses underperformers, adjusts settings, generates executive reports, and monitors anomalies — every action logged.

About this integration

Extract All Your Marketing Data from Harvest

Harvest - a time tracking and invoicing platform.

This Improvado integration is available by request only. Unlike our typical API integrations which can be set up by anyone in just a few clicks, this one will need a bit of work on our side (and maybe even on yours). Sometimes we need to play together to achieve the best results for everyone.

Integration details

Unified time data across business platforms

Improvado's Marketing Common Data Model combines Harvest time data with financial, marketing, and operational metrics. Calculate true project ROI by connecting billable hours with revenue and marketing spend. Analyze team productivity alongside campaign performance without manual data exports. Your time tracking data maintains consistent formatting with CRM, accounting, and marketing platform data.

Use Cases

What teams ask their AI agent about Harvest

Real prompts from enterprise marketing teams. The agent reads your data, answers in seconds, and takes action when you ask.

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Improvado Agent Analysis

Calculate project ROI by connecting billable hours with marketing spend and revenue

Your AI agent analyzes Harvest data and delivers actionable insights — automatically, in seconds.

7 hrs → 12 min
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Improvado Agent Cross-channel

Optimize team allocation by analyzing productivity patterns across client projects

Your AI agent analyzes Harvest data and delivers actionable insights — automatically, in seconds.

Manual → auto
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Improvado Agent Reporting

Generate executive reports on billable utilization and project profitability trends

Your AI agent analyzes Harvest data and delivers actionable insights — automatically, in seconds.

5 hrs → 20 min
AI Agent Access

Your agent doesn't just read Harvest — it acts on it

Read

Pull metrics, dimensions, and trends from Harvest — across every account and campaign. Your AI handles the query.

Write

Launch campaigns, pause underperformers, adjust settings. Every action logged and governed.

Monitor

Anomaly alerts, budget pacing watches, weekly auto-reports. Problems caught before they burn budget.

Query, write, and monitor Harvest through Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client. Every action is logged and governed.

Claude ChatGPT Cursor Gemini Any MCP Client
Improvado MCP — Harvest
> Show top 5 campaigns by performance this month
Campaign Spend ROAS
Brand — Exact $4,200 8.1x
Non-Brand $12,800 4.7x
Retargeting — 30d $3,100 4.2x
Competitor $8,400 3.1x
DSA — Blog $2,600 2.8x
5 campaigns • $31,100 total spend • avg 4.6x ROAS
> Pause all ad groups below 1.5x ROAS
✓ 7 ad groups paused • est. savings $12,400/mo
Destinations

Send Harvest data anywhere

Load normalized data to your preferred warehouse, BI tool, or cloud storage.

Snowflake
BigQuery
Redshift
Databricks
Power BI
Tableau
Looker Studio
Google Sheets
Domo
Excel
Q Qlik
S3 Amazon S3
Metabase
Grafana
PostgreSQL
Azure SQL
SOC
SOC 2 Type II Audited data management
H
HIPAA Healthcare compliance
EU
GDPR EU data protection
CA
CCPA California privacy
Compare

They extract data. Improvado deploys an agent.

Traditional tools move data from A to B. Improvado gives you an AI agent that reads, acts, and monitors — with Harvest as one of 1,000+ integrated sources.

Feature Improvado Supermetrics Funnel.io Fivetran
Data fields extracted 200+ ~90 ~120 ~80
Total integrations 1,000+ ~150 ~500 ~300
Cross-channel normalization (CDM) ✓ Built-in ✗ Manual ● Basic mapping ✗ Raw only
AI Agent access (MCP) ✓ Read, Write, Monitor
Data warehouse destinations ✓ 16+ warehouses & BI tools Sheets, Looker, BigQuery BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift ✓ Broad warehouse support
Refresh frequency Every 15 min Scheduled triggers Daily / 6hr Every 15 min (premium)
SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA ✗ SOC 2 only ✓ SOC 2
Best for Teams that want an AI agent, not a pipeline Small teams, spreadsheets Mid-market, data teams Engineering-led ELT pipelines

Comparison based on publicly available documentation as of April 2026. Feature availability may vary by plan tier.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Improvado extracts time entries, projects, tasks, clients, expenses, invoices, and team member data from Harvest. All data includes billable rates, project budgets, and productivity metrics for comprehensive financial analysis.

Put an AI agent on your Harvest today

Connect in under 5 minutes. Your agent starts reading, acting, and monitoring immediately.