Harvest
General-purpose time-tracking and invoicing tool, not architecture-specific, that many small firms use to bill clients and track project profitability.
AI Washing
4.2 /5 composite score
The most solo-friendly and cheapest entry point, free for one user, but it's just time-and-billing -- you'll outgrow it for true project financials and proposals as you scale.
Rubric Scorecard
| Criterion | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Maturity | 5/5 | Long-running product cited with 70,000+ companies and a deep independent review history. |
| AEC Specificity | 2/5 | Generic time/billing tool with no A/E-specific phases or fee structures -- architects adapt it rather than it being built for them. |
| Integration | 4/5 | Broad integrations including QuickBooks, Xero, and calendar tools that fit a small firm's stack. |
| Value / Pricing | 5/5 | Transparent pricing with a genuine free tier (1 seat, 2 projects) and $9-14/seat/month paid plans -- excellent ROI for a solo. |
| Evidence | 5/5 | Public pricing, large named customer list, and wide independent coverage. |
How we verified this: we checked Harvest against its live site and an independent source — thedigitalprojectmanager.com. Nothing on this page is listed from memory. See how we review.
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