Time tracking that fits inside your whole practice.

Harvest is one of the best time tracking tools available — full stop. It’s clean, reliable, fast, and focused. The timer is smooth, the reports are clear, the invoicing is solid, and the integration ecosystem is massive. Harvest connects to Asana, Slack, QuickBooks, and dozens more. For any team that needs standalone time tracking, it’s hard to beat.

The mobile apps are also excellent — starting a timer on your phone is genuinely effortless. And the Forecast add-on helps with resource planning. If your only need is tracking time and billing hourly, Harvest does that job beautifully.

The challenge for architecture practices is that time tracking is only one piece of the puzzle. Harvest tracks hours, but it doesn’t know what stage a project is in. It can tell you how much time was spent, but not whether you’re on track against a fixed-fee agreement or a percentage-of-construction-cost structure. It creates invoices, but only based on hourly rates.

So you end up with Harvest for time, Asana or Monday for project management, Dropbox for documents, email for client communication, and a spreadsheet to tie it all together. Each tool is good at its job, but the connections between them are manual and fragile.

Setout brings all of these together in a single platform designed for architecture practices. Time tracking is built in — and it’s connected to project stages, deliverables, and fee structures. When you log time against a deliverable, Setout knows how that affects the stage budget, the overall project budget, and the team’s utilisation.

If Harvest is working well for you and time tracking is your main concern, it’s a genuinely excellent tool. But if you’re tired of juggling multiple systems and want time tracking that lives inside your project management, Setout is the integrated alternative.