Supervisible vs Harvest Forecast: Capacity and Margins Without Timesheets
Harvest Forecast is a simple, cheap scheduler that gets its numbers from Harvest timesheets, billed separately. Supervisible plans the week and shows margin from planned hours, for one flat price. Here's the honest comparison.
10-50 person agency, capacity + margin in one tool, no timesheets, flat price
Supervisible →Cheapest simple schedule, day-level planning, team already on Harvest
Harvest Forecast →Harvest Forecast is the scheduler half of a two-product setup. Forecast shows who's booked where. Harvest tracks the time, sends the invoices, and (on its Enterprise plan) reports profitability. Together they work well, if your team logs time and you're fine with two bills.
If either of those isn't true, the comparison gets interesting. Here's how they stack up, including where Forecast wins.
Supervisible vs Harvest Forecast at a glance
| Supervisible | Harvest Forecast | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | 10-50 person agencies | Teams of any size, especially those already using Harvest |
| Price | $129/mo or $1,188/yr, flat | $5 per person/mo billed annually, $6.25 monthly |
| Who counts | No per-seat fees | Everyone scheduled, plus the people doing the scheduling |
| Margins and profitability | Projected margin from planned hours x cost rates | Via Harvest (billed separately); profitability reporting on Harvest Enterprise |
| Timesheets needed? | No | For estimates vs actuals and project health, yes (Harvest) |
| Planning unit | Weekly hours per person per project | Day, week or month |
| Time off and capacity | Approved leave reduces available hours automatically | Time off and non-work days managed in the schedule |
| Exports | Public API | CSV export of summaries |
| Slack | Approvals, Monday digest DM, OOO channel | Not covered on Forecast's pricing or features pages |
| How to evaluate | Request a demo | Free 30-day trial, no credit card |
Harvest Forecast and Harvest details from getharvest.com pricing and feature pages, checked October 9, 2026.
What's the core difference between Supervisible and Harvest Forecast?
Forecast is a scheduler that gets its money view from somewhere else: Harvest's timesheets and reports. Supervisible puts the schedule and the money view in one place, and builds margin from the plan itself (planned hours times cost rates), so it works even when nobody tracks time.
If your agency already lives in Harvest and people log hours every day, Forecast slots in neatly. If your team doesn't track time, Forecast shows you the schedule but not whether the schedule makes money.
Who should pick Harvest Forecast?
Harvest Forecast is the better choice if:
- You just need a cheap, simple schedule. At $5 per person per month billed annually, Forecast on its own costs less than Supervisible for any team under about 20 people.
- You plan by the day. Forecast plans by day, week or month. Supervisible only plans by the week.
- You already track time and invoice in Harvest. Forecast connects to Harvest to show estimates vs actuals and project health with no extra setup.
- You want CSV exports. Forecast exports summaries to CSV for your own analysis. Supervisible doesn't offer CSV export today.
- You want to try it today. Forecast has a free 30-day trial with no credit card. Supervisible is demo-only right now.
Who should pick Supervisible?
Supervisible is the better choice if you run a 10-50 person agency and:
- You want margins without timesheets. Supervisible projects each project's margin from planned hours times cost rates. Actual hours are optional.
- You'd rather pay for one tool. No second product, no per-seat fees, no usage-based charges. $129 a month or $1,188 a year.
- You want leave to flow into capacity. Approve time off in Supervisible or from Slack, and that person's available hours drop for those weeks. Full-day leave also creates an out-of-office event in their Google Calendar.
- You live in Slack. Approve time off and project-hour requests in Slack, get a Monday digest DM, and post OOO updates to a channel.
- You want answers from an AI assistant. Supervisible's MCP server lets authorized users ask Claude "who's free next week?" with their own permissions.
At Meaningful we found that the tool that tells you who's busy and the spreadsheet that tells you whether that work is profitable drift apart within a week. Putting both in one place, built on the plan rather than timesheets, is why Supervisible exists.
How much do Supervisible and Harvest Forecast cost for a 15- and 30-person agency?
Forecast alone is cheaper than Supervisible. The comparison changes once you add the Harvest seats that Forecast relies on for actuals and profitability.
| Team size | Supervisible | Forecast only | Forecast + Harvest Teams | Forecast + Harvest Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 people, monthly | $129/mo | $93.75/mo | $258.75/mo | $356.25/mo |
| 15 people, annual | $1,188/yr ($99/mo) | $900/yr ($75/mo) | $2,520/yr ($210/mo) | $3,420/yr ($285/mo) |
| 30 people, monthly | $129/mo | $187.50/mo | $517.50/mo | $712.50/mo |
| 30 people, annual | $1,188/yr ($99/mo) | $1,800/yr ($150/mo) | $5,040/yr ($420/mo) | $6,840/yr ($570/mo) |
Forecast: $5 per person per month annually, $6.25 monthly. Harvest Teams: $9 per seat annually, $11 monthly. Harvest Enterprise (lists profitability reporting): $14 annually, $17.50 monthly. Prices from getharvest.com, checked October 9, 2026. Assumes everyone is scheduled and tracks time. Harvest also bills additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks by usage, which isn't included here.
Honestly, if all you need is a schedule, Forecast at 15 people ($900 a year) beats Supervisible ($1,188). But if you want to know whether projects make money, you're comparing Supervisible with Forecast plus Harvest: $2,520 to $3,420 a year at 15 people, and $5,040 to $6,840 at 30.
Does Supervisible need timesheets to show margins?
No. Supervisible calculates projected margin from each person's planned weekly hours multiplied by their cost rate, compared with project revenue. You can record actual hours and compare them with the plan, but margins don't depend on them.
Forecast's estimates-vs-actuals view comes from connecting Harvest's tracked time. That's accurate when everyone logs hours. When they don't, it's a gap you only notice at month-end.
What can't Supervisible do that Harvest Forecast can?
Supervisible doesn't plan by the day, doesn't export to CSV, doesn't track time or send invoices, and doesn't offer a self-serve trial. It also won't automatically reschedule work when someone's leave is approved: the leave reduces their capacity, and you move the work. If those matter more than margins in one place, pick Forecast.
Is Supervisible a good Harvest Forecast alternative for agencies?
Yes, if you're a 10-50 person agency that wants capacity and margin in one tool without timesheets or two subscriptions. No, if you only need an inexpensive schedule and your team already tracks time in Harvest. For a wider view of capacity tools, read Supervisible vs Float vs Runn and our list of capacity planning tools for agencies.
Related reading: how to track billable hours, agency capacity planning, and how the vacation tracker feeds capacity.
See your team's capacity and margin in one view. Supervisible is built by agency operators at Meaningful. We use it to plan our own team and see project margins without timesheets. One flat price for the whole agency. Request a demo →
Frequently asked questions
If you want capacity planning and project margins in one tool without relying on timesheets, Supervisible is a good Harvest Forecast alternative for 10-50 person agencies. It costs a flat $129 a month or $1,188 a year. If you only need a simple, low-cost schedule and already track time in Harvest, Forecast remains a solid choice.
On its own, yes. Forecast costs $5 per person per month billed annually or $6.25 monthly, so 15 people cost $75-94 a month and 30 people $150-188. But Forecast's project health and estimates-vs-actuals views need Harvest time tracking, billed separately from $9 per seat per month. Forecast plus Harvest Teams for 30 people costs about $420 a month billed annually, against Supervisible's $129.
No. Harvest's pricing page says Harvest and Forecast are currently billed separately. Harvest's Teams and Enterprise plans also bill additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks based on usage. Supervisible is one plan at $129 a month or $1,188 a year, with no per-seat fees.
Forecast schedules people and connects to Harvest to compare scheduled time with tracked time. Margin and profitability reporting come from Harvest, where Harvest's pricing page lists profitability reporting on the Enterprise plan. Supervisible projects margin from planned hours multiplied by cost rates, without timesheets.
No. Supervisible plans in weekly hours per person per project. Harvest Forecast lets you plan by day, week or month. If your team needs a day-by-day schedule, Forecast fits better.
Harvest Forecast offers a free 30-day trial with no credit card. Supervisible doesn't offer self-serve signup today. Request a demo at supervisible.com/demo and the team will walk you through it.
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