Case Study: CCD Innovation achieves clearer project planning and pricing accuracy with Harvest

Harvest + food innovation = a winning recipe

CCD Innovation, a food innovation and product development agency, needed a time tracking tool to better understand how long projects and tasks actually took so they could verify pricing, improve budgeting, and manage cross-functional work more effectively. The company turned to Harvest to replace gut feelings with real operational data and bring clarity to its fee-based project planning.

Using Harvest, CCD Innovation tracked time by department and project, benchmarked current work against past jobs, and tested whether its pricing estimates were accurate. The result was better budgeting, clearer definitions of complex projects, stronger project management, and more confident client conversations—helping the team identify the minimum project size aligned with financial goals and support more realistic planning.

CCD Innovation

Ruth Halpern

CEO