An Idea Harvest™ turns what your people know into fixes you can act on
Idea Harvest™ is Harvest Earnings' proprietary process for pulling the operational problems and improvements your employees see out into the open, and turning them into approved fixes leadership can act on. Companies run it as a structured, company-wide effort, because the knowledge to fix a business is usually already inside it, yet what people know stays stuck where it starts and rarely reaches anyone who can act on it.
run inside Fortune 500 companies
every level of the org chart
surfaced per engagement
Starting with the problems people already see unlocks thousands of ideas
The process works by asking employees what gets in the way of their work, what keeps going wrong, and what they would change. That produces better answers than simply asking, “Do you have any ideas?”
From there, The full process takes about 100 days.
Generate
Hear from people across teams, roles, and locations. Gather the problems they see and the fixes they would suggest. This is the first stage, and the one Tell Jules now runs.
Evaluate
Validate each idea and put real numbers to it. Check what they would save or earn, what they would take to implement, and which teams they affect.
Decide
Leadership reviews the ideas that clear the bar and chooses which ones to put into action.
≈ 100 days, first conversation to decision
For companies where leaders can no longer hear everything themselves
Harvest Earnings has run Idea Harvest™ inside Fortune 500 companies, but it can also make sense for companies with around 50 people.
The real test is how much distance exists between leadership and the people doing the work.
As companies grow, useful knowledge gets spread across departments, locations, shifts, and layers of management. The employee who knows why something keeps going wrong may never speak with the person who can fix it.
Idea Harvest™ gives leaders a way to hear from those people at scale.
Better operations can improve more than one thing at once
A full Idea Harvest™ looks for ideas that reduce cost, increase revenue, and improve the customer experience.
Reduce costs
Cutting costs the usual way often means heavier workloads and a worse customer experience.
An Idea Harvest™ finds the smarter alternatives, eliminating unnecessary work, simplifying processes, and matching the right tasks to the right people, so cost comes down while the company gets stronger.
Increase revenue
Employees also see smaller opportunities that large strategic projects can miss: broken handoffs, missed sales opportunities, renewal problems, and friction that causes customers to leave.
One idea may be small, but hundreds of them can add up quickly.
Improve the customer experience
When customers keep running into the same problem, someone inside the company often knows where it starts.
Idea Harvest™ helps find that source so the company can fix the cause instead of repeatedly dealing with the result.
EVERY APPROVED IDEA HAS TO PASS FIVE TESTS:
The people closest to the work usually know what needs fixing
Harvest Earnings’ founders built Idea Harvest™ around a simple observation: the people working inside a company often understand its problems better than anyone looking in from the outside.
They see where processes break, where customers struggle, where time gets wasted, and where simple changes could make a difference.
As Jeremy Eden, Co-CEO of Harvest Earnings and Tell Jules, puts it:
The people who really know how to improve a company are the ones already working inside it, not the experts brought in to analyze them.
Jeremy Eden, Co-CEO, Harvest Earnings & Tell Jules
Everything starts with hearing from employees
Before a company can evaluate or approve an idea, it has to find it.
For decades, Harvest Earnings did that by walking the floor, talking with employees, and running sessions across teams and locations.
Those conversations formed the first stage of every Idea Harvest™.
Today, Tell Jules can run that stage much faster and at scale.
Tell Jules runs that first stage through one-on-one conversations
Tell Jules is a conversational AI built by the same team behind Idea Harvest™.
It talks with employees one at a time and asks about the problems they see in their work. Then it follows up to understand what is happening, how often, what it affects, and how the employee would fix it.
As the conversations happen, Tell Jules organizes the answers into a structured report of problems, patterns, and suggested fixes.
That means a process that once took weeks of in-person work can now happen in days.
Harvest Earnings uses Tell Jules inside its own Idea Harvest™ engagements. Companies can also use it on its own to run the first stage themselves.
Find out what your company already knows
Start with one team of 25 to 50 employees. The trial is free, there is nothing to install, and there is no contract.