Humble Beginnings

I never set out to start another tech company.

In fact, I was done with tech after a failed startup attempt three years ago. I traded my laptop for a shovel and my inbox for a pen and paper, determined to spend my days building something tangible — a small organic farm.

Running that farm taught me plenty about soil and seasons, but it also reintroduced me to an old frustration: keeping track of data.

I managed everything in Google Sheets — expenses, sales, customers, harvest logs. It worked, but barely. Entering data on my phone was clunky and tedious, especially with dirt-crusted hands and a dozen other tasks competing for attention.

Then one day, while helping a friend on her chicken farm, a simple thought crossed my mind:

What if I could just text my data to my sheet?

That seed of an idea (pun intended) stuck with me for weeks. Then, after a minor knee injury left me off my feet for a few days, I opened my laptop again — the same one I thought I’d left behind — and began coding the first version of what would become Harmonize.

The vision was straightforward: data tracking should be as simple as sending a text. You text your data, and Harmonize takes care of the rest.

Today, that idea still drives everything I’m building. Harmonize was born out of the messiness of real life — from dirt under my nails and spreadsheets on my phone — and I hope it helps others bring more harmony to the way they capture and grow their own work.

(And yes, I still manage the farm — you can check it out here.)