We are the future of data discovery and movement — on your terms

AI-first architecture. Zero tolerance for BS. One mission: make finding the truth as simple as asking a question.

Simply Discover is a customer-hosted platform for eDiscovery, compliance supervision (Spot), DSAR, and high-scale email archive migration. We deploy into your Azure environment, so your data stays under your control with explainable evidence and audit-ready workflows.

We’re not trying to “disrupt legal tech” with buzzwords. We’re building tools that work in the real world at scale, under scrutiny, and without locking you into someone else’s cloud.

Built to solve real problems

We started Simply Discover with a simple idea: make complex discovery, compliance, and migration work feel obvious — and keep customers in control of their own data.

Too many platforms push sensitive corporate information into black-box SaaS, then hide behind “trust the model” and “talk to our consultants.” That’s not modern. That’s a business model.

We built differently: customer-hosted deployments, clear evidence, defensible audit trails, and interfaces that don’t require a certification course. Powerful doesn’t have to mean painful.

The Old Way

  • AI bolted onto legacy systems
  • Data locked in vendor clouds
  • Opaque scoring and decision making
  • Complex, bloated interfaces
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The Simply Discover Way

  • AI-first architecture
  • Your data, your environment
  • Explainable evidence and audit trails
  • Intuitive, focused design
Sometimes the right people have to build the change they want to see. We have, and that change is happening now.

Built on decades of deep technical expertise

We’re not “AI-first” because it’s fashionable. We’re AI-first because it’s the only sane way to do this at scale as long as it’s explainable, auditable, and actually useful.

AI Consultants

We’ve architected AI systems for complex enterprise environments. We care about production reality: latency, cost, auditability, and failure modes.

Data Migration Engineers

Petabytes moved at scale, with integrity verified using cryptographic checksums and audit-ready chain of custody. We don’t do “best effort” migrations — we do measurable, verifiable outcomes.

Security Specialists

Security isn’t a feature — it’s the foundation. Customer-hosted deployment, least privilege, audit trails, and defensive defaults. If a system can’t stand up to scrutiny, it doesn’t ship.

Engineering Leaders

We’ve led teams at scale and shipped systems that have to work on Monday morning — not just in a demo. Reliability, clarity, and speed matter.

We’re building the anti-status-quo toolkit

We’re honest about what AI can and can’t do. We show our work. We don’t hide behind jargon. If the answer isn’t defensible, it doesn’t belong in the product.

We’re not here to lock you in, we’re here to give you control, speed, and clarity.

Leadership & Team

The people building the platform — operators, engineers, and domain specialists.

Doug Pecarski

CEO • Product & Engineering

Doug Pecarski is the CEO of Simply Discover, bringing a long-standing career in software engineering and product leadership to the design of platforms for eDiscovery, compliance, DSAR, and high-volume data migration. With deep experience building and operating large-scale data systems, Doug works hands-on with teams and customers to solve complex information challenges—creating software that is robust, auditable, and designed to run securely within customer environments.

His focus is on turning complex compliance and investigative workflows into software that is simple, fast, and intuitive, and on applying practical AI in ways that deliver real, defensible governance outcomes.

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Wayne van Ry

Engineering Lead • Archive & Data Migration

Wayne is an Engineering Lead at Simply Discover, bringing over 20 years of software engineering experience across government, finance, security, and archive sectors to the design and delivery of data migration and archive solutions.

He brings deep expertise in data residency, migration, and ownership, leading the Archive Product and guiding customer implementations. In doing so, he helps organisations understand, own, and manage their data simply. His focus is on enabling customers to leverage their information in near real time while maintaining full compliance with data sovereignty and regulatory requirements.

His approach to complex data challenges mirrors his passion for sailing: prepare, plan, execute, and monitor, always ready to adapt when external factors shift, with the preparation to handle whatever comes.

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Matt Walker

Co-founder • Build Team

Matt Walker is a co-founder and member of the build team at Simply Discover.

Matt sits at the interface between product, process, and engineering. As with everyone on the team, he owns feature delivery from concept through to code.

When he is not building something with an immediate need, he works on longer-term projects that will transform the experience and capabilities of the platform.

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What drives us

Radical Transparency

Show your work. Explain the evidence. No black boxes. No “trust us” algorithms.

Simplicity First

If it takes more than 30 minutes to learn, we’ve failed. Powerful doesn’t have to mean complicated.

Data Sovereignty

Your data stays in your environment. Customer-controlled access. No vendor cloud lock-in.

Real Problems

Build for real users, not demo stages. Solve real pain, not imaginary edge cases.

Our mission is simple

“Make finding the truth as natural as asking a question. Strip away the complexity, the training manuals, the consultant armies. Just you, your data, and the answers you need.”
— Doug Pecarski, CEO
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