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Simply Discover

On your terms.

Customer-hosted software, built by people who believe powerful tools should be clear, explainable and in your control.

Real problems. Practical AI.
People who show their work.

Doug Pecarski Doug PecarskiProduct & engineering Wayne van Ry Wayne van RyArchive & migration Matt Walker Matt WalkerProduct & process Johan Dreyer Johan DreyerGrowth & partnerships Harish Ravichandran Harish RavichandranTechnology & AI
One shared way of building.Your data. Your environment.
The people behind the platform.

Discovery, compliance and data movement.
Built around customer control.

In your environment
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS
  • On premises

01 / Why we build

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.” We believe there is a better way.

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.

We build eDiscovery, compliance supervision (Spot), DSAR and high-scale email archive migration, alongside secure collaboration, signing and delivery. The work stays connected. Your data stays under your control.

What we set out to change

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

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.

02 / What we bring

Decades of experience.
A practical way of thinking.

We’re not “AI-first” because it’s fashionable. We care about what works 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.

03 / The people

Hands-on people.
Shared responsibility.

Leadership and team: the operators, engineers, commercial leaders and domain specialists building the platform.

Doug Pecarski

Doug Pecarski

CEO · Product & Engineering

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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.

  • eDiscovery
  • Compliance (Spot)
  • DSAR
  • Migration at scale
  • Secure message send
  • Large file send
Wayne van Ry

Wayne van Ry

Engineering Lead · Archive & Data Migration

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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.

  • Data migration
  • Archive platforms
  • Data residency
  • Data governance
  • Compliance
  • Customer implementation
Matt Walker

Matt Walker

Co-founder · Build Team

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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.

  • Product
  • Process
  • Engineering
  • Feature delivery
  • Platform experience
  • Long-term product work
Johan Dreyer

Johan Dreyer

Chief Commercial Officer

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Johan Dreyer is Chief Commercial Officer at Simply Discover, leading growth, partnerships and customer engagement across the business. He brings a strong blend of commercial and technical leadership, with a track record of building teams, shaping solutions and delivering services that solve complex customer challenges.

He works closely with customers and partners to bring clarity to complex challenges, build confidence in key decisions, and help turn strategic change into practical progress.

  • Commercial leadership
  • Growth
  • Partnerships
  • Customer engagement
  • Team building
  • Service delivery
Harish Ravichandran

Harish Ravichandran

Co-Founder & Head of Technology • Engineering

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Harish is the Head of Technology at Simply Discover, bringing a deep passion for bleeding edge technology. With expertise in hardware engineering — from building GPU clusters long before they became the backbone of modern AI — he brings a rare, ground-up understanding of the infrastructure that powers today's intelligent systems.

At Simply Discover, Harish drives the company's cloud infrastructure and AI strategy. From institutional investors managing billions in AUM to small non-profits, he works closely with clients to understand their challenges first-hand, ensuring solutions are shaped by real-world needs. Central to his work is Simply Discover's core tenet: clients should own their data, especially in a world with AI. This principle underpins every infrastructure and architecture decision he and Simply Discover makes.

  • Cloud infrastructure
  • AI strategy
  • Hardware engineering
  • GPU clusters
  • Data ownership
  • Solution architecture

04 / What drives us

Principles that
shape the product.

  1. 01

    Radical Transparency

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

  2. 02

    Simplicity First

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

  3. 03

    Data Sovereignty

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

  4. 04

    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, Simply Discover

  • AI-firstArchitecture
  • ExplainableEvidence
  • ZeroBS tolerance

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