Digital Systems Rescue Clarity before automation.

Not your average digital cleanup

I untangle the digital mess behind established small businesses.

Overloaded inboxes. Scattered files. Canva chaos. Forgotten subscriptions. Content libraries nobody can find anything in.

I bring an operations-trained brain to the cleanup — with a preservation-first approach and zero cowboy deleting.

Tell me where the mess lives See what I rescue
Maria Simard smiling in a dark hoodie
52,000+emails reviewed
$2,000+unnecessary subscriptions uncovered
100,000+contact-list records cleaned
Hundredsof Canva assets organized

The work

What I rescue

I help make years of digital buildup understandable, usable, and safer to change.

01

Inbox & Email Systems

Large inboxes, buried messages, bad filtering, spam-folder surprises, outdated subscriptions, and years of accumulated email clutter.

02

Files & Drives

Google Drive, Dropbox, shared folders, naming messes, duplicates, old versions, and documents nobody can find when they need them.

03

Canva & Content Libraries

Designs, templates, exports, campaign assets, and abandoned drafts organized into something people can actually reuse.

04

Subscriptions & Tool Sprawl

Software nobody remembers buying, overlapping tools, stale accounts, and recurring expenses quietly draining money.

05

Digital Asset Cleanup

Documents, content, templates, folders, and knowledge that need structure without losing what matters.

06

Automation Readiness

Before adding automation, I help determine what is actually worth automating — and what needs simplifying first.

The difference

Cleanup is the task. Judgment is the value.

I am not here to make your folders look prettier. I look at digital environments as business systems.

Is this actually a duplicate?

Is this still in use?

Is this costing money?

Is this asset being recreated because nobody can find the original?

Is something valuable buried in spam or an old folder?

Does this process even deserve to be automated?

The goal is not “inbox zero.”

The goal is a digital environment you can actually trust.

Preservation first

How I work

Your live environment stays intact while the replacement structure is mapped and built whenever possible.

  1. 1
    Audit

    I look at what is there before changing anything.

  2. 2
    Map

    I identify what is current, duplicated, outdated, buried, costly, or unclear.

  3. 3
    Build

    I create the new structure separately whenever possible.

  4. 4
    Review

    You approve meaningful changes before anything destructive happens.

  5. 5
    Migrate

    The new system is put into place carefully.

  6. 6
    Handoff

    You get a cleaner system and a clear explanation of how it works.

No cowboy deleting.

Files, subscriptions, and information do not disappear just because they look unnecessary.

Source first.

Important source environments stay preserved while changes are evaluated.

Human-reviewed.

AI can help with volume. Final judgment stays human.

Past client environment

One digital ecosystem. A lot hiding inside it.

For one past client alone, the work crossed multiple systems — not just one isolated cleanup task.

  • Reviewed more than 52,000 emails
  • Identified roughly $2,000 in unnecessary software subscriptions
  • Recovered legitimate leads from spam that later became engagements
  • Cleaned email lists with more than 100,000 contacts
  • Organized a Canva library with hundreds of designs and templates

That is the difference between making things tidy and understanding what the mess is actually costing you.

Clarity before automation

AI helps with the heavy lifting. Judgment stays human.

I use AI where it makes sense — for repetitive analysis, categorization, comparison, summarization, and pattern detection.

But AI does not decide what gets deleted, archived, merged, or preserved.

First we make sense of the seedlings. Then we decide whether anything needs an irrigation system.

About Maria

I became the person people handed the tangled stuff to.

I spent more than a decade working across founder support, operations, project-based work, administration, marketing support, systems, and implementation.

Over time, the giant inbox, the scattered files, the Canva account nobody wanted to touch, and the system that had grown around years of work kept landing in front of me.

In September 2026, I formalized that work into Digital Systems Rescue.

I am not offering operations management or project management. I bring that brain to the mess.

I notice patterns, ask useful questions, and prefer preserving information over making fast irreversible decisions.

Also: I genuinely like untangling this stuff.

Got a digital junk drawer?

You do not have to organize it before you give it to me.

That is literally what I am here for.

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