Not your average digital cleanup

I untangle the digital mess behind established small businesses.

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

I bring an operations-trained brain to the cleanup — with a preservation-first approach, a strong eye for hidden value, and zero cowboy deleting.

Maria Simard smiling in a dark hoodie
72,000+emails reviewed
$5,000+unnecessary subscriptions uncovered
40,000+contact-list records cleaned
Hundredsof Canva assets organized

Start with clarity

The mess you see may not be the real problem.

What looks like an overflowing inbox or a chaotic Drive can also be hiding stale subscriptions, abandoned projects, duplicate assets, broken workflows, buried leads, or important information living in the wrong place.

I inspect first. Then you get a clear picture of what is worth cleaning, preserving, reviving, simplifying — or leaving alone.

What is active? What is stale? What is costing money? What is duplicated? What is valuable but buried? What should not be touched yet?

Findings first. No unnecessary work. No automation for automation's sake.

The work

What I rescue

I work across the digital places small businesses accumulate clutter — from everyday inboxes and drives to creative libraries, CRMs, and backends that have grown hard to trust.

01

Inbox & Email Systems

Large inboxes, buried messages, bad filtering, stale newsletters, spam-folder surprises, outdated subscriptions, and years of accumulated email clutter.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

Designs, templates, exports, Midjourney or AI-generated assets, campaign pieces, and abandoned drafts organized into something people can actually reuse.

04

Subscriptions & Tool Sprawl

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

05

CRMs, Platforms & Backends

GoHighLevel, course platforms, content systems, social accounts, automations, pipelines, tags, and other backends carrying years of old decisions.

06

Automation Readiness

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

The difference

Organization is not the same as resolution.

I am not here to move 8,000 unread emails into 47 folders and call the job done. I look at digital environments as business systems.

Is this actually a duplicate, or a different working version?

Does this information belong here, or should it have a real home?

Is this subscription still earning its keep?

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

Is something valuable buried in spam, archives, or an abandoned 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 72,000 emails
  • Identified roughly $5,000 in unnecessary software subscriptions
  • Recovered legitimate leads from spam that later became engagements
  • Cleaned email lists with more than 40,000 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.

Sometimes the mess is hiding value

Not everything buried needs to be deleted.

Past cleanups have surfaced forgotten files and unfinished work that later became usable course materials and physical products that were completed and shipped.

Old folders can contain abandoned projects, reusable assets, forgotten intellectual property, and work that needs organization — not burial.

Sometimes the right answer is archive it. Sometimes it is delete it. And sometimes the thing collecting digital dust deserves a defibrillator.

Clarity before automation

Creation got faster. Cleanup did not.

AI makes it easier than ever to create: more drafts, more images, more versions, more exports, more experiments, more “we made this six months ago and forgot why.”

Midjourney libraries, Canva assets, AI-generated documents, videos, course materials, prompt variations, and half-finished ideas can accumulate fast.

The question is not simply what can be deleted. It is what is worth keeping, what can be reused, what has already been recreated, and what could still become something valuable.

AI can help me process volume faster. It does not get final authority over your business history.

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, the cluttered backend, 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?

Start with an inspection. Then decide what actually needs rescuing.

You do not have to organize it before you give it to me. That would rather defeat the point.

Tell me where the mess lives