Founders Everywhere: Daniel Lord-Doyle
Daniel Lord-Doyle is the co-founder & CEO of Mary Technology, providing AI-powered document triage and chronologies for lawyers.
Welcome to Founders Everywhere, where we highlight the incredible people behind the companies we’ve backed at Everywhere Ventures, a global pre-seed fund supported by a community of 500 founders and operators.
Every law firm needs a way to manage facts efficiently. Litigation is complex, and critical information is often buried in thousands of documents, emails, and old records. If you’ve ever watched a lawyer show, you’ve probably seen those towering brown boxes stuffed with files, a mountain of information that takes days, even weeks, to sift through. In real life, those piles are often just docs, but it doesn’t make it any less tedious, overwhelming, or time-consuming. Mary Technology helps law firms extract, verify, and organise these facts into a clear, traceable “fact database.” They automatically generate world-class chronologies, which are structured timelines of events that clearly show what happened, when, and who was involved. By reducing the time lawyers spend on manual review, Mary enables firms to handle more cases, improve client service, and let lawyers focus on winning cases, not digging through paperwork.
The idea for Mary Technology originated with Rowan McNamee, a lawyer frustrated by the “fact chaos” that slows down legal work. Rowan teamed up with Harry Raworth, who leads sales and marketing, to put together a prototype. After gaining interest from law firms, they brought on Luke Abagi as the Head of Product and Daniel Lord-Doyle, bringing experience in software engineering, sales, and a passion for using AI to solve complex problems.
The name honors Rowan’s Aunt Mary, a famously efficient family law barrister. They believe that everyone deserves a “Mary” in their firm.
What’s Mary Technology’s North Star?
We want to make the world’s facts work - to enable greater access to justice by slashing the time lawyers spend on document review, the biggest bottleneck in litigation. By removing this barrier, law firms can serve more people, lawyers can focus on meaningful work, and clients can access justice in some of the hardest moments of their lives.
What makes Mary Technology a “must-have” vs a “nice-to-have”?
Our platform is a must-have for law firms because it transforms the way they handle litigation and dispute resolution. We extract facts buried in large, messy document troves - emails, handwritten notes, old records - then correct, normalise, and organise them into a reviewable, traceable “fact database.” This isn’t about AI guessing answers; it’s about giving lawyers verified facts they can review, verify, and use to construct narratives efficiently. By drastically reducing the time and tedium of manual document review, our platform delivers a faster, cheaper, and more efficient process that creates a win for consumers, law firms, and lawyers alike.
Why will Mary Technology win?
We’re not competing in the “chatGPT for law” race. Instead we’re in the race to become the best at extracting, organising, and presenting verifiable facts from data in a way that gives reviewers true confidence that every document has been read, understood, and distilled. Unlike more generic tools, our platform manages hyper-messy evidence and also integrates with other legal AI tools.
We also have an absolutely world-class team bringing freshness and modernity to legal tech. We’re rebels with a cockroach mentality - resilient, scrappy, and able to survive and thrive in tough conditions. We don’t quit when things get hard; we adapt, persist, and keep moving forward until we win. We love what we’re building and we have fun doing it.
What’s on the horizon for Mary Technology?
We’ve been selected for the Fuse accelerator program at A&O Shearman, the third-largest law firm in the world. Thousands of companies apply, and only a handful are accepted. Of the 18 technologies in their current tech stack, 12 have come through Fuse, highlighting how they determine which tools their lawyers need.
We started in Australia and now we’re now expanding into international markets, with plans to launch in the U.S. next year.
What makes you a unique founder?
I’ve spent significant time both building and selling. I started my career in sales, growing teams and learning firsthand what drives business growth, starting from my early days in a telemarketing agency to leading a sales team at a fast-growing ad tech company. Later, I became a software engineer for almost a decade, learning how to build platforms from the ground up. That combination gives me a perspective that bridges product and market needs, which I think is a real superpower as a founder.
Fun Fact:
I’m an identical twin.
Listen to Andres Glusman with Jenny Fielding on the Venture Everywhere podcast: Do What Works Better. Now on Apple & Spotify. Check out to all our past episodes here!
