From the Dawn of the Internet to the Age of AI

Fifty-six days before celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary, Ted Church still smiles when he tells the story of how he met his wife. It was 1975. He had just placed a deposit on his first home and needed a VA mortgage. A local realtor recommended a mortgage company and scheduled an appointment.

When Ted arrived, a young woman in the office caught his attention. She was assigned to process his loan application. Over the next several weeks, while paperwork moved through the system, conversations drifted beyond mortgages and interest rates. After the loan closed, Ted no longer had any reason to call. He called anyway and asked her to lunch. She declined his first few invitations. Persistence eventually prevailed.

A little more than a year later, they were married. Neither knew it at the time, but they were beginning a partnership that would survive business failures, entrepreneurial risks, cancer, a traumatic brain injury, and five decades of life’s unpredictability.

A Partnership Built Through Work and Risk

The marriage also shaped Ted’s professional future. When a mortgage broker position opened at her company, she encouraged him to apply. He got the job. That opportunity launched a career path that eventually led the couple to purchase the very office where they worked.

When the company announced plans to close, both husband and wife faced unemployment. Rather than accepting the decision, they decided to buy the office themselves. Within weeks, they became business owners. Together they worked to complete existing loans, serve customers, and generate new business. They succeeded.

That success eventually led to another opportunity: the title company that would later inspire Ted’s first major software innovation.

Building Software Before Software Was Easy

As the years passed, the family grew. Four children arrived. While Ted pursued business opportunities, designed software, launched companies, and worked long hours, his wife managed the equally important responsibilities at home.

When Ted developed software for the title company, his schedule became relentless. He often left home in the morning and returned in the early hours of the next day. Every night when he returned home, she was there. Usually with something to eat. Always with encouragement.

The Hardest Chapters

Years later, life presented far greater challenges than long workdays. Around the couple’s thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, Ted received devastating news: Stage Four tongue cancer.

The treatment plan was aggressive. Surgeons would remove roughly half of his tongue, remove affected lymph nodes, and reconstruct portions of his tongue and arm using tissue grafts. There was no guarantee he would speak normally again. For a man who made part of his living speaking to couples during wedding ceremonies, the possibility was terrifying.

His wife never wavered. “You’re going to be fine,” she told him.

The surgery was successful. Recovery was difficult. Speech became a challenge. Eating became a challenge. Simple conversations became a challenge. Every day she helped. She prepared food he could swallow, worked patiently to understand difficult words, attended appointments, and encouraged him through rehabilitation.

During speech therapy, a therapist asked Ted what he hoped to achieve. His answer surprised her.

“I want to go back to performing weddings and baptisms. And I want to sing to my wife in Italian.”

He did not speak Italian. As it happened, his therapist did. For the next two years, Ted worked toward that goal.

One evening while dining with family and friends, he quietly approached a musician performing nearby. The entertainer knew the song Il Mondo. Ted asked to sing. Standing before a room filled with strangers, he sang to his wife in Italian.

Years later, he remembers that moment clearly. The audience disappeared. The restaurant disappeared. The noise disappeared.

“I only saw my wife.”

Why SiteCheck Pro Exists

Today, as Ted and his wife approach their fiftieth wedding anniversary, he continues building. The latest chapter is SiteCheck Pro, a platform created after years of frustration with website auditing services that identified problems but offered little practical help solving them.

SiteCheck Pro was built around a simple standard: identify what matters, repair only what can be safely improved, and verify the result. That philosophy reflects decades of experience in business, technology, and service.

At an age when many people have long since retired, Ted continues pursuing new ideas. But when asked about the accomplishments he values most, the answer is not software, technology, or business. It is the partnership that made all of those things possible.

The title company. The early internet years. The hotel career. The recovery from cancer. The recovery from a traumatic brain injury. The weddings. The children. The grandchildren. The next adventure.

Every chapter shares one constant: a woman who finally agreed to lunch.