About us
Built like a product team.
Driven by iterative growth.
Founded in 2017, Chek provides an alternative to the trap of traditional digital agencies: the cycle of bloated decks, slow change orders, and vanity reports.
We are a technical studio that operates like a dedicated product team. Instead of treating your digital footprint like a collection of static, one-off projects, we sit across the table as partners to build, refine, and scale your digital presence with intention.
“We operate with conviction and iterate with purpose. We make strong, data-backed bets, ship early, and measure what actually drives revenue.”
What Makes Us Different?
Integrated Disciplines
Most agencies split up development, SEO, and automation if they offer them at all. When you partner with Chek, you get each of these service arms along with the hub that connects them. Your site updates, traffic optimizations, and workflow automation all function in tandem as one integrated digital system.
A Partnership Mindset
We are neither blind soldiers nor arm’s-length vendors. Our team stays present, challenges assumptions, and pushes back when necessary, prioritizing iterative progress and tangible deliverables in order to deliver the commercial value your organization deserves.
AI-Accelerated Delivery
Chek is committed to the ethical use and deployment of technology that empowers human creativity, craft, and ingenuity. By carefully integrating modern AI workflows into our full stack development and creative production, we compress timelines without sacrificing precision.
Who is Chek?
Joseph Chekanoff
Founder
Founded Chek and still writes code. Spends his time on the architecture decisions clients have to live with for years.
Josh Sciortino
Operations Director
Owns how the work gets done — staffing, scope and the standards behind both. Keeps an estimate honest before it becomes a promise.
Emily Bragg
Development Manager
Runs the development team and review processes that keep its output consistent. Came up building front ends, and still works in the code.
Hannah Malinowski
Project Manager
Runs the delivery schedule, nurtures partnerships, and coordinates internal timelines. She is the friendly voice you will most often hear from.
Ryan Piechuta
Developer III
Owns the part of a build with no tutorial — the architecture, the integrations, the load-bearing decisions. Asks whether we should be building it at all.
Calvin Griffin
Developer II
Builds client sites end to end, from the design handoff to the last accessibility fix.
Zac Duncan
Developer I
Works across the stack and picks up whatever the build needs next. Already has an eye for the parts that quietly break later.
Cass Inocencio
SEO Specialist
Runs search strategy and the reporting that proves it worked.
Zak Hartzell
Content SEO Specialist
The word person. Handles the content side of search — meets with clients, recommends strategies, and executes on-page work.
Meet the Chek Digital Engine
The work does not stop at launch. Chek’s Digital Engine harnesses organic search optimization, answer engine optimization, and workflow automation to support the functionality of your new site, allowing its value to compound and grow alongside your business.
Our Integrated Media Partner
We build, champion, and support owned properties (your apps and websites). When services fall outside of our core skillset, we only recommend talent we trust. For paid media, email, social, and more, that partner is SnuggleMud. As our deeply integrated media partner, they deliver comprehensive strategy, hands-on testing, and a founder-led execution model that consistently exceeds client expectations.