Open to Work

Jake Gandara

Builder, Marketer, & Operator

Oklahoma City, OK · jake@jakegandara.com · +1-918-577-8827 · LinkedIn · jakegandara.com · GitHub

Summary

I turn a clear outcome into a plan, reverse engineer the steps, and then build the systems that do the work. For eight years I've been inside digital businesses running paid acquisition, building products, designing marketing systems, leading operations, and shipping AI workflows that replace what used to take a team. If you need someone who can take full ownership of a revenue or automation objective and make it real, that is the job I do.

What I Bring

AI & Automation

Production pipelines, not demos. n8n, LLMs, APIs, and custom workflows that replace manual work at scale.

Paid Acquisition

$220K+ Meta ad spend managed. Direct-response creative, funnel build-out, and full-path revenue tracking.

Marketing Systems

Funnels, email sequences, affiliate programs, subscription backends, and the analytics layer on top of all of it.

Revenue & Sales

Built the full commercial stack: product, offer, acquisition, conversion, and retention. I understand the whole path.

Operations

SOPs, team building, and operational systems that scale without adding headcount or depending on any one person.

Product & Offers

Digital products, physical goods, subscriptions, and bundles, built, launched, and operated from zero.

Experience

Pulpit Engine

2026 – Present

Founder

Building an open source AI tool for pastors and churches that turns sermon recordings into scheduled social media content, fully automated, end to end.
Designed and built the full pipeline: transcription via AssemblyAI, clip selection and caption writing via Claude, video rendering on Railway, automated posting via the Facebook Pages API.
Built production automation systems using n8n, LLMs, FFmpeg, Submagic, Google Drive, SendGrid, and Slack; no human in the loop after the recording is uploaded.
Sole operator, engineer, and product designer. Took the concept from idea to live pipeline without a team.

American Recipes Association

Sep 2024 – Apr 2026

Founder | Marketing, AI, & Operations

Built and operated a D2C subscription business end to end: product, acquisition, fulfillment, retention, and operations. No team, no agency, no outside help.
$738K+ in Shopify sales across 39,500+ orders. 699 active monthly subscribers at wind-down, representing $25K+ monthly recurring revenue.
Managed $220K+ in Meta ad spend: 6M impressions, 288K link clicks, 12,247 tracked purchases at an average $17.99 cost per purchase.
Built a multi-step ClickFunnels acquisition path: lead magnet, shipping offer, order bumps, OTOs, continuity subscription, and upsell flows, growing to 70K+ contacts.
Owned copy, creative strategy, funnel optimization, offer testing, email marketing, and day-to-day revenue operations from launch through wind-down.

JKW Enterprises / Patriot Publications

Feb 2018 – Sep 2024

Marketing Manager & Digital Marketing Specialist

Built the e-commerce department from scratch inside a $10M+ revenue digital publishing company, no blueprint, no team handed to me.
Designed and launched 500+ sales funnels for direct-response campaigns, product offers, and customer acquisition.
Forecasted and sourced $3M+ in products: coordinating suppliers, timelines, fulfillment, and campaign integration.
Recruited and supported affiliates who generated $2.5M+ in revenue since 2019.
Hired and trained 6 employees; built the SOPs, video trainings, and task systems that ran without me being in the loop on every decision.

By the Numbers

$738K+ Shopify revenue, one business

$220K+ Meta ad spend managed

$10M+ Revenue operation built inside

500+ Sales funnels built

$2.5M+ Affiliate revenue generated

70K+ Email/funnel contacts built

Skills

AI & Automation

Claude Code Codex ChatGPT n8n LLM Workflows AssemblyAI FFmpeg Railway Supabase

Marketing & Sales

Meta Ads ClickFunnels Direct Response Email Marketing Affiliate Programs Klaviyo

Commerce & Ops

Shopify Stripe SendGrid Facebook Pages API Google Drive Slack GitHub