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Jake Marfoglia.

Signal Architect. Systems strategist. Problem solver for founders and operators at 7-8 figures who need someone who can see the whole board.

Jake Marfoglia

I grew up in Buffalo watching my parents run a small business out of a blue-collar household. They figured things out. They kept moving when times were tight. That shaped everything about how I work.

I launched my first business at 21. Sold a physical product company at 27. Built a direct response agency managing eight figures in ad spend across 100+ brands. Did a stint at Facebook — left because the machine moved too slow. Scaled Prime Bites to $3M/month in 90 days as CMO. Built multiple SaaS tools, advise two startups, and co-founded an IT firm serving Western New York.

The thread across all of it: I find the one thing that actually matters, cut everything else away, and build the system around it.

If you're tired of guessing, spending on the wrong things, and getting advice from people who've never built anything — we should talk.

The Path

15+ Years of Building

2011
Launched first business at 21. Started in the trenches — selling physical products, learning what works by doing it wrong first.
2017
Sold first company at 27. Proved a physical product business could be built from zero to acquisition. Learned that the system matters more than the product.
2018
Built a direct response agency. Managed eight figures in ad spend across 100+ brands. Saw the Vendor Trap from the inside — and understood why the model was broken.
2019
Joined Facebook (Meta). Worked inside the machine. Understood how the algorithms and incentive structures actually work. Left because the pace was too slow.
2020
CMO at Prime Bites. Scaled to $3M/month in 90 days. Built the attention engine, the acquisition system, and the retention loop. Proved that systems beat tactics.
2021
Co-founded 360 Business Solutions. IT services firm serving Western New York. Built the operational backbone from day one using systems architecture principles.
2023
Built MagicSet and Signal House. Two SaaS products: B2B email marketing infrastructure and customer intelligence / CX as a service. Designed as compounding systems, not features.
Now
Signal Architect. Working directly with 7-8 figure founders — finding the real constraint, designing the system, building alongside the team. Not a vendor. Not a consultant. A problem solver.
15+
Years Building Systems
1B+
Ad Impressions Generated
500K+
Leads Generated
100+
Brands Served
How I Think

Five Principles

Signal Over Noise. Most business problems aren't complicated — they're obscured by noise. Bad advice, misaligned incentives, vanity metrics, inherited assumptions. Strip it all away and the answer is usually obvious.

First Principles Thinking. What is actually true about this customer, this offer, this market? Build only from what holds up under pressure, not what everyone else is doing.

Constraint Theory. Every system has one bottleneck that determines throughput. Find it. Fix it. Everything else is noise until that constraint is resolved. One unlock beats ten optimizations.

Systems Architecture. Design before building. Org, tech stack, marketing engine, data flows — everything as an interconnected system. No isolated tactics. Every piece compounds with every other piece.

Attention as a Compounding Asset. Attention isn't a campaign. It's an asset that compounds when your offer, distribution, and customer intelligence are wired into one machine. Build it once, let it run.

Things I've Built

Companies & Ventures

Co-founder
IT services firm serving Western New York. Built with systems architecture principles from day one.
Founder
B2B email marketing SaaS. Designed as compounding infrastructure for outbound at scale.
Co-founder
Customer Intelligence / CX as a Service. Turning customer data into a compounding strategic asset.
Board / Advisor
AI for ecommerce. Strategic advisory on systems design and growth architecture.
Board / Advisor
Telematics startup. Advisory on product-market fit and go-to-market systems.
Creative
Electronic music production. The creative outlet where systems thinking meets sound design.
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