"It's Like a Wingman": The Sales Intelligence Tool Closing the Gap Between Your Worst and Best Reps | Jay Ku, Founder of HeyGreenlight

"It's Like a Wingman": The Sales Intelligence Tool Closing the Gap Between Your Worst and Best Reps | Jay Ku, Founder of HeyGreenlight

March 3, 2026 · 21 min

About this episode

Jay Ku discusses how Hey Greenlight uses data to enhance sales strategies and improve performance among sales reps.

What if your newest salesperson could perform like your best one every single time? That's not a hypothetical. That's what Jay Ku, founder and CEO of Hey Greenlight, is actually building. And after sitting down with him at NADA, I have to be honest with you, this one stuck with me. Jay spent years at TrueCar meeting with people representing thousands of dealerships, and he kept running into the same two problems. Salespeople had no idea who their leads actually were beyond a name and a phone number. And turnover was burning through training budgets faster than anyone could keep up. So instead of complaining about it, he built something. In this episode we get into how Hey Greenlight pulls 25 plus data points on incoming leads income, credit, garage data — and uses that to build a personalized sales strategy for each one. We're talking about what to text, what to say on the phone, when to call, and even something as specific as which side of the lot to park the car on so the paint catches the afternoon sun just right when the customer shows up. We also get into the AI conversation and I'll be straight with you, I pushed on this because I didn't want to just nod along and confirm…

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