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# Jeff Summerhays

**Headline:** Sales Specialist
**Profession:** Sales Manager
**Location:** United States

## About

Jeff Summerhays is the founder and AI Systems & Product Developer at Neverlost Systems and a Sales Manager at Greenix\. He combines 11 years of sales experience with hands\-on product development, building AI\-assisted systems for complex information and decision environments, including healthcare and disability workflows\. Jeff’s strengths include consultative selling, client relations, business development, account management, sales leadership, workflow design, and translating ambiguous problems into clear product requirements and next decisions\. His commercial background spans residential solar, residential pest control, inside sales, retail, recruiting, team training, new\-market development, and post\-sale customer support\. At LGCY Power, Jeff advanced from the team’s \#1 solar appointment setter to an in\-home closer and generated approximately $500,000 in personal sales revenue in 2022\. He has also generated approximately $250,000 in pest\-control sales at Greenix and approximately $200,000 during his first summer at Aptive Environmental\. Through Neverlost Systems, Jeff has built Neverlost Case Navigator and other governed AI workflow prototypes that emphasize human review, provenance, traceability, bounded authority, and reliable decision\-making\. He approaches both sales and systems work by building trust, clarifying evidence and uncertainty, and helping people move toward well\-defined decisions\.

## Services

- Consultative Selling
- Account Management
- Client Relations
- Business Development
- Sales Leadership

## Highlights

- Founded Neverlost Systems, designing and building human\-centered AI\-assisted products and workflows for complex information and decision environments\.
- Built Neverlost Case Navigator, a synthetic decision\-support application using the OpenAI API, structured AI proposals, explicit human approval gates, and downstream provenance\.
- Developed systems and prototypes for persistent AI context, governed agentic workflows, capacity\-aware development, and multi\-stakeholder coordination\.
- Uses AI coding agents across architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, technical review, documentation, and release verification while retaining human responsibility for final decisions\.
- Creates product demos, technical presentations, and decision frameworks that translate complex systems into stakeholder and commercial narratives\.
- Maintains public demos, repositories, and an AI Systems & Product Portfolio documenting selected work and development methods\.
- Works on Never Lost Sales systems software focused on healthcare and disability workflows\.
- Brings extensive firsthand experience with healthcare and disability workflows, provider systems, and patient\-provider relationships\.
- Uses a patient\-first approach to build end\-user buy\-in and support provider adoption\.
- Maps complex, fragmented workflows and creates trackable systems intended to improve outcomes\.
- Generated approximately $500,000 in personal sales revenue during 2022 as a Solar Sales Closer at LGCY Power\.
- Advanced from appointment setter to full\-cycle Solar Sales Closer at LGCY Power, conducting in\-home consultations and supporting accounts from contract through installation\.
- Became the \#1 setter on the LGCY Power team through direct prospecting and consultative solar conversations\.
- Generated a personal best of 10 closed deals in one week as a Solar Sales Setter at LGCY Power\.
- Received a Setter of the Year nomination based on approximately six months of performance at LGCY Power\.
- Relocated to Dallas and helped launch and develop a new LGCY Power sales market alongside management\.
- Helped lead and develop a residential solar sales team at Ion Solar while continuing to close deals directly\.
- Recruited, onboarded, and coached solar setters and closers at Ion Solar in the Austin market\.
- Serves as a first\-year Sales Manager at Greenix, building and training a sales team\.
- Recognized as an elite door\-to\-door sales representative at Greenix\.
- Generated approximately $250,000 in personal pest\-control sales revenue at Greenix Pest Control\.
- Recruited, trained, and supported a Greenix field sales team while continuing individual production\.
- Sold 200 accounts during his rookie year as an Aptive Environmental door\-to\-door sales representative in Ft\. Lauderdale, Florida\.
- Generated approximately $200,000 in personal sales revenue during his first summer selling residential pest\-control services at Aptive Environmental\.
- Took on an informal team\-lead role during a second season at Aptive, mentoring newer representatives and assuming additional responsibilities after the manager left\.
- Worked inside sales at HelpCloud, converting inbound and warm outbound technical\-support opportunities and using Salesforce for follow\-up and pipeline records\.
- Provided consultative golf\-equipment fitting and customer service at Roger Dunn Golf Shops\.
- Supported retail sales and customer recommendations for golf equipment, apparel, and accessories at Uinta Golf\.
- Earned a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Utah Valley University in 2021\.
- Studied Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at Weber State University in 2019\.

## Experience

- **Sales Manager at Greenix** (2019\-09\-01–present) — Elite Door to Door Sales Rep\. • First year sales manager\. • In charge of building and training a sales team\.
- **Sales Representative at Aptive Environmental** (2018\-12\-01–2019\-09\-01) — Door to Door Sales Rep\. • Sold 200 accounts my rookie year\. • Sold in Ft\. • Lauderdale, Florida\.
- **Commission Sales Associate at Roger Dunn Golf Shops** (2018\-08\-01–2019\-05\-01) — Helped give customers a pleasant shopping experience\. • In charge of personally fitting a customer to a specific set of golf clubs\. • Customer service in a retail environment\.
- **Neverlost Systems at Founder / AI Systems & Product Developer** (2024–present) — Design and build AI\-assisted products and workflows focused on human review, provenance, traceability, bounded authority, and reliable decision\-making\. Built Neverlost Case Navigator, a synthetic decision\-support application using the OpenAI API, structured AI proposals, explicit human approval gates, and downstream provenance\. Developed systems and prototypes for persistent AI context, governed agentic workflows, capacity\-aware development, and multi\-stakeholder coordination\. Use AI coding agents throughout the product lifecycle for architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, technical review, documentation, and release verification, while retaining human responsibility for final decisions\. Create product demos, technical presentations, and decision frameworks that translate complex systems into clear stakeholder and commercial narratives\. Maintain public demos, repositories, and an AI Systems & Product Portfolio documenting selected work and development methods\.
- **Sales Manager at Ion Solar** (2023–2023) — Helped lead and develop a residential solar sales team alongside co\-managers while continuing to close deals directly\. Recruited and onboarded new representatives, coached setters and closers on prospecting, presentations, objection handling, and closing strategy, and supported day\-to\-day team performance\. Helped build team culture, improve sales execution, and drive production in the Austin market\.
- **Solar Sales Closer at LGCY Power** (2022–2023) — Promoted from appointment setter into a full\-cycle closing role, conducting in\-home solar consultations, identifying customer needs, presenting system and financing options, handling objections, and closing residential solar agreements\. Generated approximately $500,000 in personal sales revenue during 2022\. Worked closely with case managers after the sale to maintain customer communication, resolve project issues, and help move accounts from signed contract through successful installation\.
- **Solar Sales Setter at LGCY Power** (2021–2022) — Became the \#1 setter on the team, generating qualified residential solar appointments through direct prospecting and consultative conversations\. Personal best of 10 closed deals generated in one week and earned a Setter of the Year nomination based on approximately six months of performance\. Relocated to Dallas and helped support the launch and development of a new sales market alongside management\.
- **Team Lead at Aptive Environmental** (2021–2021) — Returned to Aptive for a second season and took on an informal team\-lead role while continuing to sell residential pest\-control services door\-to\-door\. As one of the most experienced representatives on the team, helped newer reps with prospecting strategy, objection handling, presentations, and day\-to\-day field support\. Took on additional leadership responsibilities when the team’s manager left while continuing to contribute to team production\.
- **Team Lead at Greenix Pest Control** (2020–2020) — Generated approximately $250,000 in personal pest\-control sales revenue through direct\-to\-consumer, door\-to\-door sales\. Helped recruit, train, and support a field sales team while continuing to produce individually\. Coached representatives on prospecting, objection handling, presentations, and closing strategies in a fast\-paced, commission\-driven environment\.
- **Sales Representative at HelpCloud** (2019–2020) — Worked in inside sales for technical support services, handling inbound leads and warm outbound opportunities\. Identified customer needs, explained service options, addressed objections, and converted qualified prospects into customers\. Used Salesforce to document interactions, manage follow\-up, and maintain accurate customer and pipeline information\.
- **Sales Associate at Uinta Golf** (2018–2019) — Assisted customers with golf equipment, apparel, and accessories, provided product recommendations based on individual needs, and supported day\-to\-day retail sales and customer service\. Helped maintain an organized sales floor and positive in\-store experience while developing early experience in consultative selling and relationship building\.
- **Golf Course Grounds Crew at Oakridge Country Club** (2015–2016) — Maintained golf course grounds and supported daily course operations through mowing, trimming, cleanup, landscaping, and general course maintenance\. Worked early\-morning shifts in a team environment and developed strong habits around reliability, attention to detail, and completing physically demanding work to a high standard\.

## Education

- Bachelor's degree, Marketing — Utah Valley University (2018\-01\-01–2022\-01\-01)
- Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services — Weber State University (2018–2019)

## FAQ

### What does Jeff do now?

Jeff is the founder and AI Systems & Product Developer at Neverlost Systems, where he designs and builds AI\-assisted products and workflows\. He is also a Sales Manager at Greenix\.

### What are Jeff’s professional strengths?

Jeff has 11 years of sales experience across residential solar, residential pest control, inside sales, retail sales, account management, recruiting, team leadership, and business development\. His work also includes AI product development, workflow and systems design, AI evaluation, technical documentation, project management, and collaboration with developers and technical reviewers\.

### What does Jeff build at Neverlost Systems?

Jeff builds human\-centered AI\-assisted products and workflows for complex information and decision environments\. His work emphasizes human review, provenance, traceability, bounded authority, and reliable decision\-making\.

### What is Neverlost Case Navigator?

Jeff built Neverlost Case Navigator, a synthetic decision\-support application that uses the OpenAI API, structured AI proposals, explicit human\-approval gates, and downstream provenance\.

### How does Jeff approach AI systems development?

Jeff has developed systems and prototypes for persistent AI context, governed agentic workflows, capacity\-aware development, and multi\-stakeholder coordination\. He uses AI coding agents for architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, technical review, documentation, and release verification while retaining human responsibility for final decisions\.

### What healthcare and disability work is Jeff doing?

Jeff is working on Never Lost Sales systems software focused on healthcare and disability workflows\. He has extensive firsthand experience with healthcare and disability workflows, provider systems, and patient\-provider relationships, and he uses a patient\-first approach to gain end\-user buy\-in that can support provider adoption\.

### How does Jeff translate complex problems into products?

Jeff maps fragmented workflows and turns ambiguous problems into trackable systems, workflows, and product requirements intended to improve outcomes\. He also creates product demos, technical presentations, and decision frameworks that make complex systems understandable for stakeholders and commercial audiences\.

### What does Jeff do at Greenix?

At Greenix, Jeff is a first\-year sales manager responsible for building and training a sales team\. He has been recognized as an elite door\-to\-door sales representative\.

### What did Jeff accomplish at Greenix Pest Control?

Jeff generated approximately $250,000 in personal pest\-control sales revenue through direct\-to\-consumer, door\-to\-door selling at Greenix Pest Control\. He also recruited, trained, and supported field representatives and coached them on prospecting, objection handling, presentations, and closing strategies\.

### What did Jeff do at Ion Solar?

At Ion Solar, Jeff helped lead and develop a residential solar sales team alongside co\-managers while continuing to close deals directly\. He recruited and onboarded representatives, coached setters and closers on prospecting, presentations, objection handling, and closing strategy, and supported team performance and production in the Austin market\.

### What did Jeff accomplish as a Solar Sales Closer at LGCY Power?

Jeff was promoted from appointment setter to a full\-cycle solar closing role at LGCY Power\. He conducted in\-home consultations, identified needs, presented system and financing options, handled objections, closed residential solar agreements, and generated approximately $500,000 in personal sales revenue during 2022\. He also worked with case managers after the sale to maintain customer communication, resolve project issues, and support installation completion\.

### What did Jeff accomplish as a Solar Sales Setter at LGCY Power?

As a Solar Sales Setter at LGCY Power, Jeff became the \#1 setter on his team by generating qualified residential solar appointments through direct prospecting and consultative conversations\. His personal best was generating 10 closed deals in one week, and he received a Setter of the Year nomination based on approximately six months of performance\. He relocated to Dallas and helped management launch and develop a new sales market\.

### What was Jeff’s experience as an Aptive Environmental sales representative?

Jeff sold 200 accounts during his rookie year as a door\-to\-door sales representative for Aptive Environmental in Ft\. Lauderdale, Florida\. In a separate first\-summer role with Aptive, he generated approximately $200,000 in personal revenue selling residential pest\-control services through direct outreach, presentations, objection handling, and closing\.

### What did Jeff do as a Team Lead at Aptive Environmental?

During his second season at Aptive Environmental, Jeff took on an informal team\-lead role while continuing to sell door\-to\-door\. As one of the team’s more experienced representatives, he helped newer reps with prospecting, presentations, objection handling, and field support, and assumed additional leadership responsibilities after the manager left\.

### What did Jeff do at HelpCloud?

At HelpCloud, Jeff worked in inside sales for technical\-support services\. He handled inbound leads and warm outbound opportunities, identified customer needs, explained service options, addressed objections, converted qualified prospects, and used Salesforce to manage follow\-up and maintain customer and pipeline records\.

### What was Jeff’s golf retail experience?

At Roger Dunn Golf Shops, Jeff supported a pleasant retail shopping experience, provided customer service, and personally fitted customers for specific sets of golf clubs\. At Uinta Golf, he recommended equipment, apparel, and accessories based on customer needs, supported retail sales and service, and helped maintain an organized sales floor and positive in\-store experience\.

### What did Jeff do at Oakridge Country Club?

At Oakridge Country Club, Jeff maintained golf\-course grounds and supported daily operations through mowing, trimming, cleanup, landscaping, and general maintenance\. The early\-morning, team\-based work strengthened his reliability, attention to detail, and ability to complete physically demanding work to a high standard\.

### What is Jeff’s education?

Jeff earned a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Utah Valley University in 2021\. He also studied Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at Weber State University in 2019\.

### What sales and leadership skills does Jeff bring?

Jeff’s listed skills include consultative selling, account management, client relations, business development, and sales leadership\. He has led teams and adapted sales approaches to different demographics and sales types\.

### Where can people review Jeff’s AI product work?

Jeff maintains public demos, repositories, and an AI Systems & Product Portfolio documenting selected products, technical projects, demos, and development methods\.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/jeff\-summerhays\-b3b74117b

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