Independent Android expertise for organisations of any size, from the first platform decision to the day-to-day running of the estate.
See the services ↓Every engagement is led by Jason Bayton and delivered hands-on, with trusted partners brought in where the work calls for it and always under his direction. No account layer, no sales hand-off, no advice tied to a licence sale.
One point of contact from the first decision to the running estate, across every major UEM. More than a decade in Android enterprise, acknowledged by Google, Samsung, Sony and HMD, and hands-on across OEMs including Lenovo, Crosscall, Fairphone and many more.
Turn business, security and operational requirements into a platform choice, architecture, operating model and roadmap. Covers EMM selection, Android deployment design, procurement and TCO.
Product discovery and hands-on direction for EMM, OEM, MTD and Android ecosystem products. Define the problem, prioritise work, write acceptance criteria and challenge assumptions.
Test Android hardware across real UEM platforms, deployment modes and edge cases. Findings include evidence, impact, severity and a clear remediation path.
Support for GMS, Play Protect certification, MADA, EDLA, CDD and xTS across standard, dedicated and specialist Android hardware.
Design policies, app distribution, identity integrations, provisioning, migrations, training and support. Experience spans first pilots through fleets of more than 500,000 devices.
Ongoing, retained support for Android and ChromeOS estates: policy and application changes, health checks, incidents and service requests, scoped to the team rather than a full managed contract. Delivery is independent of the management platform.
Bespoke Android apps and device-side components, including managed configuration, OEM and OTA agents, kiosk and launcher experiences, privileged services and hardware integrations.
Fleet delivery, platform work, device validation, certification and bespoke Android development. Public documentation and technical analysis remain on bayton.org.
Browse the Android library ↗Built the Rhino T8, the purpose-built Android tablet DoorDash merchants run on, with more than 100,000 in the field and same-day deployment at scale.
Read the case study ↗Built the Rhino T5se, a Honeywell-scanning Android device for retail and logistics, patented in the process and proven in multi-store trials for faster scanning and higher productivity.
Read the case study ↗Policy, provisioning, app distribution, operational readiness and support for an 8,000-device Android Enterprise deployment across education and NGO sites.
Read the case study ↗Guided the maker of a purpose-built device, built around an Android touchscreen and onboard computer, through GMS certification: readiness assessment, test triage and a passing build.
Turned an accessible-phone provider's high-risk dependency on third-party Android management into a phased platform strategy: custom DPC architecture, offline resilience, safe updates, provisioning and kiosk control. When platform enforcement shifted the ground, guided the pivot to an interim MDM while keeping open a route to an AOSP product they could own.
Ongoing Google certification and platform advisory for a purpose-built connected-fitness device: aligning GMS and EDLA licensing, ROM compliance, device management, provisioning and OTA across several delivery partners, with the costly risks surfaced early rather than left to chance.
Cleared a multi-year OS upgrade blocker for a global healthcare fleet: 2,000+ Android devices, stuck on an end-of-support OS since 2022, upgraded in place across multiple countries with zero factory resets. A replacement update component, built inside Android's security model and run through the customer's own MDM.
Read the case study ↗Mapped a route to zero-touch connectivity and telemetry for a retail device-experience specialist's fleets: eSIM APIs, OEM retail-demo constraints, EMM capabilities and custom DPC options staged into a roadmap that separated what could ship quickly from what needed deeper platform ownership or carrier approval.
Keep the expertise on hand without a full managed contract. A retainer holds a direct line to Jason for architecture and product decisions, platform change, escalation and the difficult faults. The estate stays yours; the expert stays in orbit around it.
A call solves the moment. Decisions, code, evidence, configuration and runbooks keep it solved.
Requirements, options, trade-offs, cost and a recommendation that technical and commercial stakeholders can use.
Reproducible tests, evidence, impact, severity, ownership and a prioritised path to resolution.
Code, policies, configuration, enrolment, integrations, runbooks and training built for the actual environment.
Requests, changes, application lifecycle, health checks, incidents and reporting with context attached.
A single technical decision can be handled in a focused session. Delivery, development and managed operations get the time and continuity they need.
Hourly, half-day or full-day access for a defined question, architecture review, product decision or difficult fault.
BEST FOR · A BLOCKED DECISIONFixed scope, milestones, evidence, deliverables and handover for validation, strategy, certification, development or deployment.
BEST FOR · A KNOWN OUTCOMERetained product support or managed operations for recurring decisions, estate health, change, incidents and escalation.
BEST FOR · CONTINUOUS CONTEXTIn an ecosystem that doesn’t sit still, B8N is your constant.
01 Advice is not tied to an EMM, OEM or licence sale.
02 The person scoping the work stays with it through delivery.
03 Findings come with evidence, constraints and a next action.
Include the objective, current environment, constraints, timeline and what has already been tried.