An extra hand in every bay.
Your technician takes a reading and then stops working to write it down. Gloves off, walk to the terminal, type it, walk back, find his place again. Bayhand lets him say "cylinder three, one forty-five PSI" and have it land in the right field — checked against spec, read back to him, confirmed with a thumb button. He never stops working.
What changes on the floor
Four readings, one compression test
- 01Stop work, set down the gauge
- 02Pull off gloves
- 03Walk to the tablet or terminal
- 04Key in the value, re-glove
- 05Walk back, find your place again
Repeat four times on a four-cylinder — or hold all four numbers in your head and enter them at the end, which is where transposed readings come from.
- 01Thumb the button, say the reading
- 02Hear it read back, confirm with the same button
Hands never leave the job. The number is committed at the moment he reads it, not reconstructed twenty minutes later.
Confirmation is a physical button press, not a spoken "yes" — so speech recognition stays out of the safety-critical path. Any reading outside spec range is flagged for the technician, never silently corrected.
How it reads a number
Said once, filed correctly, confirmed before it saves
The value is read back digit by digit, because “one forty-five” and “one fifty-five” sound alike in a loud bay and “one four five” does not. Confirmation is the same button he pressed to talk, so no second recognition step can go wrong.
Every job, not just inspections
Wherever a number has to be written down
Compression and leak-down. Brake pad and rotor measurements. Battery and charging tests. Fuel pressure. Fault codes. Torque values confirmed. The findings, the cause, the correction. Anything that ends up on an estimate you have to stand behind.
Ontario's DriveON program made the problem more visible — mandatory measurements keyed into an MTO tablet at the lift — but the same lost trip sits inside diagnostics, brake work, and every repair order written under the province's 10% estimate rule. Bayhand is built for the whole day, not one inspection type.
Where the time goes
- Hands-on inspection
- Recording & data entry
20 minutes back per inspection — the wrench time is identical, because the work is identical
We are deliberately not claiming the inspection gets faster. The inspection takes exactly as long as it takes. What shrinks is the part that isn't inspecting.
What it's worth
Two ways it pays, both of them checkable
| Input | Value | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Safety inspection duration under DriveON | 2.0 hr | One Ontario technician's public account. Needs verifying shop by shop. |
| Documentation time inside that | 25 min | Our estimate. We would rather measure yours. |
| Billed labour rate | $130/hr | Midpoint of the Ontario $120–140 independent range, mid-2026. |
| Waste per technician per shift | 45 min | Field-service research on clarification and rework from incomplete work orders. US data, not Ontario. |
| What we claim to recover | 15 min | One third of the above. Deliberately conservative. |
| Loaded technician cost | ~$44/hr | A London wage of $35.45/hr plus roughly 25% burden. |
These figures are transferred from other markets, and we would rather say so than have you discover it later. The offer at the bottom of this page exists so you can replace every one of them with a number from your own bay.
Capabilities
What Bayhand does
- Capture measurements, findings and the three Cs hands-free, straight into structured fields
- Read every number back for confirmation before saving
- Flag readings outside spec range rather than correcting them quietly
- Work over the bay WiFi you already have
- Run on a phone with a single ear-hook headset — no new tablet to buy
- Keep listening off until the button is held
What a technician wears
Two pieces, neither of them a tablet
Roughly $150 to $200 per technician, once, and it is the only hardware you buy. Putting the microphone at the lips is what rejects the bay — the headsets we specify cut the large majority of background noise and are rated for dust and water.
Why us
Built in Canada, for Ontario shops
Everything else in this category is American. The nearest competitor is in San Diego. None of it was built for DriveON, the MTO, or Ontario's rule that a final invoice cannot exceed the written estimate by more than ten per cent — because none of that exists where they are.
We are a Canadian company in London, Ontario. For an Ontario operator that means your integration gets built to your requirements rather than added to a backlog in another country, and the person who wrote the software can be standing in your bay the same week.
One bay. One afternoon. No cost.
We record your technicians with their permission, time what documentation actually costs you, and hand you the study. You keep it whether or not you ever buy anything. If the number doesn't justify acting on, we will tell you so in writing.
One thing we ask on the visit: what languages and accents are on your floor. It is the single biggest technical factor in getting this right.
asanka@hdsoftware.ca
HD Software, Inc. — London, Ontario