I spent my career as a VP of IT and CIO. I've run the vendor selections, defended the budgets to the board, inherited the messes, and made the calls that didn't go well and had to own them.
Which means I've been on the other side of this table. I know what it's like when every advisor in the room is selling something, and the one thing you can't buy is a straight answer.
I started Equivitech to be the thing I could never find: someone senior, genuinely independent, with no product to push and no commission to chase.
If you want an honest opinion from someone with nothing to sell you but the opinion, that's the entire job.