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Rankings you can defend in a budget meeting.
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We map every credible vendor in a category — not just the ones with affiliate programs — and set category-specific evaluation criteria.
We buy the plans, run real workloads, file unannounced support tickets and benchmark performance over weeks, not demos.
Vendors are scored against published criteria. Rankings reflect buyer fit — commissions and partnerships never move a position.
Every guide is re-tested and re-dated each quarter. If a vendor slips, the ranking changes. If it’s stale, we say so.
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Straight Advisor started as Georgia Straight’s agent-finder. The mission outgrew real estate — so we rebuilt it as an independent research desk for the software and services businesses actually buy. (The realtor directory is still around — linked in the footer.)
