@DarkSheepArts You have all my sympathy.
Were this to happen to me(*), I'd take the money angle and dutifully write a spreadsheet with the left side labelled "costs" and listing how much the tool would cost in both upfront and recurrent spending (including, yes, all indirect costs such as insurance for potential damages etc), and the right side labelled "benefits" and conspicuously empty.
(*) I *did* get a "how about about using blockchain?" question a few years back. For an embedded device.