What you really mean is that you’re looking into how you can open source just enough to create a free-to-paid entrapment pathway. You’ll do open source if you can provide a product where all of your users eventually hit a wall and need to upgrade to a paid plan.

A more honest answer from you would have been “we are just looking to provide a solution” rather than pretending to be working on a true open tooling ecosystem.

Don’t pretend to be open source as in Linux or git when you’re really open source as in MongoDB or Chef Software.