Founding program · TPEP
Give local businesses somewhere practical to go next.
TPEP is a working platform for economic-development officers, entrepreneurs, and established businesses: shared goals, accountable relationships, focused resources, and useful software rather than another generic trade portal.
The operating model
TPEP treats trade promotion as a managed relationship and a capability-building process. It separates verification, consent, program participation, and software access so that each decision is visible and reversible.
An officer establishes a verified presence
Municipal and regional officers, chambers, sector clusters, incubators, development banks, and other eligible delivery organizations may apply openly. Nish Trade verifies the office and role before enabling portfolio authority.
A business chooses to participate
A business can register directly or arrive through a local relationship. It controls whether a particular EDO may coordinate its TPEP plan, and the agreed relationship has a deliberately narrow scope.
The program turns needs into operating support
The parties identify concrete goals—first export, a new market, better export operations, trade finance, productivity, or corporate planning—and use the resources and software appropriate to the firm’s stage.
Access follows an explicit entitlement
A TPEP Account can be recognized by connected Nish Trade products, but an account alone never creates access. Every product entitlement is approved and each product enforces its own roles.
Why software belongs in a trade program
For a young firm, the constraint on trade is often not lack of another market report. It is the absence of ordinary management infrastructure: reliable books, organized customer follow-up, shared documents, and a project plan that survives the working week. TPEP uses program-priced software as the practical incentive to join and as the machinery through which capability improves.
For larger firms, replacing core systems is rarely sensible. The program therefore shifts toward bounded, additive workspaces—cross-border tax planning, evidence assembly, market-entry projects, and specialist collaboration—that can sit alongside established systems without forcing a costly migration.
Choose your route
Economic-development organizations
Build and support a consent-based business portfolio.
See eligible organization types, verification, relationship controls, and the EDO workspace.
Businesses and entrepreneurs
Build operating capacity around a concrete trade goal.
See how participation, EDO relationships, software access, and privacy work.