One way to deliver on-demand in-market services with low overhead costs is to leverage embassy staff, bilateral chambers of commerce, private sector service providers, and diaspora. By significantly reducing the costs of selling across borders, digital platforms can help small TISIs to connect SMEs with international markets, both as sellers and as buyers of final or intermediate goods. In addition to facilitating the matchmaking sen/ices that some TISIs provide, digital tools offer complementary warehousing, logistics, e-payments, and credit and insurance services - in effect creating a new SME trade ecosystem. The reported variables are defined in the natural logarithm.