Orchestrating Agent
Chief Fiscal
Orchestrates the 9 specialized Fiscal Agents and identifies recurring patterns across entities.
The Fiscal Agents read official gazettes and identify irregularities based on explicit legal criteria.
Published findings
Gazettes analyzed
50 / 52
Cities monitored
Real operating cost
Every day, 5,570 Brazilian municipalities publish their acts in official gazettes: billion-dollar contracts, procurement waivers, political appointments. The content is public by law. But illegible in practice: long PDFs, no search, no alerts. Contract fragmentation, phantom suppliers and abusive amendments go unnoticed for years. Fiscal Digital reads these documents for you. Identifies risk patterns with explicit legal criteria. Publishes verifiable alerts with sources always cited.
Updated on every pipeline run.
Gazettes processed
Findings published
Cities monitored
Cumulative cost
Ten autonomous agents watch over different facets of municipal public spending.
Orchestrating Agent
Orchestrates the 9 specialized Fiscal Agents and identifies recurring patterns across entities.
Spots unjustified waivers, contract splitting and suspicious non-bidding awards.
Flags amendments above 25% of the original value and extensions beyond the legal limit.
Surfaces CNPJs less than 6 months old at contract date and concentration above 40% per department.
Detects appointment spikes in election periods and abnormal turnover in commissioned roles.
Detects an uncommon surname shared between a political appointee and an officeholder or department head.
Detects institutional advertising contracts entered into during the period prohibited by electoral legislation.
Detects property lease contracts signed on a sole-source basis without the legally required technical justifications.
Detects per diem allowances above the reference threshold and trips whose dates coincide with national holidays or weekends.
Detects civil society organization agreements entered into without a public call for proposals and recurring transfers to the same CNPJ without a new formal instrument.
From gazette publication to alert — in under 24 hours
Querido Diário retrieves the official municipal gazettes published that day.
Official gazettes publish municipal acts every business day — that is where public spending becomes law. No one reads it all.
An AI model identifies company IDs (CNPJ), amounts, contract names, and the department involved.
Turning a PDF into structured data is what makes cross-referencing at scale possible.
10 Fiscal Agents apply legal rules — for example, an amendment above 25% violates Art. 125 of Law 14.133.
Each Agent watches a specific legal boundary, with documented criteria and explicit legal basis.
Findings with risk ≥ 60 and confidence ≥ 0.70 become public cards linked to the original gazette.
The thresholds ensure only findings with solid evidence are published — minimizing false positives.
50 municipalities monitored in real time. Official gazettes processed every day via Querido Diário. Alerts published as soon as risk patterns are detected.
50 of 52 cities live, spread across 22 states. Complete coverage of state capitals and top 50 by population.
Ranked by alerts published in the pipeline. Cities with higher administrative activity have more signals detected.
Fiscal Digital extends — not competes with — the foundational Brazilian civic innovation projects. Every finding we publish links back to the original data on Querido Diário. We never replicate.
A pioneer in applying AI to oversight of Brazilian public spending. Has monitored federal congressional expense reimbursements (CEAP) since 2016. Our Fiscal Agents approach is directly inspired by Rosie.
serenata.aiThe infrastructure that has digitized the official gazettes of hundreds of Brazilian municipalities. It is our primary data source. Without Querido Diário, Fiscal Digital would not exist.
queridodiario.ok.org.brFiscal Digital was built on top of these two projects. We extend the Brazilian civic innovation ecosystem to the municipal level — using Querido Diário's data with the Serenata method.
The entire engine, infrastructure and website are open source. Inspect, audit, contribute — every piece is in a public repository.
Every contribution strengthens public oversight. Choose how you want to participate.
Open issues, review PRs, or implement a new Fiscal Agent. The repository is public and every relevant technical decision is discussed openly.
View issues on GitHubSuggest a new city, validate a finding, or report a false positive. Your human review calibrates the system.
Suggest a city or findingShare alerts, write about the project, or use the data in news stories. CC-BY 4.0 — always with attribution.
Join the discussionsRecurring support on Catarse or via GitHub Sponsors. Every inflow is public.
See support optionsFor other conversations: lineu[at]fiscaldigital.org