Fiscal Digital
About
Fiscal Digital is an autonomous agent that reads official gazettes from 50 Brazilian cities every day, identifies risk patterns, and publishes factual alerts with cited sources.
The Problem
5,570 Brazilian municipalities publish their administrative acts in official gazettes. The content is public — but illegible in practice. Long PDFs, no search, no alerts. Contract fragmentation, phantom suppliers, and abusive amendments go unnoticed until they become audit findings — years later.
Civil society cannot monitor 50+ cities in real time. Local investigative journalism is in structural crisis. Fiscal Digital changes this: it is an autonomous agent that reads municipal official gazettes 24 hours a day, identifies risk patterns based on the New Procurement Law (Law 14.133/2021), generates factual alerts with cited sources, and publishes them on open public channels.
How It Works
Ten specialized Fiscal Agents run in parallel: Procurement Auditor (fragmentation, improper waivers), Contract Auditor (amendments > 25%, excess renewals), Supplier Auditor (young CNPJ, market concentration), Personnel Auditor (hiring spikes in election periods), Covenant Auditor (recurring transfers without renewal), Nepotism Auditor (unlikely surname coincidences), Advertising Auditor (prohibited-window hiring), Lease Auditor (unjustified waivers), Daily Allowance Auditor (weekend/holiday payments), and Chief Auditor (orchestrates and consolidates risk).
Every alert cites the law that justifies the flag and links to the original document on Querido Diário. We do not accuse — we inform. Factual language. Any citizen can verify the evidence.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Fiscal Digital is born from the same energy that created Serenata de Amor (OKFN Brazil — federal) and Querido Diário (OKFN Brazil — municipal). We do not compete — we extend the ecosystem. Every finding links back to the original gazette. We never duplicate data.
Serenata de Amor → Federal (CEAP) Querido Diário → Municipal (open data infrastructure) Fiscal Digital → Municipal (intelligence + alerts on QD data)
Uncompromisable principles
1. Always cite the source — every alert links to the original gazette. 2. Inform, do not accuse — factual language, never accusatory. 3. Algorithm transparency — each alert explains why it was flagged. 4. Public verifiability — any citizen can check. 5. Public correction — published error = correction on the same channel and reach.
100% publicly funded. Zero ads. Zero data sales. Zero conflicts of interest. Code MIT. Alerts CC-BY 4.0. Costs public at fiscaldigital.org/transparencia.
Repository map
| Repository | Role | License |
|---|---|---|
| fiscal-digital | Engine (Fiscal Agents + Skills + API) and Terraform | MIT |
| fiscal-digital-web | Institutional site and per-city dashboards | MIT |
| fiscal-digital-collectors | Data-source adapters | MIT |
| fiscal-digital-analytics | Notebooks, reports, and CSV exports | CC-BY 4.0 |
Licensing
We follow the Querido Diário (OKFN Brazil) standard. Code under a permissive license, data and alerts under a license that requires attribution.
- MIT— All code in the main repositories. You may use, modify, and redistribute it, including commercially, as long as the copyright notice is preserved.
- CC-BY 4.0— All published alerts, derived datasets, and analytical materials. You may reuse them freely, provided Fiscal Digital is credited as the source.