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Brazil has more than 5,500 municipalities. Each one publishes an official gazette with contracts, procurement, appointments, and spending. That is millions of pages per year — public data, accessible by law, but impossible to follow at a human scale.

In 2016, the Serenata de Amor project demonstrated that algorithms can identify anomalous patterns in public spending. In 2019, Querido Diário digitized the official gazettes of hundreds of Brazilian municipalities. Two pieces of civic infrastructure built by civil society, together making something new possible.

If every gazette is already digitized, what prevents an algorithm from reading the same clauses an auditor would read — and doing so for every city, every day?

Fiscal Digital connects these two legacies: it uses the Querido Diário archive as its source and the Serenata principle as its method. The focus is the municipality — where everyday purchases happen, where street works are contracted, where political appointments are published.

We do not investigate. We do not accuse. We identify patterns that existing legal criteria define as irregular and make the result verifiable by any citizen. The primary source — the official gazette — is always one click away.