Automating Brazilian company verification for accountants and finance teams

If you work with Brazilian companies — as an accountant, credit analyst, or anyone processing PJ clients at scale — here's a practical automation approach using free public data. What you can verify automatically For any CNPJ, public data gives you: Situação cadastral : ATIVA, BAIXADA, INAPTA, SUSPENSA — critical for invoice validation Razão social : legal name for contract matching CNAE : is this company allowed to do what they claim? QSA : who are the actual partners/directors? Data abertura : how old is the company? The data 65M+ CNPJs from Receita Federal, indexed and searchable at Jurídico Online . Free. Also available as a Python package: pip install juridico-online from juridico_online import empresa_url , buscar_url # Get company page URL for a CNPJ url = empresa_url ( " 00.000.000/0001-91 " ) print ( url ) # https://juridicoonline.com.br/empresa/00000000000191 # Search by company or partner name search = buscar_url ( " Magazine Luiza " ) print ( search ) Checks worth automating 1. Situação ATIVA before accepting any invoice INAPTA or BAIXADA companies cannot legally issue NF-e. 2. CNAE vs service being billed A company with CNAE "comércio de alimentos" billing for software development is a red flag. 3. Company age vs contract value A 3-month-old company offering a R$500k contract deserves extra scrutiny. 4. Shared partners across suppliers If two suppliers share directors, that's a conflict of interest. Search partner names at juridicoonline.com.br to see all companies they control. Integration patterns ERP/AP : validate CNPJ status before releasing payment Onboarding : auto-fill razão social when client enters CNPJ Batch audit : cross-check your vendor list quarterly Monitoring : alert if a key supplier's CNPJ changes status The data is public, free, and updated regularly. No excuse to check manually at scale.