Program Interlegis

What Program Interlegis does

Program Interlegis is an official program of the Brazilian Federal Senate, administered through the Brazilian Legislative Institute (Instituto Legislativo Brasileiro, ILB), that provides free, open-source technology solutions to legislative bodies across Brazil. It serves more than 3,500 legislative chambers in all 26 Brazilian states plus the Federal District, targeting municipal and state legislatures that typically lack dedicated IT budgets or technical staff.

The program's product portfolio comprises four integrated components: SAPL (Sistema de Apoio ao Processo Legislativo), an open-source legislative process management system; Portal Modelo, a standardized website template for legislative bodies; Dominio.leg, a domain registration service operating the .leg.br namespace; and Hospedagem, a hosting service for legislative websites. Together these products cover the core IT needs of small and mid-sized legislative chambers, including process automation, public-facing communications, identity (domain), and infrastructure. No APIs or third-party integrations are disclosed, and the stack is maintained as free open-source software.

Its business model is non-commercial: all products and services are provided free of charge to legislative bodies, with the program funded through the Federal Senate's institutional budget and operationalized via Technical Cooperation Agreements with participating chambers. Go-to-market relies on the program's federal mandate, annual events such as EnGITEC (433 participants from 147 municipalities in 2024), institutional recognition including the Prêmio Abel award, and direct digital outreach through Instagram, YouTube, and WhatsApp. Operations are run by a small team (1–10 employees) based in Brasília.

Name

Program Interlegis

Legal name

Senado Federal - Programa Interlegis

Website

http://www.interlegis.leg.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Program Interlegis is a Brazilian Federal Senate program that provides free, open-source technology solutions—legislative process management, web hosting, and domain services—to over 3,500 legislative chambers across all 26 Brazilian states and the Federal District.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Legislative Technology Software

NAICS

Legislative Bodies (92112), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Intergovernmental Affairs & Federal Grants Administration (BPAIAAAC)

Keywords

• Legislative process management
• Government software platforms
• Open-source legislative technology
• Municipal government websites
• Digital legislative services

Headquarters

HQ city

Brasília

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Public Institutional Funding: As a program of the Brazilian Federal Senate, Interlegis is funded through public federal budget allocations rather than commercial revenue generation. Services are provided free of charge to qualifying legislative bodies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Program Interlegis provides free, open-source software and digital services to Brazilian legislative bodies. Its core offerings include SAPL for managing the legislative process (bills, voting, sessions, and document workflows), Portal Modelo for standardized institutional websites, .leg domain registration, and web hosting. The program serves all municipal chambers and state assemblies across Brazil's 26 states and the Federal District, delivered through its website portal, remote Zoom training, and in-person workshops under Technical Cooperation Agreements.

Product overview

Program Interlegis is a technology program of the Brazilian Federal Senate that provides a suite of software products and services to support legislative bodies across Brazil. The portfolio consists of five main offerings: SAPL (Sistema de Apoio ao Processo Legislativo) for managing legislative processes and voting; Portal Modelo for creating and managing legislative websites; Domínio .leg for official .leg domain registration; Hospedagem for web hosting services; and O Legislativo na Internet as a comprehensive package combining these tools. Interlegis serves municipal chambers and state assemblies across all 26 Brazilian states and the Federal District, providing technology solutions to modernize and digitize legislative operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SAPL: Sistema de Apoio ao Processo Legislativo (Legislative Process Support System) - software for managing legislative proceedings
• Portal Modelo
• Dominio.leg
• ILB

Products and services

• SAPL (Sistema de Apoio ao Processo Legislativo) Open-source legislative process support system used by Brazilian legislative bodies to manage bills, voting records, session minutes, and legislative document workflows.
• Portal Modelo Content management system designed for Brazilian legislative bodies to create and manage their official institutional websites with standardized templates and accessibility features.
• Domínio .leg Official internet domain registration service providing .leg.br web addresses for municipal chambers and state assemblies in Brazil.
• Hospedagem (Hosting) Web hosting service provided to legislative bodies that use Interlegis products, enabling them to maintain their online presence through shared infrastructure.
• O Legislativo na Internet Comprehensive bundled package providing legislative bodies with websites, tools, and services to establish their presence on the internet, including the full suite of Interlegis products.

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Technical Cooperation Agreements (Acordos de Cooperação Técnica)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInterlegis operates through formal Technical Cooperation Agreements with legislative bodies, establishing the framework for providing technology solutions, training, and support services. These agreements formalize the relationship between Interlegis and participating municipal chambers and state assemblies.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• NALIT (National Association of Legislative Information Technology): U.S.-based association supporting IT professionals in state legislatures. Highly comparable to Interlegis because it operates in the same niche — providing technology resources, training, and community to subnational legislative bodies — even though it is organized as an association rather than a federal program.
• GovTrack.us: U.S. nonprofit that tracks bills, votes, and legislators and makes legislative information publicly accessible. Comparable to Interlegis's transparency mandate (Portal Modelo, SAPL public-facing records) as a civic-tech platform serving the legislative transparency use case.
• OpenStates: Civic-tech organization that aggregates and standardizes U.S. state legislative data for the public. Comparable to Interlegis's mission of digitizing and standardizing legislative process records across many jurisdictions (3,500+ chambers in Brazil).

Others

• Plone Foundation: Open-source content management system that underpins Portal Modelo. Comparable as the underlying technology stack Interlegis relies on; an enabling technology partner rather than a direct competitor.
• Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU): Global inter-parliamentary organization promoting cooperation and capacity-building among national legislatures. Comparable in mission (modernizing and supporting legislative institutions) and is a plausible channel through which Interlegis's Brazilian model could be disseminated internationally.
• CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation): Open-source data management platform widely used by governments to publish open data, including legislative datasets. Comparable as an open-source government-data infrastructure peer that competes conceptually for the same digital-government modernization budgets.

Regional players

• Serpro (Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados): Brazilian federal government IT services company that processes data and runs technology systems for federal agencies. Comparable as a Brazilian government technology provider operating at federal scale, though its scope is broader than Interlegis's legislative focus.
• Prodesp (Companhia de Processamento de Dados do Estado de São Paulo): São Paulo state government IT services company. Comparable as a subnational government technology provider that delivers digital infrastructure to public-sector clients, including state-level institutions, in Brazil.

Emerging players

• Sunlight Foundation: U.S.-based civic-tech organization focused on government transparency and open legislative data. Comparable as a civic-tech peer operating in the legislative-transparency space, with overlapping open-data and public-records missions to Interlegis's SAPL/Portal Modelo offerings.
• Code for America: U.S. nonprofit that builds digital services for government. Comparable as a civic-tech peer that modernizes how citizens and institutions interact with public-sector systems, with similar focus areas (open-source tooling, government digital transformation).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/programainterlegis
• Instagraminstagram.com/interlegis_
• Xx.com/interlegison
• Facebookfacebook.com/interlegisonline

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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