Câmara Municipal de Caicó

What Câmara Municipal de Caicó does

Câmara Municipal de Caicó is the legislative body of the municipality of Caicó in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, established under the 1988 Brazilian Federal Constitution. The chamber consists of 17 elected council members (vereadores) and approximately 75 employees, operating from a single headquarters at Rua Felipe Guerra, 179, Centro, Caicó. Its constitutional functions include municipal lawmaking, budget approval, and executive oversight for the municipality's roughly 68,000 residents. The current legislature (2025-2028) was inaugurated on January 2, 2025, and operates under a Mesa Diretora with multi-layered oversight from the TCE-RN (external audit) and Ministério Público do Estado (oversight and prosecution).

The chamber's technology platform is built on Plone with the SAPL (Sistema de Apoio ao Processo Legislativo) for legislative process management, the e-publica portal for transparency, and the FalaBR platform for citizen complaints and information requests. It publishes JSON-based open data APIs covering institutional, ombudsman, legislative process, and transparency data, with a Swagger-documented SAPL API. Accessibility features include VLibras (Brazilian Sign Language) integration and WCAG-1.0-compliant design. The chamber maintains compliance with the Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI), the LGPD (with a designated DPO, Athur Augusto de Araújo), and operates a formal Controladoria-Geral established by Lei nº 5.584/2025, plus a dedicated Procuradoria da Mulher for women's rights assistance.

The chamber is funded through public municipal budget allocations rather than commercial revenue; it does not charge for legislative information or services. Its strategic posture is institutional modernization — open data, digital accessibility, internal controls, and LGPD/LAI compliance — rather than commercial growth. Third-party partnerships include AGE Assessoria (technology and transparency portal hosting), Interlegis (Senate Federal standards program), and integrations with the federal FalaBR platform.

Name

Câmara Municipal de Caicó

Legal name

Câmara Municipal de Caicó

Website

https://caico.rn.leg.br

Company type

Public

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Câmara Municipal de Caicó is the constitutionally mandated legislative body of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, comprising 17 elected council members and 75 staff, serving the municipality's ~68,000 residents through lawmaking, budget oversight, and transparency services delivered via a Plone/SAPL-based digital platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Caicó

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Municipal Budget Allocation: As a legislative body of the municipality of Caicó, the chamber operates on public budget allocations from municipal funds, approved through the legislative budget process. Revenue comes from constitutional transfers and local tax collections as allocated by law.

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Câmara Municipal de Caicó is the municipal legislative body of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It performs lawmaking, budget approval, and executive oversight functions for the municipality, operating the SAPL-based legislative process system, the Portal de Transparência Social, the Ouvidoria and SIC/e-SIC citizen services channels, and a Dados Abertos Open Data portal. All services are provided free of charge to the approximately 68,000 residents of Caicó.

Product overview

Câmara Municipal de Caicó operates a web-based citizen services platform providing digital access to municipal legislative functions and government transparency. The core offering consists of integrated digital services including the Portal de Transparência Social for financial transparency, the Ouvidoria and SIC/e-SIC channels for citizen feedback and information requests under LAI compliance, the SAPL-based Processo Legislativo system for managing laws and legislative proceedings, and a Dados Abertos API providing structured JSON data. Additional services include Recursos Humanos transparency, a dedicated Procuradoria da Mulher office, and an Internal Control System (Controladoria-Geral) with risk management and compliance functions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Processo Legislativo (SAPL)
• Portal de Transparência Social
• Ouvidoria

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% transparency compliance with Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI 12.527/2011)
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (TCE-RN)coreOthersThe chamber operates under the oversight jurisdiction of the TCE-RN, which conducts external audits of municipal accounts and ensures compliance with fiscal responsibility laws and Brazilian accounting standards.
• Ministério Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (MPRN)coreOthersThe MPRN maintains institutional oversight of the municipal government, including the legislative chamber, and can initiate investigations, public civil actions, and enforcement measures related to illegal acts or omissions.
• AGE Assessoria (Third-party administrative services)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAGE Assessoria provides administrative and technological support services to the chamber, including hosting the Portal da Transparência Social and providing operational systems for legislative management.
• Interlegis (Programa Interlegis do Senado Federal)minorOthersThe chamber uses the Interlegis platform (a Senate Federal program) for website content management and follows Interlegis standards for legislative portals, demonstrating adherence to Brazilian legislative IT standards.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Senado Federal: Operator of the Interlegis program that standardizes municipal chamber websites and SAPL integrations across Brazil. Functions as the upstream technology and standards-setter for entities like Câmara de Caicó.
• Câmara dos Deputados: Federal legislative body providing the legislative process model (SAPL, open data APIs, transparency portal) that smaller municipal chambers replicate via Interlegis. Comparable in function, not scale.
• Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro: Municipal chamber of Rio de Janeiro, a major Brazilian city. Comparable legislative functions and citizen-services portfolio at much larger scale; useful reference for advanced transparency practices.
• Câmara Municipal de São Paulo: Largest municipal legislative chamber in Brazil. Operates the same constitutional municipal legislative mandate with far greater scale, budget, and digital infrastructure — useful as a broad-incumbent benchmark for citizen-service depth.
• Câmara Municipal de Curitiba: Municipal chamber of Curitiba, recognized for advanced transparency and open-data practices. Comparable legislative mandate and digital-services portfolio at a much larger scale.

Regional players

• Câmara Municipal de Fortaleza: Municipal chamber of Fortaleza in neighboring Ceará. Comparable mandate and Interlegis-based digital services, serving as a cross-state benchmark for Northeastern Brazilian municipal legislatures.
• Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte: Municipal chamber of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Runs a comparable transparency and citizen-services portfolio under the same federal LAI/LGPD framework but in a different regional jurisdiction.

Direct peers

• Câmara Municipal de Natal: Legislative chamber of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte. Larger in scale but offers a directly comparable mandate, transparency portal structure, and citizen-services portfolio (Ouvidoria, SIC, SAPL) within the same state regulatory framework.
• Câmara Municipal de Parnamirim: Municipal chamber of Parnamirim (RN), a mid-sized municipality adjacent to Natal. Same Interlegis-based portal architecture and statutory functions make it a near-comparable peer in population and mandate.
• Câmara Municipal de Mossoró: Municipal legislative chamber of Mossoró, the second-largest city in Rio Grande do Norte. Operates the same Interlegis/Plone/SAPL stack and serves a comparable citizen base, making it a directly comparable municipal peer within the same state.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@cmcaico/streams
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/c%C3%A2mara-municipal-de-caic%C3%B3

Compliance3 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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