Crea-PB

What Crea-PB does

Crea-PB (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia da Paraíba) is a Brazilian federal autarchy established in 1967 and headquartered in João Pessoa, Paraíba. It operates as the regional regulatory body for engineering, agronomy, and geosciences professionals and companies within the state of Paraíba, under the supervision of CONFEA (Conselho Federal de Engenharia e Agronomia) as part of the national CONFEA/CREA system. The organization's mandate covers professional registration, issuance of ART (Anotações de Responsabilidade Técnica — Technical Responsibility Annotations) for technical projects and services, fiscalization of professional practice, and disciplinary enforcement across the regulated professions.

The core operating platform is the SITAC service portal, which supports online processing of professional and company registrations, annual fee (anuidade) management, ART issuance and substitution, certificate requests, and protocol inquiries. Complementing the compliance workflow, Crea-PB runs value-add member programs including the Clube de Descontos (a multi-city partner benefits network spanning education, health, retail, and services), the CreaJr-PB student initiative, and the Programa Mulher program promoting women in engineering. A dedicated Transparency Portal provides public access to budgets, contracts, and institutional reports in compliance with Brazil's Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI), and the organization maintains a Privacy Policy aligned with the LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados). A reciprocity agreement with Portugal's Ordem dos Engenheiros (OEP) enables mutual professional recognition between Brazilian and Portuguese engineers.

Crea-PB's revenue is generated through mandatory annual fees (anuidades) from registered professionals and companies, ART service charges, registration and certification fees, and administrative penalties for non-compliance. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is administered under federal norms. The organization reports 11–50 employees, with service delivery conducted through the João Pessoa headquarters, regional inspetorias, the SITAC online portal, and a public-facing transparency portal. Strategic activity in 2025–2026 has centered on digital modernization (website relaunch in July 2026, ART system modernization in August 2026) and physical infrastructure investment (headquarters renovation contracted in 2025).

Name

Crea-PB

Legal name

CREA-PB - Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia da Paraíba

Website

https://creapb.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1967

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Crea-PB is a Brazilian federal government autarchy that regulates engineering, agronomy, and geosciences professionals and companies in the state of Paraíba. It operates mandatory registration, technical responsibility annotations (ART), annual fees, certifications, and fiscalization, supported by the SITAC digital platform and member-benefit programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Regulatory Services

NAICS

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors (926150), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors (92615)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDADAFAA

National/State Examination Boards & Testing Agencies

Education/Education Administration, Accreditation & Policy/Assessment, Examinations & Qualifications Authorities

Keywords

• Professional regulatory services
• Engineering professional registration
• Technical responsibility annotation
• Professional council services
• Agronomy licensing oversight

Headquarters

HQ city

João Pessoa, Paraíba

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Annual Fees (Anuidade): Recurring annual fees charged to registered professionals and companies for maintenance of registration and access to council services.
2. ART Services (Anotação de Responsabilidade Técnica): Fees collected for technical responsibility annotations required for engineering and agronomy projects and services.
3. Registration and Certification Services: Fees for new professional registrations, company registrations, professional visas, duplicate ID cards, and various certifications.
4. Fines and Penalties: Revenue from administrative penalties for regulatory violations and non-compliance with professional practice requirements.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Crea-PB is a federal government autarchy that regulates engineering, agronomy, and geosciences professional practice in the Brazilian state of Paraíba. It sells and administers statutory services including Technical Responsibility Annotations (ART), professional and company registration, annual fees (Anuidade), official certificates, and international reciprocity registration with Portugal's Ordem dos Engenheiros. It also conducts fiscalization of professional practice, processes complaints through its Ouvidoria, and publishes transparency information under Brazil's access-to-information law.

Product overview

Crea-PB is a regulatory body (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia da Paraíba) that operates a platform of services for engineering and agronomy professionals and companies in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. The core offering consists of ART (Anotação de Responsabilidade Técnica) for technical responsibility annotation, professional and company registration, annual fee management, and certificate issuance. Supporting services include the Ouvidoria (ombudsman/feedback channel), the Clube de Descontos (discount benefits program), international reciprocity agreements with Portugal, and social programs like Programa Mulher and CreaJr-PB. The organization also provides a comprehensive Transparency portal for public accountability. The SITAC system serves as the underlying service portal for digital processing of these services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ART (Anotação de Responsabilidade Técnica) Registers and tracks professional technical responsibility for engineering, agronomy, and geosciences projects, technical opinions, and services. Used by individual professionals and companies to legally link a technical responsible (RT) to each project or service performed in Paraíba.
• Anuidade (Annual Fee) Annual membership fee management system for registered professionals and companies, including payment processing, debt management, installment options, and cashback incentive programs such as 'Anuidade Zero'.
• Registro Profissional (Professional Registration) Professional registration services covering initial registration for domestic and foreign graduates, provisional registration, reactivation, and interruption of registration for engineers, agronomists, and geoscientists.
• Registro de Empresa (Company Registration) Legal entity registration services for engineering, agronomy, and geosciences companies, including primary and secondary registration, designation of a technical responsible (RT), certificates, and regularization.
• Certidões (Certificates) Official certificate issuance services confirming professional and company registration status, good standing, and technical qualifications. Used by professionals and companies for contracting, bidding, and regulatory verification.
• Reciprocidade Confea/Crea – OEP (International Registration with Portugal) Reciprocity registration service enabling Brazilian engineers to obtain registration with Portugal's Ordem dos Engenheiros (OEP) and Portuguese engineers to register in Brazil, exempting Brazilian professionals from OEP admission exams and Portuguese professionals from diploma revalidation, provided active registration in both institutions is maintained.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Ordem de Engenheiros de Portugal (OEP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMutual reciprocity agreement between Confea/Crea system and OEP allowing Brazilian and Portuguese engineering professionals to obtain reciprocal registration. Brazilian professionals are exempted from admission exams required by OEP, while Portuguese professionals do not need to revalidate diplomas in Brazil. Professionals must maintain active and current registration in both institutions.
• Sistema Confea/CreacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCrea-PB is part of the national Confea/Crea system, which is a federal autarchy regulating engineering, agronomy, and geociences professions across Brazil. The system includes 27 regional CREAs and the national CONFEA council.

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• CREA-PE (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia de Pernambuco): Pernambuco state CREA — Crea-PB's closest geographic peer in the Northeast, with the same registration, ART, certification and oversight services targeting engineers and agronomists in an adjacent state.
• CREA-RJ (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Rio de Janeiro): Rio de Janeiro state CREA offering the same registration, ART, certification and fiscalization services as Crea-PB. Directly comparable in mandate and revenue streams, but operating in a different (and larger) state.
• CREA-MG (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia de Minas Gerais): Minas Gerais state CREA providing identical professional licensing, ART issuance, certification and oversight services to engineers and agronomists. Closest large-state comparator to Crea-PB in terms of structure and product set.
• CREA-SP (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia de São Paulo): Largest state-level CREA in Brazil, providing identical ART, registration, certification and fiscalization services but exclusively in São Paulo state. Same business model and product set as Crea-PB, scaled to the country's largest professional base.
• CREA-PR (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Paraná): Paraná state CREA delivering the same engineering/agronomy professional regulation, ART management and certification offerings as Crea-PB, but at a larger scale in the South region.
• CREA-BA (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia da Bahia): Bahia state CREA operating with the same mandate, fee structure (Anuidade), ART process and fiscalization activities as Crea-PB, but covering Bahia's larger professional base in the same Northeast region.
• CREA-RS (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Rio Grande do Sul): Rio Grande do Sul state CREA — another regional peer with an identical mandate of registering engineering/agronomy professionals, managing ART and conducting fiscalization, comparable in product but operating in the South.

Others

• CONFEA (Conselho Federal de Engenharia e Agronomia): Federal-level parent council of the Sistema Confea/Crea that sets nationwide rules for engineering, agronomy and geosciences. Crea-PB is one of 27 regional autarchies subordinate to CONFEA, making it the most directly comparable governing body.

Broad incumbents

• CAU/BR (Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do Brasil): National federal council regulating architecture and urbanism professionals in Brazil, operating under the same federal-autarchy model as CONFEA/CREA with analogous Anuidade, ART-equivalent (RRT), certification and fiscalization functions across all states.
• CFM (Conselho Federal de Medicina): Brazilian Federal Medical Council — a larger, broader incumbent federal autarchy that regulates a different profession (medicine) using the same federal-state council structure, annual fee model and state-level regional councils (CRMs) as Crea-PB.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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