Achados e Pedidos, a partnership between Transparência Brasil and the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji), ended its activities last Saturday, January 31, 2026. The initiative operated for nine years and was consolidated as the largest repository of data on requests and responses to the Access to Information Law (LAI).

The project was born in 2017 with the aim of gathering valuable data obtained by journalists via the LAI, which was often restricted to those who requested it. Over the course of the project, the Achados e Pedidos platform has built up a collection of thousands of requests for access to information and the public administration’s responses – a veritable civic revolution in data.

Throughout its history, the initiative has fulfilled its mission of strengthening the culture of active transparency:

• Making more than 350,000 requests for information and responses available in a search that even reaches attachments such as spreadsheets and documents;

• Teaching more than 900 journalists and students from all over Brazil how to use the LAI, through four face-to-face courses and six online courses;

• Providing a chatbot to help users formulate appeals against the most frequent types of denial of requests for information, RepLAI;

• Distributing information obtained via LAI to more than 500 subscribers in 28 editions of its newsletter;

• Using artificial intelligence to identify the main themes of requests made to the Brazilian government, based on more than 10,000 requests for information;

• Show that the misuse of “100-year secrecy” as an argument for denying access to information grew between 2019 and 2024;

• Publish a guide for managers and civil servants on how to balance the LAI and the General Data Protection Law (LGPD);

• Publish seven surveys on transparency or from data obtained via the LAI in the socio-environmental area;

• Show that the Yanomami health budget was “strangled” between 2019 and 2024; among other actions.

The decision to close the project is due to the conclusion of the funding cycle needed to maintain the technological infrastructure and curation of the vast repository.

TB and Abraji would like to thank all the people who have registered requests for information and responses on the platform, and those who have consulted and used this material in reporting, research and exercising their rights. You have been essential to Achados e Pedidos’ mission of increasing public transparency in the country and providing an overview of implementation.