SÃO PAULO, April 2026 — Brazil generates 2.5 million new labor litigation cases per year, adding to 5 million already existing cases. The numbers are alarming and deter investment for an obvious reason: billions of reais spent annually on labor lawsuits and a system that processes more than 2 million new cases per year. Attentive to this structural bottleneck in the Brazilian market, Tako announces the launch of Tako Legal, an intelligence and resolution platform for labor litigation.
Tako Legal is powered by Tako's proprietary technology — a knowledge base built on the full body of Brazilian labor legislation and case law, enhanced by an AI agent system that has already processed over 2 billion reais in payroll. The platform returns control of litigation strategy to companies, provides immediate access to internal evidence and allows them to anticipate and prevent future labor risks. Another differentiator is consolidating, in a single system, the complete timeline of each employee within the company, from onboarding to termination.
Today, companies receive hundreds of labor claims per month and rely on law firms that produce generic filings, without using internal evidence and without developing thorough defenses. Legal departments cannot evaluate the quality of defenses, accumulating risks, costly settlements and a growing liability.
Tako Legal changes this scenario by using AI to analyze each case based on the relevant TRT's case law and the company's actual evidence, such as time records, payroll data and eSocial records. The platform generates technically sound defenses and provides a risk assessment for each case, enabling more strategic and efficient decisions.
"The shift for legal leadership is profound. The department stops managing a high volume of filings scattered across multiple firms and starts managing aggregate labor financial risk. Before even opening a document, the platform has already flagged vulnerabilities and issued recommendations, including when the best decision is to evaluate a settlement before contesting," says Sebastian Mejia, co-founder of Tako. "Over time, the consolidated data from all lawsuits and people operations reveals which failures are generating the liability and allows the company to correct the problems at the root," adds Fernando Gadotti, co-founder and CEO of Tako.
Tako's mission is to bring applied AI to Brazilian companies, comprehensively managing the company's relationship with its employees while connecting complex HR and operations systems into a single platform. Tako Legal embodies this mission and stands out for the way Tako develops and applies AI, backed by its proprietary knowledge base built specifically for the Brazilian labor universe.
"Every large company has the evidence to win more cases than it wins and can reduce its legal costs. The problem is that this evidence is trapped in systems that law firms never access. The proprietary knowledge base masters the legislation and Tako accesses the evidence, connecting companies' HR and operations systems to quickly locate everything that matters. The result is less dependency on external law firms, more cases won, precise understanding of risks and, over time, a company capable of correcting at the root the causes of its liability," emphasizes Mejia.
Tako Legal was built for companies handling more than 2,000 active labor lawsuits per year that need to coordinate multiple external firms. The platform is now available and is set to transform how labor litigation is conducted in Brazil. Those interested in learning more can request a free 30-day pilot at tako.ai/products/tako-legal or directly with Tako's commercial team.
Customer FAQ
1. What is Tako Legal?
It is an intelligence and resolution platform for high-volume labor litigation, powered by Otto, Tako's proprietary knowledge base on Brazilian labor legislation and payroll rules. Designed for companies handling thousands of lawsuits per year, Tako Legal inverts the current logic: instead of outsourcing strategy and drafting to firms that deliver generic filings over weeks, Tako Legal cross-references case data with the prevailing case law from the specific TRT and the company's internal evidence, generating a high-quality technical defense brief in under five minutes and supporting the company to make operational changes across how they manage people to reduce liability and risk.
2. We already send our cases to large volume firms. Why change?
Because the traditional model is slow, expensive, and blind. And because the incentives are misaligned. The company sends the initial claim to the firm, waits up to three weeks and pays roughly R$2,000 in fees for a draft defense that is often generic and built without access to time records, payroll data, or the employee's operational history. The firm gets paid regardless of quality. The General Counsel approves out of lack of alternatives or deadline pressure. Nobody is accountable for the outcome. With Tako Legal, control returns in-house. A case that would cost days and thousands of reais has its technical defense generated in five minutes, with internal evidence already incorporated. Tako gets paid by delivering results.
3. How is Tako Legal different from generic AI copilots in the legal market?
Generic copilots help lawyers type faster but don't understand the engineering of your liability or the operations of your company. They are also built from vast scrappings of the internet, without carefully curated sources of knowledge, including private sources that only Tako has access to. Lastly, Tako's taxonomy allows a perfect reference of the answers to the law at the article and paragraph level.
Tako Legal is powered by Otto, which has native, deep intelligence in payroll rules and labor laws. It's not a language model trained on generic legal texts. Furthermore, Otto connects the specific Prevailing Thesis from that specific Regional Labor Court. Tako Legal then connects directly with your company's internal evidence, whether from the payroll system, time tracking, management or eSocial. The defense is built from the company's operational reality.
Lastly, Tako Legal helps companies identify operational changes to reduce liabilities and risks.
4. How does the platform build arguments using my company's data in practice?
The platform ties the legal argument to operational reality. For example: in a standby pay claim at TRT-9, Otto identifies that Prevailing Thesis #12 defeats this argument, automatically pulls from your time tracking system the 11 extra hours worked for that employee and inserts this cross-referenced evidence directly into the defense brief. The filing is born armored with your company's own proof. This happens for every claim, in every lawsuit, cross-referencing local case law with real data.
5. Does the General Counsel still have to read the entire filing to know if the company is at risk?
No. One of Tako Legal's greatest values is pre-filing risk visibility and having a summary of each case. The General Counsel stops managing paper and starts managing financial risk.
6. Does the platform only benefit the Legal Department?
No, and this is the most relevant long-term differentiator. Because Tako Legal consolidates data from all labor lawsuits, it enables root cause analysis across thousands of cases, something individual law firms, each seeing only their slice of the panel, cannot do. The platform delivers to the HR and Operations leadership a consolidated risk portfolio which is relevant for CFOs and CEOs. The company comes to understand exactly which failures in people management processes (time tracking errors, payroll calculation mistakes, management practices) are generating the lawsuits, allowing them to fix the problem at its root and reduce future liability by up to 15% over 24 months.
7. Who is Tako Legal built for?
Tako Legal is designed for companies with more than 2,000 active labor lawsuits per year, typically with labor-intensive operations. The typical client is a company whose General Counsel manages a panel of multiple external firms, cannot audit the quality of each individual filing, and is losing money on settlements and judgments due to weak arguments or evidence the firm never accessed.
8. How do you prove the platform actually works?
Through a 30-day pilot with real data and success criteria defined before it begins. The company selects 100 cases from its active base. Tako Legal processes each case and delivers the complete defense briefs. The General Counsel compares, side by side, with what the outsourced firm produced for the same cases. Evaluation is conducted across three dimensions: technical quality of the case law foundation, accuracy in the use of the company's internal evidence, and time and cost of production. Acceptance criteria are agreed upon in advance with the client so that the decision at the end of the pilot is objective.