Payroll closed without the Sunday shift.
Klaus validates payroll, pays labor charges via Pix (Brazil's real-time payment system), reconciles with eSocial (Brazilian digital payroll/labor reporting system), and answers audits. Your HR team goes back to working with people, not spreadsheets.
Brazilian payroll is complex by design.
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20-100 CCTs (collective bargaining agreements) per year in large companies. 300-800 custom payroll line items. 12 eSocial events with thousands of error codes. FGTS Digital (severance fund) mandatory via Pix since March 2024. DCTFWeb (consolidated federal tax return) in production. Terminations with job stability rules, hour banks under Portaria 671, labor charges paid across 5 different rails.
One error in a line item cascades into million-reais assessments (INSS, FGTS, IRRF via DCTFWeb). A late termination triggers an art. 477 fine.
- Payroll errors cost up to 1.2% of total payroll (Deloitte)
- 20-100 CCTs/year in multi-union enterprises
- 2,000+ eSocial error codes
Six automation fronts.
Front 1 — Close with anomaly detection
Klaus validates 100% of line items before the bank file goes out. Anomalous overtime, wrong night-shift premium, skewed averages — all detected and explained in plain language.
Front 2 — CCTs read automatically
Upload the CCT PDF. Klaus maps clauses to payroll items, simulates downstream effects, and applies retroactive union-adjustment pay.
Front 3 — Labor charges on autopilot
FGTS Digital via Pix, DARF for DCTFWeb, IRRF, INSS. Klaus reads the closed charge, validates it against payroll, and executes payment with your approval.
Front 4 — eSocial without endless rework
Rejections handled with root cause in plain Portuguese. Corrections that respect S-1010 → S-1200 → S-1299 dependencies.
Front 5 — Complex terminations
Job-stability checks, average calculations, payment via FGTS Digital with Pix, and art. 477 fine prevention.
Front 6 — Audit response
Automatic evidence collection, citations of TRT/TST precedents, defense drafted on deadline.
What customers are reporting.
- 40% fewer data-entry errors
- 60-80% less time on reviews
- 90% automation in labor-charge payments
- Zero art. 477 fines
- 70-80% less time in CCT parameterization
- 30-50% lower assessment values with grounded defense
Manufacturer with 1,200 CLT (standard Brazilian labor contract) employees across 4 states.
Before
- 4 people on payroll, 2 on labor charges
- 5-day close, with overtime
- 3-5 labor audit assessments per year
- FGTS Digital paid late 2 out of 12 months
After (6 months with Klaus)
- Same 4 people on payroll, now doing real analysis
- 1-day close, no overtime
- 0 assessments in the last 6 months
- FGTS Digital on time, 100% of months
- Union adjustment applied retroactively in 1 day
Stack involved
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- Klaus (lead agent)
- Kelly (integrated labor-charge payment)
- Klaudinho (Q&A and reporting)
- HCM (Senior, TOTVS, LG, Sólides, etc.)
- eSocial, FGTS Digital, DCTFWeb, eCAC
- CNAB 240 (Brazilian bank file format), Pix, Dataprev/CNIS
- Mediador/MTE, unions
Onboarding
See the full Klaus onboarding → /en/agents/klaus#onboarding
FAQ
Does it replace my HCM (Senior, TOTVS, LG)?+
No. Klaus runs on top — it treats the HCM as the system of record for payroll and orchestrates everything around it.
Does it work with multi-CCT payroll?+
Yes, including complex retroactive union adjustments.
Does it answer labor audits?+
Yes, it builds a grounded defense with evidence. We still recommend a labor attorney for the most critical cases.