Method
How we verify
You are buying one claim: that you will not miss a change, and that you will not be told something false. This is how it is kept.
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We keep a list of the pages that carry the rules
Each official page is tied to the topics it answers — an income threshold, a fee, a document list, a deadline. A page is on the list because something an agency sells depends on it.
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We read them on a fixed rhythm
Every page is read on a schedule and the day it was read is recorded. A page that was not read is never presented as though it had been.
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We compare each reading with the copy we saved
The previous reading of every page is kept. Today's reading is compared with it, word for word, so a difference is found rather than remembered.
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A page that was only restyled is not a change
Most days nothing has moved. A new banner, a reordered menu or a rebuilt template does not become an alert — that is how a warning from us keeps its meaning.
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When the wording that carries a rule moves, a person reads it
If a figure moves, or the sentence stating a requirement disappears, someone reads the difference, decides what it means for the products you sell, and writes it up in English and Portuguese with the official page cited and the date it takes effect where the source states one.
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Nothing reaches you until it is confirmed on an official source
Everything we publish carries how sure we are of it and the date it was last verified. What is not yet verified is held back and counted, never quietly published.
The limits, stated
A gap we admit is worth more than a number we are confident about and wrong.
- A page we could not reach is reported as unreachable, together with what covered it in the meantime. Saying nothing about a gap is worse than the gap.
- A figure we cannot read from an official page is left blank, with the open question stated. We do not fill it from memory, from a pattern, or from a competitor's website.
- Press and professional commentary are never a citation. They are a reason to go and look at the official page, and nothing more.
- When two official publishers state different values for the same figure, we say so and name the one that owns it, instead of choosing one in silence.
50 official pages, last read 2026-09-15. 2 could not be read that day; every one of them was covered by another source. The last material change we recorded was 2026-09-15.
That is the whole method. What it is applied to — every lane we cover, and what we deliberately do not — is on the coverage page. What we check →