Closing payroll in Brazil isn’t just hard — it’s expensive.

A knot of rules, spreadsheets, and manual processes costs the Brazilian economy tens of billions of reais every year.

Just with payroll services, nearly R$ 18 billion are spent fixing mistakes and putting out fires instead of driving innovation.

Over 700,000 people are stuck in repetitive tasks within fragmented systems. Thousands of BPOs still operate in analog mode — at the center of a machine that runs with delay and noise.

Meanwhile, companies keep overpaying for poor services, high SLAs, and negative NPS — while leaders are left in the dark, with critical data always out of place.

The root of the problem is payroll — the heart of any company’s operation, yet still treated as a secondary process, even though it supports decision-making across every team: from the CEO to HR, Legal to Finance.

When this foundation fails, the impact spreads.

A delayed close becomes a wrong payment, which becomes a fine, which becomes rework. It’s like compound interest — but against the company: with each unresolved cycle, costs increase, trust drops, and chaos becomes the norm.

In the meantime, entire teams waste days reviewing spreadsheets and trying to figure out what went wrong — instead of moving the business forward.

Today, that changes. We present Tako Agents: AI truly applied to people operations.

Unlike chatbots or passive systems, Tako Agents combine specialized applications with large language models (LLMs) to interpret rules, act autonomously, and learn with every interaction.

They review entries, validate compliance, flag risks, and answer questions like “Who’s eligible for the bonus?” or “How much did the sales team cost in July?” — all with traceability and precision.

What do Tako Agents actually do?

Here are real examples from companies using Tako:

1. Payroll Closing

• The base is solid: calculations are done with deterministic code, aligned with legislation and business rules.
• The agent works around this: interpreting union agreements, internal policies, and atypical entries to flag exceptions and risks.
• It points out inconsistencies in real time, such as off-policy bonuses or incoherent deductions.
• Generates clear reports, explanations, and summaries ready for review.

2. Review and Compliance

• Audits payroll with contextual understanding: cross-checks what was calculated, agreed upon, and recorded with what the law demands.
• Identifies compliance risks and points out where and why something might be off.
• Connects payroll and contracts with precision, acting as a smart, preventive audit layer.

3. Natural Language Queries

• You ask: “Who’s eligible for the bonus this month?” or “How much did sales cost in July?”
• The agent understands, searches the right sources, and replies with clarity and traceability — explaining the data source and applied rule.
• Faster answers for the team — with full context and confidence.

4. Autonomy with Safety

• Operates independently in interpretive and operational tasks: reads contracts, identifies patterns, flags errors, generates reports, answers questions.
• Knows when to act solo and when to involve humans in critical decisions.
• Learns from every interaction — becoming more precise, faster, and even more helpful over time.

Tako Agents become that teammate everyone wants: never forgets, masters the details, and stays one step ahead of what you haven’t even seen yet.

How does it work?

You connect your data: payroll, contracts, policies, time records — and the agents get to work.

They operate on a solid foundation: a robust payroll engine with the right data in the right place.

That’s what enables a seamless, reliable experience and increasingly intelligent agents — with more context and precision.

Tako is the most powerful people operations infrastructure, combining AI, data, and applications built on top of payroll.

The results come fast

Errors flagged. Tasks executed. Questions answered.
In minutes, the agents are already working.
In hours, the difference is visible.
In days, you wonder how you ever operated without them.

Best part?

Tako can replace legacy systems — or run on top of what your company already uses.
This flexibility means you can start fast, create impact in the first cycle, and scale with confidence — in companies of any size.

What’s next?

This is just the first agent, already transforming how companies run their people operations. But more are coming:

• Payslip Agent for employees
• Hiring & Journey Agent
• Compliance Agent
• Payments & Charges Agent
• Internal Policies & Benefits Agent

All with the same principle: less friction, more flow.

A Brazil without knots starts here.
Tako Agents do for payroll what Pix did for money: eliminate friction, cut costs, and return power and freedom to the people.

Our ambition at Tako is to amplify the human spirit by enabling invention and creativity — removing repetitive work that suffocates the soul.

We unleash the potential of Brazilian companies, setting them free to focus on innovation and impact. These new agents are just the beginning.