Brazilian tax obligations inside the same system where your operation lives — NF-e already prepared for the Tax Reform, national NFS-e and eSocial, with NFC-e, CT-e and SPED in validation. Architecture designed for other countries.
⎯ All operate with an institution-specific digital certificate, with cryptographic protection for private keys.
§01 · WHY NATIVE
In conventional ERP, fiscal compliance lives in a separate module, often developed by a third party, with its own update cycle and integration points that fail exactly when regulations change. Operational audit lives in one system, fiscal audit in another — and they never reconcile.
Aether treats compliance as part of the core. Each regulatory obligation is a plugin developed in the same versioning system, with the same level of governance and the same audit standard as the rest of the platform. In homologation today, this capability is proven in Brazil — the architecture was designed to extend with the same rigor to other jurisdictions.
CONVENTIONAL APPROACH
AETHER APPROACH
The practical result is that when the tax authority publishes a change, the update does not depend on coordination with an external vendor. And when the auditor requests cross-tracing, the answer is a query — not a project.
§02 · PORTFOLIO IN HOMOLOGATION
Each plugin operates with active integration to the corresponding federal, state, or municipal authorities. Closed list of what is in homologation — no projected items.
Fiscal document for product transactions between companies, with direct transmission to state authorities.
SCOPE
Interstate
DOMAIN
Billing
Fiscal document for point of sale, with contingency support when transmission is unavailable.
SCOPE
State
DOMAIN
Point of sale
Fiscal document for logistics operations, covering the main transport modes.
SCOPE
Interstate
DOMAIN
Logistics
Service fiscal document via the National System, with municipal integration.
SCOPE
Municipal
DOMAIN
Service
EFD ICMS/IPI and EFD Contributions. Generation, validation, and verification of bookkeeping records.
SCOPE
Federal
DOMAIN
Bookkeeping
Unified labor and social security obligation, covering periodic and non-periodic events.
SCOPE
Federal
DOMAIN
Labor
Education sector obligation with integration to the authority responsible for the annual collection.
SCOPE
Sector-specific
DOMAIN
Education
Electronic agronomic prescription per Law 14.785/2023, with traceability and verification.
SCOPE
Sector-specific
DOMAIN
Agribusiness
Each plugin operates with an institution-specific digital certificate, with cryptographic protection for private keys. Rotation and expiration monitored by the platform, with advance alerts before expiry.
§03 · THE ARCHITECTURE BEHIND
The platform treats compliance as a controlled extension. Each plugin operates within the same audit, permission, and isolation umbrella as the rest of the system.
Each plugin automatically inherits the same data isolation, permissions and audit as the rest of the platform.
Each obligation operates in its own data scope. An update to NF-e does not touch SPED. A migration in CT-e does not affect eSocial.
Each institution-scoped table within the plugins inherits the same isolation policies as the rest of the platform — nothing falls outside the audit umbrella.
A plugin can be installed, activated, deactivated, and uninstalled with transactional integrity — without leaving orphaned state in the database or the interface.
Each plugin exposes its public interface; the platform consolidates audit, permissions, and reports — external integration speaks to a single layer.
§04 · JURISDICTIONS
Transparency about coverage: distinguishing operational capability from architectural extensibility is part of the contract with whoever reads this page.
Eight active plugins operating with real integration to the corresponding federal, state, and municipal authorities. Cross-audit, institution-specific digital certificate, updates tracking official publications.
The architecture was designed with the concept of a plugin associated with a country from the start. Adding compliance for another market is a natural extension — not a platform refactor.
Operationally, no international plugin implementation is in homologation today. Any expansion horizon is handled with a specific strategic partner — not as a published schedule with dates.
Extensible architecture is not a promise of implementation. No plugin is mentioned as coming soon without having effectively entered homologation.
§05 · WHAT THE CFO WANTS TO KNOW
Direct answers, no hedging. If the answer depends on context, it says so.
The cycle depends on the criticality of the note and the scope of the change. The architecture supports updates without downtime for the entire platform — the affected plugin updates in isolation, without forcing the rest of the operation to stop.
The platform monitors certificate validity per institution and alerts before expiration. The operator rotates without losing fiscal history — the signed trail remains intact and auditable.
Yes. Each issuance leaves a trace on the same immutable timeline that the operational audit uses. Who issued, when, and what the payload was is a query through the interface — not a ticket to the DBA.
The plugin records the rejection, explains the reason, preserves the operation state, and signals through Nous if the rejection has a recurring pattern suggesting a root cause — for the operator to fix before the next cycle.
None of the answers above substitutes the taxpayer's legal responsibility for the fiscal operation. The platform's scope is technical: execution, tracking, audit, and integration with the authorities.
§06 · SECTOR OBLIGATIONS
When the client operates in a vertical with an obligation not covered today, the plugin architecture allows dedicated development — often as part of a partnership program with a vertical software house in that domain.
Federal school census. Annual collection of data on schools, enrollments, classes, and education professionals, with integration to the responsible authority.
Electronic agronomic prescription per Law 14.785/2023. Digital prescription, traceability, and QR Code verification.
If your vertical has an obligation not listed here, the plugin architecture allows specific development with the same governance and audit standard. This work typically happens in partnership with a software house that specializes in the vertical.
§07 · NEXT STEP
Three questions guide the diagnosis. The conversation is with someone from Aether's technical team and your fiscal lead.
Which obligations does your company issue today — and with which tool?
Which integration points between fiscal and operational fail in your routine?
Is there a sector-specific obligation that requires particular handling?