Orion handles that part. It reads your case's official docket, tells you what stage it is in, whether it is moving or stuck, translates what was published into plain language, and tells you on its own when something new comes out. This is information, not defence: Orion informs, translates and reminds — defending, advising and signing is your lawyer's job.
What you need
Just the case number: the 20 digits on the court paper or in your lawyer's message. With dots and dashes or as bare digits — either works.
If you get a digit wrong, it does not silently fetch some other case: the number carries a check digit, so Orion catches the error and even tells you what the correct number would be for that sequence.
How to ask
In the WhatsApp conversation, the way you would ask a person:
- "How is my court case doing?"
- "Did anything happen in case 5106223-45.2021.8.13.0024?"
- "Has the judge ruled yet?"
- "I'm being sued — what now?"
It answers with what matters: which stage the case is in along its journey, how many days since anything happened, how many rulings came out in the past year, and what the latest ones were.
One detail changes everything: a real case piles up hundreds of lines, and the overwhelming majority are routine — filings logged, records forwarded, case sent to the judge. Orion knows the difference between a ruling and paperwork, and shows you only what actually decided something. In a five-year-old case with 130 docket entries, that usually comes down to fewer than ten lines you need to see.
"But what does that mean?"
That is the question nobody answers. The text published in the official gazette is written by lawyers for lawyers.
Ask: "what does this publication mean?" — and Orion translates it. It says what happened, who asked for what, whether it requires action, whose deadline it is and by when. It copies amounts exactly as written, doesn't soften anything (a "hearing" doesn't become a "meeting") and doesn't flip the sides — whoever is collecting stays the one collecting.
Being told without asking
The best use isn't asking. It's not having to ask.
Say "track this case" and give it a nickname — "the supplier lawsuit". From then on Orion checks on its own, every day, and talks to you when a new ruling or publication comes out. You never have to open the court website again.
It checks two sources at once, because they don't show the same thing: the official docket is where a ruling appears first, and the gazette is where its text lives. A case can be served by court officer, by letter or through the court's own portal, and none of that passes through the gazette — hence both.
The nickname isn't decoration. It's how you ask later: "and the supplier one, did it move?"
To stop: "stop tracking the supplier one". To see what it watches: "which cases are you tracking?"
The monthly note — even when nothing happened
A case can go months with nothing meaningful. That's normal, but from where you sit, "nothing happened in my case" and "Orion stopped working" are the same experience: no message.
So if about a month goes by without it speaking to you about a tracked case, it sends a summary anyway: I checked, it's at this stage, there was this much routine activity, and nothing needed you. Silence turns into information.
By voice, in the app
It works the same out loud. You can ask "how is the supplier lawsuit doing?" and hear the answer — no need to dictate 20 digits, because the nickname is enough once tracking is on.
To turn on a new tracking by voice, it will need the number. It repeats the digits it understood and waits for you to confirm before saving.
Where this lives
In both places, with the same information: in the WhatsApp conversation (and by voice in the app), and in the Court cases box inside your Orion on the web — which shows the full timeline, the complete text of each publication, and the parties and lawyers with their bar numbers.
What it does not do
This is the most important part of this page.
- It is not your lawyer and gives no legal advice. It won't say whether you'll win, how much you'll get, or whether a settlement is worth taking. When you ask that, it phrases the right question for you to take to your lawyer.
- It does not manage appeal deadlines. Procedural deadlines are your lawyer's responsibility. Orion tells you a publication came out; it does not count the clock for you.
- It does not log into the case with your password. It reads what is public: the cover data, the docket, and what was published in the official gazette. Filings, attached documents and the claim amount require logging in as a party or lawyer — and it never asks for your password.
- It does not open sealed cases. If a case is under seal, it refuses and explains why, even if you are a party to it.
The limits, said plainly
- Courts covered: State courts (all of them), Federal courts, Labour courts, and the two high courts (STF and STJ). Electoral and Military courts not yet.
- Criminal matters: the product was designed for civil and labour cases. If the case is criminal, it warns you that the journey reading does not describe that kind of case well.
- Brazil's national electronic gazette only exists from 2023 onward. Anything published before that may have no text available — the docket is still complete, just with no text to translate.
- Not everything goes through the gazette. Service by court officer, by letter or through the court portal shows up in the docket, not in the gazette.
- Translating docket entries: Orion uses the CNJ's official code table. When it hits a code it doesn't know yet, it tells you the percentage it managed to translate instead of pretending it understood everything.
- 50 lookups per day per account. Automatic tracking does not consume that limit.