A NIF costs nothing at Finanças. Companies were charging newcomers 150 and more for it, every year. We did not get it, so we built the version we would have wanted ourselves: honest, quick, and with a lot of fun along the way.
Runs the company and makes sure 39.99 stays 39.99. If a promise on this page is ever broken, it is his inbox.
Advogada, Ordem dos Advogados n.º 58735L. Files every application herself and picks up when Finanças has a question.
Built the part that reads your document so you never type it, and the page that shows our real processing times.
Reads every support thread, writes the guides, and keeps the application down to six minutes.
We are friends first. We cook together, argue about commas in a power of attorney, and spend more weekends on this than any business plan would recommend.
Finanças does not charge a cent for a tax number. Yet newcomers are routinely charged 150 and more for the paperwork, plus a renewal fee every year for as long as nobody tells them to cancel.
We think that is wrong, and we think it is beatable: with software that does the typing, a lawyer who does the filing, and a price that does not move.
If you want a human side to all of this, it is us. We put a lot of our own time into Coepi because we believe it should exist, and because we remember our own first weeks in a new country.
Latin, first person, perfect tense: "I began". It is the word for the moment after the decision, when the boxes are packed and the first form is in front of you. We wanted the company to be named after that moment, not after a tax code.