CGA Law reconstructs a company's current corporate standing from its deeds, shareholder minutes and powers of attorney, and delivers a legal opinion with every figure traced back to its folio. Processing happens on our own infrastructure, in Mexico.
Before extending credit, every financial institution has to review a company's corporate governance: the incorporation deed, the chain of amendments, the shareholder meetings, and every power of attorney granted or revoked since. That means dozens of instruments and hundreds of folios. The reading is entirely manual today, senior lawyers do it, and the criteria shift depending on who did it.
per company, between locating the instruments, reading them and drafting the opinion.
MXN in fees per opinion, depending on how long the corporate chain runs.
A bank that clears three hundred companies a month spends around $1.5 million pesos2 a month reading paper.
It is the first thing anyone asks: if the model can already read, why not just upload the PDFs. Because a corporate instrument carries shareholder data, tax IDs and powers, protected by the duty of professional secrecy that Article 210 of Mexico's Federal Criminal Code makes a criminal offense to breach, and by the LFPDPPP. Uploading it to a third party's API breaches that duty, contract in place or not.
| Option | Where the documents travel | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Upload them to GPT or Copilot | To a third party's servers, outside Mexico and outside your control. | A non-starter |
| Azure with a data processing agreement | They still transit through Microsoft. The contract allocates liability, it does not stop the transit. | Not enough |
| CGA Law | They never leave. Inference runs inside the perimeter and no third party sees a single folio. | Compliant by architecture |
Which is why the product is not a model with a good prompt: it is the whole stack running on our own hardware, the expensive part, the one nobody wants to build.
The expensive mistake is almost never one of reading, it is one of chronology. A power granted in 2017 looks impeccable in its own deed, and the meeting that revoked it four years later sits in a different instrument, before a different notary, two hundred folios away. Anyone reviewing document by document never gets to see the contradiction. CGA Law resolves the full chain before it opines on anything.
We call this temporal consolidation and it is the part of the system we built ourselves. OCR and extraction are known engineering and there are ten ways to do them; reconstructing what still stands after twenty years of meetings, amendments and revocations is not.
A document with the company's current standing: capital and shareholders, governing body, corporate purpose, and the matrix of powers with their scope and limits. Every figure carries its source: deed, date, notary and folio. This is the powers-of-attorney section.
| Attorney-in-fact | Scope and limits | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Pérez Pérez | Acts of administration, no limit. Credit instruments up to $5,000,000. Opening and closing of bank accounts. |
IN FORCE | Deed 00,001 · folio 00 2019 · Notary 00, Mexico City |
| María López López | Acts of ownership, no limit. Revoked by extraordinary meeting in 2021. |
REVOKED | Deed 00,002 · folio 00 revocation in Deed 00,003 |
| Pedro Ramírez Ramírez | Acts of administration, no limit. Joint with Pérez Pérez above $5,000,000. Granting of guarantees: not expressly stated. |
IN FORCE | Deed 00,003 · folio 00 2021 · Notary 00, Mexico City |
Sample excerpt: company, people, deeds and folios are all placeholders. Client files never leave their perimeter, not even for sales material.
All inference runs on servers owned by CGA Law, in a Tier III datacenter in Mexico. Documents enter the perimeter, are processed there, and the opinion comes out of there. There is no outbound call in the path, and no vendor whose retention policy you have to audit.
Against a lawyer reading by hand, coverage ties at 100%. What changes is the hours, and that the criteria stop shifting between reviewers.
We process a real batch from your institution alongside your manual process, and you compare the two opinions side by side.