Official source
Monitoring starts with the Judiciary's Unified National Case Lookup and keeps the reference to the case that was checked.
Colombia · court monitoring
Your Rama Judicial cases, checked every night and explained with AI
Custodio checks the CPNU every night for each case you register, flags new docket entries and the AI updates where the matter stands, with the source behind every statement. At 6:30 a.m. you get a single email with what changed. Free account, no card.
The problem
The lookup is free and public. What it does not do is notify you.
The Judiciary's Unified National Case Lookup charges nothing, asks for no account, and returns a case's status from its 23-digit filing number. What it does not do is look for you: if the court registers a docket entry on Monday, it is still sitting there on Friday, just as new and just as unread.
With twenty open cases or a hundred, checking every filing number by hand every day is not sustainable, and the day you skip is the day it matters. Custodio runs that lookup for you, every day, for every case you have registered.
From filing number to a verifiable update
The official lookup remains the source. Custodio organizes its results so reviewing a portfolio does not mean opening every case by hand.
Changes made visible
The update highlights docket entries added since your last review so you know where to focus.
A portfolio, not a browser tab
Cases are organized by matter and client, with owners and dates, instead of being scattered across manual lookups.
AI backed by evidence
Summaries and answers rely on matter documents and docket entries; you can return to the evidence behind them.
How it works
From the Judiciary to your inbox, every day
You register the filing number
Add the case's 23-digit filing number, or import it from a matter you already keep in Custodio.
Daily monitoring
Custodio checks the Unified National Case Lookup every night, at 2:00 a.m. Bogotá time.
It spots what is new
It compares the lookup with the day before and flags only the docket entries that changed, with their date and description.
The AI updates the matter's state
With the new docket entry, Custodio evaluates the whole matter again: where it stands, what the last material change was and what is still pending, with the evidence behind every assertion. And your questions are answered over the matter's documents, citing the one each answer comes from.
Scope
What Custodio watches in Colombia
Every point has a country capability behind it, not a loose promise.
Daily lookup of the Judiciary's Unified National Case Lookup (CPNU), with the 23-digit filing number as the case identifier.
Search by person or business name when you do not have the full filing number yet.
Monitoring of judicial notices and status updates — the edict channel the Judiciary also publishes — in addition to the case-file lookup.
Procedural-deadline computation on the Colombian business-day calendar, with the country's own deadline rules.
Filing-number format validation before it is saved, so a mistyped number is never watched.
Custodio shows what the Judiciary publishes for the case looked up. It does not access sealed files or information the court does not publish. Nor does it automatically monitor the labor cases handled in the SIUGJ — the labor specialty has filed new cases there since 2023 and the national lookup does not reflect them: when a labor filing number does not appear, Custodio says so and links the SIUGJ's public search.
Price
Free to start, no charge per case watched
You create the account without a card: the free plan includes 15 open matters, with the daily check and the AI within its monthly allowance, and it stays free. On paid plans, court monitoring is billed together with the rest of Custodio: there is no separate charge per case watched.
See pricingQuestions about monitoring in Colombia
Which source does Custodio check?
The Colombian Judiciary's Unified National Case Lookup. The official source remains authoritative for the case status.
How often are cases checked?
Once a day: the check runs every night at 2:00 a.m. Bogotá time, for every open case with a radicado. What's new shows up in the bell and, at 6:30 a.m., in a single email with the updates for all your cases.
Do I need the filing number?
It is the most precise identifier. CPNU also supports searches by person or business name, but a full filing number reduces ambiguous results.
Which law governs the data in my portfolio?
Ley 1581 de 2012. You sign the processing agreement that law requires, your firm’s data stays separate from every other firm’s, and a query or claim arriving through the public channel is handled under the terms the law sets, counted on the Colombian calendar.
Does Custodio also check Tyba?
No. Custodio checks the Judiciary's Unified National Case Lookup. Tyba's public lookup sits behind a reCAPTCHA and is not read automatically today. Nor the SIUGJ, where the labor specialty has handled its new cases since 2023: its public search also requires a reCAPTCHA, so those labor cases stay outside automatic monitoring and Custodio says so on the matter.
Does Custodio compute the case's deadlines?
Yes, on the Colombian business-day calendar and the country's deadline rules. The computation is a monitoring aid and does not replace the case lawyer's own judgment.
Stop checking cases one by one
Create your free account, register a radicado and see what Custodio finds in the first check. No card.