Dili
by Dili
AI-powered prevailing wage and certified payroll compliance for federally funded infrastructure projects
Dili is an AI compliance platform for federally funded U.S. construction, energy and manufacturing projects. It automates Davis-Bacon prevailing wage review, certified payroll validation and apprenticeship ratio tracking, cutting a compliance task that took seven-plus hours a week down to under five minutes. It is built for EPC contractors, developers protecting federal tax credits, and the tax-equity investors who diligence them.
Dili is an AI compliance platform for federally funded U.S. construction, energy, manufacturing and infrastructure projects, automating the prevailing-wage and apprenticeship obligations that attach to Davis-Bacon work and to Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy tax credits. Its architecture is deliberately hybrid: large language models handle only the data layer, converting unstructured certified payroll — WH-347 forms, state variants, PDFs, Excel and CSV exports — into structured records, after which a deterministic rules engine applies static wage determinations and ratio tests, so no probabilistic model touches the final compliance verdict. Modules cover certified payroll review, wage determination sourced live from SAM.gov, apprentice-to-journeyman ratio tracking against the RAPIDS registered-apprenticeship system, an AI audit engine that flags underpayments and worker misclassification line by line, subcontractor network monitoring, audit-ready reporting, and compliance training delivered by former Department of Labor and EPC compliance staff. Dili ingests multi-format payroll, calculates fringe benefits and backpay automatically, covers wage rates across all 50 states and their counties, integrates with ADP, Acumatica and roughly 50 other systems, and exposes an open API. Founded in 2023 out of Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and based in New York City, the company raised a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures in July 2026 — with Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures' Darren Bechtel and Y Combinator's Garry Tan participating — bringing total funding to $21.7 million. At the raise it reported operating across more than 700 projects, checking over $1.4 billion in wages and 5.2 million labor hours across nearly 16,000 certified payroll reports, and reducing weekly review from seven-plus hours to under five minutes per organization.
The compliance lead at an EPC contractor or clean-energy developer whose federal funding or IRA tax credits are contingent on Davis-Bacon prevailing wage and apprenticeship documentation across a large subcontractor network.
Every certified payroll line is checked automatically against live wage determinations instead of sampled by hand, turning a seven-hour weekly review into roughly five minutes and surfacing underpayments before an auditor does.
At a Glance
- Category
- Industry & Government
- Pricing
- Contact for pricing, Subscription
- Target Market
- CIOs, CFOs, Compliance Officers, Construction Executives, Project Developers, Tax Equity Investors
- Deployment
- Cloud-only
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Team Size
- 11-50
- Customers
- 700+ projects across EPC contractors, developers and compliance contractors
Key Features
- ✓Certified Payroll Review
Ingests WH-347 and state payroll forms in PDF, Excel or CSV and validates every line against applicable prevailing wage requirements automatically.
- ✓Live Wage Determination via SAM.gov
Pulls current prevailing wage rates directly from SAM.gov across all 50 states and counties so rules never run against stale rate tables.
- ✓Deterministic Compliance Engine
LLMs only structure the documents; a rules engine applies static compliance logic, so the final pass-or-fail verdict is reproducible rather than probabilistic.
- ✓Apprenticeship Ratio Tracking
Monitors apprentice-to-journeyman ratios and registered apprenticeship hours against RAPIDS, the requirement that gates many Inflation Reduction Act credits.
- ✓AI Audit Engine
Analyzes payroll line by line to surface underpayments, worker misclassification and missing fringe benefits, and calculates the backpay owed.
- ✓Subcontractor Network Monitoring
Gives a general contractor real-time visibility into compliance status across every subcontractor on a project, not just its own workforce.
- ✓Audit-Ready Reporting
Generates documentation packages for auditors, lenders and tax-equity investors with a full trail behind each finding and remediation.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Protecting IRA clean-energy tax credits
A solar or storage developer proves apprenticeship and prevailing wage compliance continuously so the project's Investment Tax Credit adder survives later scrutiny.
- •Weekly certified payroll review at scale
A compliance team replaces a seven-plus-hour manual sampling exercise with an automated full-population check completed in about five minutes.
- •General contractor subcontractor oversight
An EPC firm monitors dozens of subcontractors on a federally funded data center build and catches wage violations before they become project-level liabilities.
- •Tax-equity and lender diligence
An investor verifies wage and apprenticeship compliance across a portfolio of projects without commissioning a separate manual audit for each one.
- •Backpay and misclassification remediation
The audit engine identifies underpaid workers and misclassified trades, quantifies the exposure, and produces the correction record regulators expect.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓EPC contractors tracking Davis-Bacon prevailing wage compliance across large subcontractor networks
- ✓Clean-energy developers protecting Inflation Reduction Act tax credits that hinge on apprenticeship and wage requirements
- ✓Certified payroll review and WH-347 validation for federally funded construction and manufacturing projects
- ✓Apprentice-to-journeyman ratio monitoring against registered apprenticeship program data
- ✓Tax-equity investors running compliance diligence across a portfolio of infrastructure projects
- ✓Compliance contractors who deliver prevailing wage review as an outsourced service
Not Ideal For
- ✗Contractors working purely private, non-federally-funded projects — the entire product is built around Davis-Bacon, IRA and state prevailing wage regimes that simply do not apply
- ✗Organizations outside the United States, since wage determinations, RAPIDS apprenticeship data and SAM.gov integration are US-specific
- ✗Teams wanting a full payroll system — Dili reviews and validates payroll produced elsewhere rather than running it, so it sits alongside ADP or Acumatica rather than replacing them
- ✗Buyers who need published list pricing or a body of third-party reviews before purchasing, as neither exists for this company yet
Deployment
Market & Ratings
700+ projects across EPC contractors, developers and compliance contractors
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓The hybrid LLM-plus-deterministic-rules design directly answers the main objection to AI in a regulated compliance workflow — the final answer is rule-derived, not model-derived
- ✓Live SAM.gov and RAPIDS integration removes the single most common source of prevailing wage error, which is running against outdated wage determinations
- ✓Reported throughput is concrete and specific: 700+ projects, $1.4 billion in wages and 5.2 million labor hours checked, with weekly review dropping from seven-plus hours to under five minutes
- ✓Backed by Khosla Ventures with Allianz participating, giving it insurer-adjacent credibility in a market where the downside is regulatory penalty
- ✓SOC 2 with role-based access control and full audit trail, which matters because the artifact being produced is itself audit evidence
Cons
- ✗Scope is narrowly US federal: Davis-Bacon, IRA apprenticeship rules, SAM.gov and RAPIDS. There is no value here for private-funded or non-US work, which makes it a point solution rather than a platform
- ✗No published pricing at any tier, so buyers cannot benchmark it against LCPtracker or Points North without entering a sales process
- ✗No third-party review presence at all — searches of G2, Capterra and Hacker News returned nothing — so every performance claim traces back to the vendor or its funding announcement
- ✗Company-reported metrics are inconsistent across surfaces: the July 2026 funding release cites $1.4 billion in wages and ~16,000 payroll reports while the website's counters show roughly $1 billion and 13,837, which buyers should reconcile in diligence
- ✗Output quality depends on the customer's and subcontractors' payroll data hygiene; garbage certified payroll upstream still requires human chasing
- ✗A 15-person company carrying compliance workflows where penalties run into millions is a real concentration risk that procurement will need to weigh
Pricing
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
- ✓Certified payroll review
- ✓Wage determination via SAM.gov
- ✓Apprenticeship tracking
- ✓Subcontractor monitoring
- ✓Audit-ready reporting
- ✓SOC 2 controls and RBAC
Dili publishes no list pricing anywhere on its site or in its funding coverage; every engagement runs through sales. The company markets the deal in return-on-investment terms instead, citing a 158% ROI measured on avoided fines alone, which suggests pricing is scoped to project count and payroll volume rather than seats. Buyers should expect to negotiate, and should note that roughly half of deployments are sold through outsourced compliance contractors rather than direct.
Security & Compliance
Sources
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- 1.techcrunch.com — dili raises 15 million to bring ai compliance to the infrast
- 2.globenewswire.com — dili raises 21 7m from khosla ventures to bring ai powered a
- 3.ycombinator.com — dili
- 4.theaiinsider.tech — ai compliance startup dili announces 15m series a to tackle
- 5.pulse2.com — dili raises 21 7 million from khosla ventures to bring ai po
- 6.certifiedpayrollpro.com — best lcptracker alternatives 2026
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