dili

Dili is built for a specific and unforgiving problem: proving you paid the right wage, to the right classification, with the right fringe and apprentice ratio, on projects where the money comes from federal funding or tax credits. The platform's core is an audit engine that ingests certified payroll in any format — WH-347, state forms, PDF, Excel, CSV — and checks each line against prevailing wage rates pulled live from SAM.gov, with automatic mapping of the correct wage determination to each project based on location, trade, and project type. It flags underpayments (the vendor's own example shows a Laborer at $36.50/hr against a $38.20/hr rate, underpaid $1.70/hr), classification errors, fringe benefit gaps, and missing documentation, then tracks backpay. Apprenticeship compliance is handled separately but in depth: RAPIDS certification validation, registered apprenticeship hour tracking, apprentice-to-journeyman ratio monitoring, and state program integration, all visible per subcontractor (the vendor shows Electricians at 1:3 compliant versus Power Equipment Operators at 1:1 non-compliant). The operating layer is a live Project Compliance Overview — an overall compliance score (the demo shows 94.7%) split into prevailing wage, apprenticeship, and certified payroll percentages, with active projects sorted into On Track, At Risk, Critical, and Review, plus a running tally of funding protected. Alerts fire as underpayments or missing apprentice certs surface, and weekly status reports plus one-click PDF/Excel/CSV exports with audit trails cover the stakeholder loop. For teams that need more than software, Dili sells end-to-end monitoring staffed by former DOL and EPC experts, retroactive look-back assessments, specialized A&R project monitoring, and compliance training. Strengths: it is genuinely narrow and deep rather than a general HR suite wearing a compliance hat, the SAM.gov integration makes rate validation current instead of a stale spreadsheet, and the combination of software plus expert services covers both the messy retroactive cleanup and the ongoing weekly grind. Weaknesses and gaps to weigh: Dili is not a payroll system, so you still run pay through ADP, Acumatica, or similar and feed Dili the output; the vendor does not publish technical detail on its underlying models or public API documentation, so integration depth is something to verify directly; and the platform is US federal-labor-specific, so non-US or non-federally-funded work gets no benefit. Founded in 2023 and backed by Khosla Ventures, Allianz, Y Combinator, and Brick and Mortar Ventures, Dili is a young company relative to incumbent compliance consultancies — which cuts both ways for a multi-year project. Where it fits: developers and EPCs managing solar, battery storage, data center, and infrastructure portfolios under IRA and BIL funding; compliance officers at multi-site owners who need a portfolio-level view; contractors who submit certified payroll weekly and