About
Dili builds AI-powered compliance automation for construction, infrastructure, energy, advanced manufacturing, and other regulated industries. It sells to EPC contractors, project owners, developers, investors, financial institutions, and compliance teams, differentiating through a unified platform that integrates payroll, project-management, government, and compliance data with real-time monitoring and audit trails.
Market
Dili competes in construction and infrastructure compliance automation, with a particular focus on prevailing-wage, certified-payroll, apprenticeship, and federal-funding or tax-credit compliance. It positions itself as an AI-native, end-to-end compliance platform that unifies project, payroll, workforce, and regulatory data with real-time monitoring, whereas the cited competitors are primarily presented around certified-payroll reporting, workforce tracking, and labor-compliance workflows.
Dili primarily targets large EPC contractors, project owners, and developers managing federally funded clean-energy, infrastructure, and construction projects, especially organizations with extensive subcontractor networks. Its key buyers and users include compliance managers, compliance consultants, and investment or financial institutions that need audit-ready prevailing-wage and apprenticeship verification.
At a Glance
Problem
Dili addresses the high-cost, highly manual compliance burden facing federally funded construction, energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing projects. Prevailing-wage, apprenticeship, and certified-payroll requirements are spread across contractors, subcontractors, payroll records, project systems, and changing government rules; teams often rely on spreadsheets and manual review, creating missed violations, audit findings, penalties, and potential clawbacks of funding or tax credits. The killer use case is monitoring a portfolio of federally funded projects early enough to prevent compliance failures: Dili’s case-study material says a top-10 solar developer uncovered 1,393 violations and more than $100,000 in hidden penalty exposure across 14 projects in one week.
The economic pain is especially acute because the underlying projects can be worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars in public funding and tax credits depend on meeting labor-compliance rules. Dili also originated around investment due diligence, where firms spend weeks reviewing data rooms and preparing high-stakes underwriting and investment memos, but its current positioning centers on compliance automation for the built world.
Product / Service
Dili is an AI-powered compliance-automation platform delivered as software plus compliance expertise. Customers can upload payroll data, connect payroll and project-management systems, and use feeds such as SAM.gov; Dili’s AI converts unstructured documents into structured data, while a deterministic rules engine checks wage rates, apprentice ratios, fringe benefits, and other requirements. It then provides risk scoring, exception queues, real-time monitoring, and audit-ready reports rather than forcing teams to reconcile spreadsheets manually.
The delivery model is designed to be low-friction for contractors and project owners: the company advertises drag-and-drop payroll uploads, integrations including ADP and Acumatica, hands-on training, and end-to-end monitoring backed by former Department of Labor and EPC compliance experts. The benefit is increased compliance-manager capacity, earlier detection of violations, and protection of federal funding and tax credits; Dili also supports diligence and portfolio-review workflows for investors and financial institutions evaluating project compliance.
Market
Dili competes in vertical AI and regtech for regulated physical industries, with its clearest beachhead in U.S. construction, clean energy, infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and federally funded projects. Adjacent competitors include LCPtracker, which documents prevailing wages, tracks apprentices, and validates federal Davis-Bacon payroll, and Payroll4Construction, which provides construction payroll, prevailing-wage support, and certified reports. Dili’s differentiation is the combination of AI document understanding, deterministic compliance rules, cross-project monitoring, and investment-grade diligence rather than payroll processing alone.
The company is operating commercially rather than appearing pre-revenue. Public evidence says its software was being used at about 700 projects, while Dili and Y Combinator materials say it has supported compliance tied to more than $1 billion in federal funding and delivered diligence and red-flag analysis across more than 3,000 deals. It has raised a reported $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, with the funding announcement describing $21.7 million raised overall; a third-party estimate puts 2024 revenue at approximately $1.4 million, although that revenue figure is not an audited company disclosure.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
CoreNest, Allianz Strategic Investments, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, Singularity Capital, Decacorn, NVO Capital, Amino Capital, Rocketship VC, Hi2 Ventures, Gaingels, Hyper Ventures
Khosla Ventures
Recent News
TechCrunch reports that Dili raised $15 million in Series A funding to provide AI compliance tools for U.S. infrastructure projects. The round brought the company’s total capital raised to $21.7 million.
The SaaS News reports Dili’s $15 million Series A, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Darren Bechtel, and Garry Tan.
RuntimeWire reports that Dili disclosed a $15 million Series A for AI supporting capital-project compliance. It also notes that the company had announced at least $18.6 million in funding, including a previously reported $3.6 million.
A F6S company listing describes Dili’s compliance platform as integrating with payroll and project-management tools, alongside optional full-service managed compliance support.
Active Roles
11Business Model
Dili appears to operate as a sales-led B2B enterprise software and services company, selling its compliance automation platform and related services such as look-back assessments and ongoing monitoring. The company directs prospects to request a demo rather than publishing self-serve pricing, indicating contract-based enterprise revenue.