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Dili sells AI-assisted labor compliance software and services to construction project developers and EPCs.

category

Construction labor compliance automation

market profile

  • text: Federally supported infrastructure projects must manage prevailing wage, certified payroll and apprenticeship requirements across many contractors.
  • text: Compliance failures can put project funding and tax credits at risk, while manual payroll review creates operational burden.

personas

  • title: EPC labor compliance director
    pains:
    • Collecting and reviewing subcontractor payroll across projects is fragmented and slow.
    • Wage classifications, fringe benefits and apprentice ratios require consistent exception handling.
  • title: Infrastructure or energy project developer
    pains:
    • A compliance lapse can jeopardize funding or tax credits.
    • The owner lacks a consolidated view of risks across multiple contractors.
  • title: Subcontractor payroll manager
    pains:
    • Repeated certified payroll submissions and project-specific requirements add administrative work.

icp

  • text: US developers and EPCs delivering energy, infrastructure, data center and advanced manufacturing projects with prevailing wage obligations.
  • text: Organizations coordinating multiple subcontractors and large volumes of certified payroll, especially on federally funded or tax-credit projects.

message pillars

  • text: Automate compliance for the built world.
  • text: Reduce the burden on subcontractors.
  • text: Combine AI with human compliance expertise.

objections

  • objection: An AI error could expose funding or create audit risk.
    response: Pilot historical payroll against expert-reviewed outcomes and examine exception handling and supporting records.
  • objection: Subcontractors will resist another portal.
    response: Test payroll uploads with a small group of subs and measure actual administrative effort.
  • objection: We already have a certified payroll system.
    response: Compare coverage of wage validation, apprentice monitoring and historical look-back review against the existing workflow.

competitors

  • name: LCPtracker
    website: https://lcptracker.com/
    why: Project-wide prevailing wage and certified payroll compliance.
  • name: eBacon
    website: https://ebacon.com/
    why: Construction payroll and certified payroll reporting.
  • name: Points North
    why: Certified payroll and prevailing wage software with managed services.

influencers

  • name: Anand Chaturvedi
    url: https://www.dili.com/about
    why: CEO and co-founder discussing construction compliance.

keywords

  • prevailing wage compliance software
  • certified payroll review
  • Davis Bacon compliance
  • apprenticeship compliance tracking
  • construction labor compliance
  • IRA tax credit compliance

voice

  • direct and operational
  • risk-aware
  • construction industry focused

signals

  • text: An EPC wins a federally supported project with prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements.
  • text: A developer has a backlog of historical payroll or is preparing for a project audit.

hiring

  • Compliance Manager
  • Compliance Customer Success Manager
  • Founding Business Development Representative

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • outbound
  • case studies
  • LinkedIn
  • SEO

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Anand Chaturvedi
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Anand Chaturvedi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Dili working in New York, NY. Anand led engagement growth at Coinbase (S12) to increase revenue by $50M, and built out KYC/AML systems. Previously, Anand has conducted ML research at Apple, working on new hardware products. Anand is a fellow at Kleiner Perkins, and holds a Bachelor's & Master's in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech.
  • name: Brian Fernandez
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Building compliance automation that keeps America’s big projects moving.

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