Dili Raises $15M to Automate Infrastructure Compliance

Billions are flowing into data centres, energy and manufacturing projects. A surprising amount of that investment still depends on getting payroll records and compliance paperwork exactly right.

What happened

Dili has raised a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, following a $6.7 million seed round and bringing its total funding to $21.7 million.

The company focuses on labour compliance for large construction and infrastructure projects, particularly those receiving public funding or tax incentives. These projects can involve many contractors, workers and documents, all subject to rules on prevailing wages, apprenticeships and reporting.

Dili uses AI to extract information from payroll and project documents, then applies deterministic rules to test whether the records comply with the relevant requirements. That combination is important: AI handles messy documents, while fixed rules make the final compliance checks easier to audit than a purely generative answer.

The platform is currently used across roughly 700 projects, although that adoption figure and its efficiency claims come from the company.

Why it matters

Compliance failures can trigger fines, repayment obligations or loss of valuable subsidies. Manual review is slow, repetitive and difficult to scale across large contractor networks.

Dili is targeting a problem with a clear buyer, measurable cost and strong reason to avoid mistakes. It is less glamorous than designing chips or models, but it sits directly in the path of real infrastructure deployment.

The bigger picture

The AI infrastructure boom is creating a second market for software around construction, permitting, labour, energy and reporting. As capital moves from digital models into physical projects, operational bottlenecks become investable categories. Dili’s round is a reminder that some of the strongest AI businesses may be built around the paperwork the boom produces.