Dili secures $21.7 million to automate compliance for U.S. infrastructure projects
AI startup Dili raised a total of $21.7 million, including a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, to provide compliance automation for federally funded construction projects in the United States.
Dili, an artificial-intelligence compliance firm, announced a $15 million Series A round that lifts its total financing to $21.7 million after an earlier $6.7 million seed round. The Series A was spearheaded by Khosla Ventures with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan. The startup focuses on the intricate web of regulations that govern U.S. construction projects receiving federal money, such as Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage rules and the clean-energy wage and apprenticeship standards tied to the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as OSHA and EPA mandates.
Dili’s architecture confines large language models to a data-processing layer that converts unstructured files into structured records, after which a deterministic engine enforces static compliance rules, eliminating fuzzy AI outputs. According to co-founder and CEO Anand Chaturvedi, the system can reduce a day-long compliance task to a few minutes by scanning internal, vendor, ERP and payroll data. The technology is currently used on about 700 projects, with roughly half adopting the software directly and the other half outsourcing the entire compliance workflow, a balance Dili expects to shift toward in-house software as the market evolves.
Why it matters
Automating complex regulatory checks can save billions in fines and speed up the U.S. infrastructure build-out.
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