AI agents that classify workers, catch violations, and assemble audit packets — autonomously. Your team certifies with confidence instead of crossing their fingers. Every decision explainable, every record defensible.
Teams lock the wrong wage determination or miss a mid-project revision. No one finds out until a portal rejects the filing — weeks after the work is done.
Job titles in payroll never match Davis-Bacon labor classifications. Someone guesses every single period — and every wrong guess is silent underpayment liability.
Fringe credits and overtime rules are complex and jurisdiction-specific. Shortfalls hide in plain sight because no one runs the full calculation before signing.
When something goes wrong, teams overwrite history in spreadsheets. Auditors arrive and find a latest version with no trail — and no defense.
The brutal irony: You can run payroll perfectly and still lose a debarment hearing — because the compliance story wasn't preserved.
This is not a document-generation problem. It's an agentic AI opportunity — the entire compliance loop, automated end to end.
WageCompass deploys specialized AI agents across every stage of the certified payroll workflow — from intake through audit — while enforcing a hard rule: only a human can sign.
Not a form generator. Not a portal middleman. A full-stack compliance agent that does the work and makes the human decision defensible.
Locks wage determinations, builds the contractor tree, and configures jurisdiction rules before any payroll is touched.
Reads every worker record, matches actual work to Davis-Bacon classifications, flags ambiguity, and queues conformance cases for human review.
Runs deterministic prevailing wage, fringe, and overtime math — no guesswork, no shortcuts, every period.
Blocks certification until every finding is resolved. Human signs. AI never does.
Assembles a complete, traceable evidence packet in minutes — every decision, calculation, and correction, linked and ready.
AI catches violations before legal attestation, not after a portal rejection.
Agents write corrections forward; originals are never touched.
Unsupported rule combinations are blocked by the engine, not left to the user.
Agents classify, calculate, draft, and assemble; they may never certify or submit.
The classification agent evaluates actual work, not job title or payroll label.
Every suggestion carries confidence, rationale, and a traceable link to governing data.
When a human overrides the agent, the system records who, when, and why.
Every blocked state surfaces what's wrong, who resolves it, and what the agent needs.
The ideal early customer is a contractor with recurring certified payroll obligations who already runs payroll elsewhere and loses hours every period to manual compliance coordination.
They don't want another form. They want an agent that does the compliance work for them — and makes it defensible when it matters.
The IIJA and IRA forced thousands of contractors into certified payroll compliance who had never touched it before — with debarment risk if they get it wrong. Michigan restored its prevailing wage law in 2024. New York expanded in 2025. The regulatory tide is rising. The tooling hasn't moved.
IIJA & IRA put prevailing wage on contractors who never had it before. Michigan restored its law in 2024. New York expanded in 2025. Five states now mandate eCPR portals — more coming. Every new mandate is a new customer with acute pain and no good tool.
Every competitor is a portal tool or a form generator. None run the compliance loop. None catch violations pre-certification. None preserve correction lineage. The pre-certification compliance agent is an open category.
Classification, fringe calculation, conformance resolution, and audit assembly are labor-intensive but deeply pattern-rich. Two years ago this required a compliance consultant. Today, AI agents do it in seconds — with explainability that holds up in an audit room.
We start with Davis-Bacon and certified payroll — the most acute, highest-frequency compliance pain in the industry. From there: broader jurisdiction coverage, deeper subcontractor coordination, stronger portal integrations, and increasingly autonomous agent workflows as trust compounds.
The long game: WageCompass is the compliance brain that every construction company plugs their payroll into — and never has to think about certified payroll again.