One Bad Day Costs You
$60 Million in Tax Credits.
Your $200M solar project qualifies for a 30% ITC under the Inflation Reduction Act. That is $60 million. But the IRA requires prevailing wages, 15% apprentice ratios by trade, and domestic content documentation — every single day. Miss the threshold once, and you drop to 6%.
Five Ways to Lose $60 Million
The IRA created the largest clean energy incentive in US history. It also created the most complex compliance requirements in construction history.
Prevailing wage violations hide in certified payroll gaps
The IRA requires every worker on a qualifying project to receive prevailing wages. One electrician paid below the Davis-Bacon rate for one day creates a compliance violation that jeopardizes the entire 30% ITC — $60 million on a $200M project.
Apprentice ratios tracked monthly instead of daily
The IRA requires 15% apprentice ratios by trade. You check this monthly in payroll. But on any given day, your ratio could be 8% because three apprentices called in sick. If audited for that day, you fail the test.
Domestic content documentation is an afterthought
Steel, iron, and manufactured products must meet domestic content thresholds. Your material logs say "delivered 500 modules." Where were they manufactured? Your spreadsheet does not know. Your ITC auditor will ask.
No real-time visibility into ITC qualification status
You will not know if you qualified for the 30% ITC until your tax advisor reviews 18 months of records. By then, it is too late to fix anything. The difference between 30% and 6% ITC is $48 million.
Good faith effort documentation is insufficient
When you cannot meet apprentice ratios, the IRA allows a "good faith effort" exemption — but only with documented proof of outreach to registered apprenticeship programs. Your HR team has emails somewhere. That is not auditable documentation.
Three Thresholds. All Must Pass. Every Day.
POD tracks prevailing wage compliance, apprentice ratios, and domestic content as real-time thermometers. All three must cross their thresholds for your 30% ITC badge to illuminate.
How POD Protects Your $60M Tax Credit
Daily compliance verification, not annual audit panic.
Daily Prevailing Wage Verification
POD captures wage data from daily voice reports and compares against Davis-Bacon determinations for your project county. Every worker, every trade, every day — verified before the payroll is even processed.
Real-Time Apprentice Ratio Dashboard
POD tracks apprentice-to-journeyworker ratios by trade in real time. When any trade drops below 15%, an alert fires immediately — giving you hours, not months, to correct the ratio.
Domestic Content Chain of Custody
POD tags every material delivery with origin documentation. Steel, iron, and manufactured products are tracked from purchase order to installation — with domestic content percentages calculated automatically against IRA thresholds.
ITC Qualification Score
POD provides a daily ITC qualification score — a single number that tells you whether your project currently qualifies for the 30% credit. Green means you are on track. Amber means corrective action needed today. Red means you are about to lose $48 million.
IRA Compliance Metrics — Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Tracked Daily
These KPIs auto-populate from daily field uploads — no manual data entry required.
Labor Efficiency Index
Apprentice Ratio
IRA Compliance Features
Davis-Bacon Wage Matching
Automatically compares reported wage rates against prevailing wage determinations for your project county and trade classification — flagging underpayment before payroll closes.
Apprentice Program Documentation
Tracks registered apprenticeship program outreach, enrollment, and on-site ratios. Generates "good faith effort" documentation packages for IRA audit defense.
Material Origin Intelligence
Every material delivery tagged with manufacturer, country of origin, and domestic content classification. POD calculates running domestic content percentage in real time.
ITC Threshold Alerts
Configurable alerts when any IRA compliance metric approaches its threshold — prevailing wage, apprentice ratio, or domestic content. Act today, not during tax season.
Audit-Ready Export Packages
One-click export of complete IRA compliance records — daily wage verification, apprentice ratios by trade, domestic content documentation, and good faith effort records. Ready for IRS audit review.
We almost lost our 30% ITC because of a two-week gap in apprentice documentation. POD would have caught it on day one. We now use it on every IRA-qualifying project.
Frequently Asked Questions
Protect Your 30% ITC — Starting Today
The difference between 30% and 6% is $48 million. POD makes sure you never lose it because of a documentation gap.