Who I am
I'm Lakisha Adu. I build and run Certified Payroll on my own, from Würzburg in Germany. There's no team behind this and no investor, which is why the contact page says a person answers your email rather than a support queue.
My full legal details, address and VAT number are on the Impressum. German law requires me to publish them. I'd list them anyway: you're about to trust a piece of software with a form you personally sign, so you should be able to see exactly who is behind it.
Building a US compliance tool from Germany raises a fair question, so here's the honest answer. This tool doesn't interpret the law for you and it doesn't give legal advice. It fills the government's own form with the government's own published wage data, and it checks your numbers against that data. Every rule it applies traces back to a public source you can read yourself: the Davis-Bacon Act, 29 CFR Parts 3 and 5, and the wage determination named in your contract.
Where the numbers come from
Rates are pulled from the wage determination published on SAM.gov and matched to the WD number on your contract. Nothing is typed in from memory, and nothing is cached from a rate table I maintain by hand. If a determination has been superseded, you see that before you rely on it.
The form itself is the Department of Labor's actual WH-347, revision January 2025, OMB No. 1235-0008. It's not redrawn and it's not an approximation that looks close enough.
How the parser was tested
Reading a wage determination correctly is the part that has to be right, because everything downstream depends on it. I tested the wage-rate parser against 5 real wage determinations from 5 different states. It read 385 of 385 table rows correctly.
That's the honest number, and it's also a small one. It means the parser handled every row I put in front of it. It doesn't mean it has seen every layout the Department of Labor has ever published. If you hit a determination it reads wrong, send it to me and I'll fix the parser, not the individual row.
What this tool will not do
A short list of things it deliberately leaves alone, so you can rule it out quickly if you need them:
- State certified payroll formats. California's DIR eCPR and the other state-specific forms are not covered. This stays federal-only on purpose, because the WH-347 has enough nuance to get right on its own.
- Union benefit administration. It checks fringe handling on the form. It does not administer benefit funds or produce remittance reports.
- Legal advice. It flags what looks wrong against a public rule. Whether a classification, an exemption or a contract term applies to your job is a question for your contracting officer or your lawyer.
- Payroll itself. It doesn't run your payroll and it doesn't import from QuickBooks, Gusto or ADP. It produces the certified payroll report on top of whatever you already use.
Where AI is used, and where it isn't
Worth being precise about, because it's the part you'd want to know before signing something. The text on this website was drafted with AI assistance and edited by me. That's it.
The product itself doesn't work that way. The rate comparisons and the eight compliance checks are fixed rules, written out and applied the same way every time. No model decides whether your electrician was underpaid. If the check says a rate is short, it's because a published number on a wage determination is larger than the number you typed, and you can go read both.
What happens to your data
The finished PDF is built in your browser. Your payroll figures never have to leave your machine to become a filed document. What the service does store, and for how long, is written out in the privacy policy.
How to reach me
Email support@certifiedpayroll.co, or use the contact form. There's no sales call and no chatbot in between. If you're weighing whether this is worth $79 a month for the amount of filing you actually do, say so in the message and I'll tell you honestly. I've written the same answer into the pricing FAQ: if you file a WH-347 twice a year, the free payrolls or the blank PDF will serve you just as well.