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You Have Options! Modern Technology for Simplifying Your Tax Credit and Prevailing Wage Compliance

Maximize tax credits and simplify compliance for renewable energy projects with SkillSmart’s InSight IQ. Our modern, adaptable platform streamlines prevailing wage and apprenticeship tracking, automates reporting, and provides full data visibility, ensuring your projects meet evolving...

SkillSmart Achieves SOC2 Compliance: Supporting and Protecting Our Clients

SkillSmart is proud to announce successful completion of the SOC 2 Type II Audit, ensuring our clients benefit from top-tier data security and compliance. This achievement reaffirms our commitment to safeguarding client data with best-in-class technology and services, demonstrating our...

InSight Minute: Can You Meet the Prevailing Wage Requirements for your Project?

There are a many new federal programs that provide funding or economic incentives like tax credits, grants and loans to organizations in many different industries that are vital to our economy and infrastructure. A key requirement that must be met for many of...

Prevailing Wage: The New Factor Impacting Energy Projects

Over the past two years, organizations in the energy sector have become increasingly aware of the concept of prevailing wage, which has arisen from the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), as well as an increasing...

Year End Reporting – How’s it Going?

Since the middle of December, I’ve been hearing from our clients and prospective clients that they’re undertaking the annual rite of year-end reporting.  Interestingly, this year I’ve heard from more of our prospects as to what a challenge this has become for them: trying to gather...

Simplifying CRIO Construction Reporting: SkillSmart InSight Technology for Detroit and Wayne County, MI General Contractors

In the fast-paced world of construction, efficient reporting is crucial for general contractors to navigate regulatory landscapes and ensure project success. SkillSmart InSight technology emerges as a game-changer, offering a streamlined solution for general contractors...

The Future of Clean Energy Projects: Tech-Driven Tax Credit Optimization

The Treasury Department released its guidance and the proposed rules regarding prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements for the Inflation Reduction Act.  With this announcement it’s clear that investors and owners involved in clean energy projects are facing a...

Clean Energy and Prevailing Wage – An Important and Unlikely New Pairing

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has brought prevailing wage and clean energy together. The IRA includes nearly $270 billion for incentives and tax credits to encourage acceleration of efforts to implement clean energy initiatives.  Yet, in order to receive these benefits,...

Using Federal Funding and Building a Stronger Workforce

America is at the beginning of a government-supported building boom. Between 2021 and 2022, Congress invested more than $2.3 trillion across three pieces of legislation—the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act—to enable...

Why We Have SkillSmart Day: Celebrating 10 Years

When we founded SkillSmart ten years ago, we had a vision to use technology to make communities stronger by helping workers obtain the skills they needed to be successful working for employers in their community.  We recognized that strong communities need workers who can earn a good...

The InSight Minute: Growing Local Economies – Metrics for Building Stronger Communities

Everywhere you look, from small towns to big cities, and even the federal government, there’s a drive to improve the economy and create more good jobs with decent pay so folks can live well and help the economy prosper. These are great platitudes, but how can it actually happen?...

The InSight Minute: How You Can Track the Impact of Your IIJA Project

The Investment in Infrastructure and Jobs Act (IIJA) was passed at the beginning of 2022, but we are still in the early stages of this funding being available and for the various requirements to be more fully clarified.  Yet, we know that among the key elements of the IIJA and its...