Recent releases to the Workiva platform included improvements to the following products and features.
You can learn more about each item in the sections below.
Carbon
New: Import custom emission factors for your region and reporting methodology
New: CDP 2026 is available now
Charts
New: Support for stacked area and 100% area/bar charts
Controls Management
New: New shapes in flowchart editor
Internal Controls for Financial Reporting
New: New shapes in flowchart editor (See Controls Management for details)
Workiva AI
Improved: Longer conversations, better memory now available in Workiva AI
Carbon
Import custom emission factors for your region and reporting methodology
Now you can import emission factors or add them individually when the factors you need aren't available in Workiva Carbon yet. Unlike custom sources, custom factors can be broken down by constituent gases, used across multiple locations, support location-based and market-based calculations, and include more transparency for auditing. New custom factors live on a dedicated page in your Company profile. To learn more, view Add custom factors.
To learn more, see this Workiva Support page: Add Custom Factors.
CDP 2026 is available now
The CDP 2026 reporting framework is available in Workiva Carbon, replacing CDP 2025. Quantitative CDP metrics, including operational boundary, emissions, energy, waste, and water data, are now natively supported in Carbon. Export them directly or send them straight to your CDP portal via our API to simplify your disclosure workflow. For 2026, question 7.15.1 now includes Scope 2; all other questions remain unchanged from 2025. To learn more, view Workiva Carbon reporting module.
To learn more, see this Workiva Support page: Workiva Carbon Reporting Module.
Charts
New: Support for stacked area and 100% area/bar charts
We’ve added more flexibility to your data visualizations! You can now easily convert your standard stacked charts into 100% stacked charts. You can show labels as absolute values or as percentages, depending on what best tells your data's story
- Toggle to 100% stack: Switch your existing stacked charts to a percent stack in your chart properties.
- Flexible data labels: Choose exactly how you want to display your data.
Controls Management,
Internal Controls for Financial Reporting
New shapes in flowchart editor
The following shapes have been added as available shapes for flowcharts in the flowchart editor:
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To learn more, see this Workiva Support page: Create and manage flow charts
Workiva AI
Longer conversations, better memory now available in in Workiva AI
Workiva AI can now maintain context across much longer conversations.
Previously, in extended sessions Workiva AI could lose track of details discussed earlier — decisions you'd made, specific values you'd referenced, or the direction the work was heading. Now, as a conversation grows, Workiva AI automatically retains a running summary of your earlier exchanges alongside your most recent messages. The result is that it stays oriented throughout the session, even in long, multi-step reporting and compliance workflows.
What this means for you:
- Facts, decisions, and identifiers you share early in a conversation — revenue figures, entity names, filing references, XBRL tags — carry forward reliably as the session continues.
- You can work through complex, multi-step tasks without needing to re-explain context you've already established.
- Long sessions feel more coherent. Workiva AI knows where you've been, not just where you are.
This improvement is automatic — there is nothing to configure and no change to how you interact with Workiva AI.