Workiva Advances Regulatory Work with AI Innovation
Workiva
Inc., a leading, audit-ready platform for trust, transparency, and
accountability, unveiled dozens of new product and platform innovations at
Amplify 2026, the company’s annual conference attended by thousands of finance,
accounting, sustainability, risk, and compliance leaders.
Workiva introduced Agent Studio, a landmark platform
capability that empowers users to quickly build, customize, and deploy AI
agents in Workiva's trusted platform. By combining AI reasoning with Workiva's
native platform capabilities, enterprise knowledge, and governed workflows,
Agent Studio enables users to automate sophisticated manual business processes
without writing any code. Organizations can enrich agents with company-specific
knowledge and context, tailor them to their own processes, and schedule
automations to execute recurring work.
“With Agent Studio, we're putting the power to build in the
hands of the people who know the work and their company the best. But what you
build is only as strong as what it's built on,” said Julie Iskow, CEO of
Workiva. "Every company has access to AI. What matters is whether your
outcomes are traceable, defensible, and can hold up in front of investors and
regulators. This is even more important as AI becomes more ubiquitous."
The release of
three new agentic solutions marks Workiva’s expansion into a wider universe of
reporting obligations and regulatory work. Starting with what has historically
been highly manual regulatory disclosures, such as BEA (Bureau
of Economic Analysis) surveys, US Census
surveys, and Country-by-Country
Reporting, accounting and finance teams will be able to manage a broader
range of regulatory requirements within the same connected platform.
The new
agentic solution accelerates testing while maintaining consistency,
traceability, and governance. By orchestrating evidence, attribute, and testing
agents, the solution replaces manual evidence collection, sample selection,
attribute testing, and documentation with a purpose-built workflow that
provides full traceability at every step. The result is expanded sampling
capacity, broader risk coverage, and the ability to scale testing without
scaling manual effort.
"Transformation requires genuine buy-in at every level
of the value stream. This work has always demanded process precision. Now it
demands velocity, too,” said Keri Tracy, Chief Audit Executive of Newell
Brands. “As AI takes on more work, it frees audit professionals to focus on
higher-value judgment, interpretation, and risk management. But that only works
if people trust the technology. When teams feel heard, valued, and supported
through the change, adoption follows naturally, controls strengthen, and the
integrity of the process becomes the foundation that withstands any audit or
regulatory scrutiny."
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