Business data and reporting solutions provider Workiva announced the launch of Workiva Sustainability Disclosure Agent, a new solution aimed at enabling companies to identify and fill sustainability reporting gaps and comply with various disclosure standards.
According to Workiva, the new solution was designed to solve challenges facing sustainability teams that are required to keep pace with shifting requirements and a fragmented standards environment, with the EU adopting updated simplified ESRS requirements, and the IFRS Foundation’s S1 and S2 being integrated by over 40 jurisdictions.
In a post announcing the new solution, Workiva said:
“Mapping all of this onto a company’s reporting is largely manual work. This typically involves pulling up lengthy standards documents, comparing them line-by-line against existing content, and interpreting language whose precise application is still being established.”
Workiva said that the new solution scans existing disclosures, compares them to reporting standards, indicates what is missing, recommends next steps, and generates a draft standards-aligned narrative.
Among the key features of the new solution is a capability to scan disclosures from prior reporting cycles, and to evaluate how much of the prior work still applies to new requirements or frameworks.
Workiva said that the agent also identifies gaps early in the reporting cycle, by showing which requirements are present, partial, or missing at the start of the drafting process, enabling teams to prioritize follow-up work, collect data and improve the disclosure. The new agent will also generate a structured first draft using selected content.
Workiva said:
“The agent supports, rather than replaces, expert judgment. Interpretation and final sign-off remain with your team. The agent shortens the work of reading through, comparing, and analyzing requirements, while reasoning through tasks alongside you.”
