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SEC and disclosure reporting · November 2026 Edition

Certent Disclosure Management vs Workiva

Five of fourteen models named Certent Disclosure Management first on the direct prompt; five named Workiva. Both were named by all fourteen models and Certent Disclosure Management carries 58 labels and Workiva 68, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Certent Disclosure Management

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Workiva

criticized challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

First-choice share27%27%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate2%26%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#2A position in a field of 6; printed, not drawn.
Labels5868A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Certent Disclosure Management reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.DFIN ActiveDisclosure was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Certent Disclosure Management vs DFIN ActiveDisclosure · Certent Disclosure Management vs IRIS CARBON · Workiva vs DFIN ActiveDisclosure

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the SEC and disclosure reporting page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Certent Disclosure ManagementFirst choices, of fourteen modelsWorkiva
Direct551 against Certent Disclosure Management · 3 against Workiva
Paraphrase332 against Workiva
Comparative014
Budget-constrained9012 against Workiva
Scale-constrained09
Negative001 against Workiva
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Certent Disclosure Management and Workiva were named in the same answer 166 times, of the 169 answers naming Certent Disclosure Management and the 539 naming Workiva. In those answers Workiva took the first choice seventy-one times and Certent Disclosure Management forty-eight.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Certent Disclosure Management and Workiva stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Certent Disclosure Management Workiva first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Certent Disclosure Management on the left and Workiva on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Certent Disclosure Management and Workiva stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 14 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
DeepSeek V4 FlashCertent Disclosure Management, Workiva alternatives: DFIN ActiveDisclosure, Toppan Merrill Bridge

Certent Disclosure Management first, Workiva an alternative

4 of 14 modelsWorkiva was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Certent Disclosure Management alternatives: DFIN ActiveDisclosure, IRIS CARBON
Grok 4.20Certent Disclosure Management alternatives: DFIN ActiveDisclosure, IRIS CARBON, Workiva
Qwen 3.7 FlashCertent Disclosure Management alternatives: Toppan Merrill Bridge, Workiva
Muse Glimmer 30BCertent Disclosure Management, IRIS CARBON alternatives: DFIN ActiveDisclosure

Workiva first, Certent Disclosure Management an alternative

4 of 14 modelsCertent Disclosure Management was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniWorkiva alternatives: DFIN ActiveDisclosure, Toppan Merrill Bridge
Mistral SmallWorkiva alternatives: Certent Disclosure Management, DFIN ActiveDisclosure, IRIS CARBON
Llama 4 MaverickDFIN ActiveDisclosure, Workiva
MiniMax M2.5Workiva alternatives: DFIN ActiveDisclosure, EdgarAgents

Neither was the first choice, one was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashDFIN ActiveDisclosure alternatives: Certent Disclosure Management, Toppan Merrill Bridge, Workiva
Perplexity SonarDFIN ActiveDisclosure alternatives: Certent Disclosure Management, Workiva
Kimi K2DFIN ActiveDisclosure alternatives: Certent Disclosure Management
GLM 4.7 FlashXDFIN ActiveDisclosure alternatives: Certent Disclosure Management, Workiva
GPT-6 LunaDFIN ActiveDisclosure alternatives: Workiva

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Certent Disclosure Management leads by thirty points.
Certent Disclosure Management36%#1 of 5
Workiva6%#4 of 5
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Certent Disclosure Management27%#1 of 6
Workiva27%#2 of 6
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Workiva leads at enterprise.
Workiva85%#1 of 9
Certent Disclosure Management0%#4 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Certent Disclosure Management

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.

“Cons: Less comprehensive feature set than Workiva” MiniMax M2.5 · direct prompt · soft negative
“For most small companies with limited budgets, Certent Disclosure Management or IRIS CARBON offer the best balance of functionality and affordability” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · first choice
“Certent Disclosure Management, owned by insightsoftware, is the established cost-conscious alternative to Workiva, best fitting smaller reporting companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose Certent Disclosure Management / IRIS CARBON if you want governed 10-K/10-Q/8-K and proxy filing with native iXBRL... the lowest total cost” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Workiva

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.

“What to Avoid with Limited Budgets: ... Workiva | $40,000 - $300,000+ | Premium pricing accumulates” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“For most accelerated and large accelerated filers, Workiva is the default with linked data across every document and the deepest iXBRL automation in the category.” Muse Glimmer 30B · scale prompt · first choice
“Workiva is the strongest overall platform in 2026, leading on connected data, native iXBRL and breadth across SEC, SOX, statutory and ESG reporting” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · first choice
“Workiva: The gold standard for workflow and cross-document linking. Best if budget allows and you want industry-leading reliability.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
Also compared
Certent Disclosure Management vs DFIN ActiveDisclosureCertent Disclosure Management vs IRIS CARBONWorkiva vs DFIN ActiveDisclosureWorkiva vs IRIS CARBONAll six head-to-head pages and the full disclosure reporting standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.