Q1 2026 Product Updates: 30+ Updates. Zero Excuses.
Three releases. Thirty-plus updates. One goal: help auditors spend less time on setup, status-chasing, and manual clicks and more time on work that actually matters.
Q1 2026 was the most active quarter in Audora's history. We shipped three feature releases, including the landmark Audora 2.0; with every update pointing at the same target: a faster, cleaner, more capable audit platform from kickoff to close. Here's everything we built, organized by what it does for you.
Engagement Management
From Pre-Sale to Quality Review, All in One Place (4 updates)
The biggest workflow changes of the quarter were here. These updates touch every stage of the engagement from how it's created, how it carries forward year to year, and how every task within it is managed.
🗂️ Admin File Template
A fully configurable engagement management template spanning the entire audit lifecycle from pre-sale and scoping through execution, reporting, and quality review. Tasks support form capture, check-ins, file uploads, approvals, multi-step workflows, and automated emails. Your whole process, one place.
🔄 Self-Service Engagement Rollover
Roll over a prior year's engagement in minutes. Update controls, criteria, names, and descriptions before you dive in. No rebuilding from zero, last year's work is this year's head start
⚙️ Major Engagement Setup Improvements
A faster, more guided engagement creation experience from a cleaner setup flow to pre-loaded defaults that get you audit-ready in minutes instead of hours. ·
🔀. Cleaner Switch Ownership Experience
Redesigned ownership transfer that is clearer, more intuitive, less confusion about who you're assigning and what happens next. Smoother handoffs, fewer mix-ups.
Visibility & Tracking
Know Where Everything Stands, Without Asking (5 updates)
Status shouldn't be something you have to chase. These updates give auditors and firm leaders an always-current view of every engagement, task, and evidence request without extra clicks or check-in meetings.
🔵 Real-Time Engagement Progress Rings
See completion status for every engagement directly from the list view, with hover details showing what's done vs. remaining controls and evidence requests. Fewer status meetings, faster triage.
🕐 Real-Time Status Tracking + Full Audit Trail
Every status change tracked automatically from what changed, who changed it, and when. Zero extra effort from your team. Defensible documentation of every step in the review and approval process
📊 Practice Insights Dashboard
A firm-level command center showing engagements at risk, reports issued this week, and projected reports for next week. Built for practices managing multiple audits at once
🔎 Search, Sort & Filter Across All Tables
Filter and sort every table in Audora from engagements, tasks, evidence requests with persistent filters that stay until you reset them. Sort by progress to scan your whole portfolio at a glance.
📎 Attachment Indicators (Paperclip Icons)
A paperclip icon now appears next to any control or evidence request that has attachments so you can see what already has supporting files without clicking in. Fewer clicks, faster review.
Speed & Efficiency
Fewer Clicks, Faster Everything (5 Updates)
Time saved on repetitive tasks is time back for real audit work. These updates target the most common friction points including bulk actions, file uploads, table navigation, and late-stage edits that used to require workarounds.
✅ Bulk Approval of Evidence Requests
Approve all completed evidence requests at once, not one at a time. Select, approve, move on. Fewer repetitive clicks, faster review cycles.
📁 Drag & Drop Multi-File Uploads
Auditors and auditees can upload multiple files at once, select a batch, drop them in, done. Faster evidence collection and less friction for everyone.
☑️ Select All Rows Across All Pages
The header checkbox now selects ALL applicable rows across every page, not just what's on screen with a running count so you always know exactly what you're acting on.
✏️ Late-Stage ID & Title Edits
Edit Control and Evidence Request IDs and titles even in the late stages of an audit for cleanup, naming conventions, and last-minute fixes that used to require reopening.
⚠️ More Flexible Exceptions
Create, edit, and delete exceptions more easily including later in the audit as evidence arrives or scope gets clarified. Less rework, cleaner documentation. ·
Documentation & Reporting
More Defensible Workpapers. Fewer Surprises at Delivery (5 Updates)
Good documentation is the foundation of a defensible audit. These updates add structure where it was missing, surface reporting context earlier, and make template setup faster and more reliable.
🧪 Test of Design & Test of Effectiveness Fields
Dedicated fields for both layers of control testing for how controls are designed and whether they're actually working, right where the evidence lives. More defensible workpapers, cleaner documentation, and a structure aligned with how auditors are trained to think.
💡 Process Improvement Opportunity (PIO) Section
A dedicated space to capture recommendations and improvement insights during the engagement, right alongside the audit work. No more sticky notes or separate docs, the good stuff lives in the audit now.
🔴 Report Field Indicators
Indicator labels next to fields that pull into the final report so it's immediately clear what data matters before you get to delivery. No documentation hunting. No end-of-audit surprises.
📝 Template Creation + Validation Improvements
Stricter naming checks, better error feedback, default report and mapping templates pre-loaded, and automatic 24-hour validation checks to catch issues before they hit delivery. ·
🔢 Summary Counters for Controls + Audits
At-a-glance totals for controls and audits across your workspace, no more mentally tallying rows or scrolling to estimate scope. Better context-setting at the start of every session.
Collaboration
Smoother Workflows for Auditora and Auditees (4 updates)
Audit is a team effort. These updates reduce the friction that comes from handoffs, onboarding, and evidence collection for the auditor side and the auditee side.
🤝 Improved Invitations, Roles & Auditee Onboarding
Better user invitations, role assignment, and resend flows. A new "Skip Auditee" option lets you start an engagement and add the auditee later. Faces replace initials across engagements so it's clear who's involved. ·
📬 Verification & Invitation Email Improvements
Clearer language, better formatting, and a more consistent experience across all verification and invitation emails, fewer "I never got the email" conversations and a more professional first impression for new auditees.
📂 Expanded Supported File Formats
Auditors and auditees can now upload the evidence types they actually work with no workarounds, no format-related blockers.
👤 Profile Pictures + Company Profile Updates
User profile pictures now appear across all tasks throughout Audora. Plus improvements to company profile details and faster access to real-time support when you need it.
Security & Platform Experience
A More Secure, More Polished Platform (7 updates)
Security improvements and UX refinements that make Audora feel more reliable, more responsive, and more distinctly yours without calling attention to themselves.
🔐 MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)
Enterprise-grade account security, now live in Audora 2.0. Protect auditor and auditee access without adding friction to the login experience
🛡️ Security Upgrades + Profile Settings
New profile settings menu, password change options, and automatic logout after 4 hours of inactivity. Broad vulnerability patching and security improvements across both releases.
🎨 Graphic Improvements Across the Platform
Cleaner presentation, better spacing, and more consistent visual flow as you move from screen to screen. Better design reduces cognitive load, that's not just aesthetics, it's audit performance. ·
📅 New On-Brand Date Selector
A date picker that actually works that is consistent, familiar, and fast. Small frictions add up; this one's gone.
⏳ New Loading Spinners
On-brand progress rings replace generic loading states so you always know something is happening, especially during heavier operations.
💬 Hover Tooltips on Key Features
Guidance is always one hover away, for both auditors and auditees. Shorter learning curves, fewer "what does this do?" moments, more confident use across the board.
🐛 Bug Fixes + Stability Improvements
Broad platform stability improvements, edge-case fixes, and continued performance improvements across both releases, so Audora holds up when it matters most. ·
Quick Summary
Three releases. One direction. Here's the one-line version of everything Q1 delivered:
Admin File Template — your entire audit lifecycle, one configurable home
Engagement Rollover — last year's work is this year's head start
Bulk Evidence Approval — approve everything at once, not one at a time
Full Audit Trail — every change tracked automatically, zero extra effort
Practice Insights Dashboard — firm-wide visibility across all engagements
Test of Design & Effectiveness Fields — more defensible workpapers
PIO Section — recommendations captured in the engagement, not a sticky note
Search, Sort & Filter — across every table in Audora, with persistent filters
Drag & Drop Multi-File Uploads — for auditors and auditees
MFA — enterprise-grade account security, now live
Plus 20+ additional updates across templates, reporting, UI, collaboration, and platform stability.
