August 2026

August brought demos that speak your buyer's language, designs that come straight in from Figma, and a library that lets you build a section once and reuse it everywhere. There are also new controls over who gets into a demo, how Playlists look and behave, and how fast you can tidy up your Content Library.

Here's what we shipped 👇

• Demos in any language, translated inside the screens ⭐
• Figma designs imported straight into Walnut ⭐
• A section library for Playlists and Deal Rooms
• Email verification on the demo gate ⭐
• Deal Rooms without a CRM opportunity ⭐
• Gradient backgrounds for Playlists ⭐
• Auto-advance for Playlists
• Bulk tagging in the Content Library ⭐
• A renameable Mutual Action Plan
• Side navigation and smarter search for multi-page Playlists
• Expiration dates for Playlists and Deal Rooms
• Notify the CRM account owner
• Text sections in Choose Your Own Adventure Playlists
• Type any font size in Playlists and Deal Rooms
• Zoom into the moment on guide steps

⭐ = you asked for this on our public roadmap.

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Demos in Any Language: Translate the Screens, Not Just the Guides

⭐ You asked for this

A demo built in English only lands with buyers who read English. Translating one used to mean recapturing every screen in a new language, or maintaining a separate demo per market and keeping them all in sync.

Now you ask the agent to translate the demo and it translates the text inside the screens themselves: buttons, headings, table cells, menu items and placeholders.

What you can do:

• Ask in one line, for example "Translate this demo to German"
• Add a language your viewers can switch to, so one demo serves many markets with the same screens, edits and flows
• Or rewrite the demo's own text in the new language, when you do not need the original back
• Let guides come along with it, with narration audio regenerated where you have it
• Fix any word by clicking it on the canvas, and keep that wording permanently even if you re-run the translation later
• Teach it your vocabulary, such as keeping a product name in English, and it carries your choice across every screen
• Check how complete each language is before you share, and get a warning if a demo is still part-translated
• Hand a language to a human translator as a CSV and import their corrections back

The result:

One demo that speaks your buyer's language, with no second demo to maintain.

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Figma Designs, Straight into Walnut

⭐ You asked for this

Your newest product often exists in Figma long before anyone can demo it, which means waiting on engineering to build it first.

Paste a Figma link into Walnut and the frames come across as editable screens.

What you can do:

• Paste a Figma file or frame link and choose the frames you want
• Get real HTML screens rather than screenshots, so text, colors and layout stay editable
• Keep the prototype's wiring, so clicks between frames arrive as working links
• Edit the result in the demo editor like any other Walnut screen

The result:

You can demo a product before it is built.

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A Section Library for Playlists and Deal Rooms

Until now, reusing a section meant rebuilding it in every Playlist and every Deal Room, and getting something slightly different each time.

Now you save a section once and drop that exact section wherever you need it.

What you can do:

• Save any section you build, including hero banners, galleries, carousels, CTAs and embedded demos
• Insert it into any Playlist or Deal Room and get an identical copy every time, with no drift between deals
• Update a saved entry so every future insert picks up the new version
• Leave sections already placed in something you have sent exactly as they are, so improving the library never edits a Deal Room already with a buyer
• Browse the library in the Resource Hub with folders, search, and a filter for who saved each entry

The result:

One approved section, identical in every deal it appears in.

Read more here

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Verify the Email on Your Demo Gate

⭐ You asked for this

The email gate collected an address but never checked it, so a viewer could type anything and walk straight into the demo.

Now you can require viewers to confirm their address by clicking a link Walnut emails them before the demo opens.

What you can do:

• Turn verification on for a demo in the share panel, or for a Playlist in its access settings
• Let viewers verify once at a Playlist gate and open every demo inside without being asked again
• Use it on your own custom domain, not only on Walnut URLs
• Set the company default and enforce it from Settings > Access Control

Existing gates do not change until you switch verification on, and enforcement applies to demos and Playlists created from that point forward, so nothing already out with a buyer gets locked.

The result:

The addresses in your lead capture are addresses that actually exist.

Read more here >

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Deal Rooms Without a CRM Opportunity

⭐ You asked for this

Creating a Deal Room used to require an existing CRM opportunity, which ruled it out for early discovery, ABM outreach, and post-close handoffs.

Now you can create one straight from the Library at any point in the relationship.

What you can do:

• Create a Deal Room from the Library with no opportunity attached
• Use one in early discovery, an ABM play, or a post-close handoff
• Attach a deal later if there is one to attach

The result:

A Deal Room whenever the relationship calls for one, not only when the CRM says so.

Read more here ›

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Gradient Backgrounds for Playlists

⭐ You asked for this

Playlist backgrounds were a single flat color, which rarely matches a brand built on a gradient.

Now the Playlist background, the section backgrounds and the player background can each be a multi-color gradient.

What you can do:

• Use two to five color stops at any angle, with a live preview as you drag them
• Switch any individual control between Solid and Gradient
• Apply it in every Playlist layout
• Save a gradient once and reuse it across every Playlist and Deal Room in your account

The result:

Playlists that match your brand instead of approximating it.

Read more here ›

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Auto-Advance for Playlists

A Playlist needed someone to click to move on, so a screen left running unattended stopped at the first item.

Turn on auto-advance in Playlist settings and the Playlist moves through its items by itself, with no need to link items to each other.

What you can do:

• Switch on "Auto-advance to next item" in Playlist settings
• Let videos advance when they finish, whether uploaded, YouTube or Vimeo
• Let guided demos advance once the viewer reaches the last step
• Rely on interaction taking priority: a click, a scroll or a keystroke stops the advance and the item stays put

The result:

A Playlist that runs itself on a booth screen, and stands still the moment a real viewer engages with it.

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Bulk Tagging in the Content Library

⭐ You asked for this

Tagging was one asset at a time, which made organizing a large library a long afternoon.

Now you can apply or remove a tag across a whole selection in a single action.

What you can do:

• Select any number of assets and apply a tag in one action
• Remove a tag from an entire selection just as quickly
• Mix asset types in the same selection

The result:

Library housekeeping in one pass instead of one item at a time.

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Rename the Mutual Action Plan

Every buyer already has their own name for the plan you build with them, but the tab always said "Mutual Action Plan".

Now you can rename it.

What you can do:

• Rename the Mutual Action Plan to whatever your buyer already calls it, such as "Your Next Steps" or "Go-Live Checklist"
• See the new name carried through everywhere the buyer sees it

The result:

The plan uses the words your buyer already uses.

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Side Navigation and Smarter Search for Multi-Page Playlists

A row of page tabs gets crowded once a Playlist has more than a few pages, and in-hub search only matched what was in a title.

Now pages can sit in a side navigation, and search looks deeper.

What you can do:

• Choose Tabs or Side navigation from the new Layout menu beside Settings, and switch at any point while editing
• Drag pages to reorder them, and rename them, right in the side navigation
• Keep the tab row on phones, where a side column would take up too much of the screen
• In a Deal Room with side navigation, find the Mutual Action Plan, Updates and Comments buttons in the header
• Let in-hub search match a demo's description and the text inside sections, not just titles, with the matching words highlighted in the results

The result:

Long Playlists stay easy to navigate, and buyers find what they are looking for even when they don't know its name.

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Expiration Dates for Playlists and Deal Rooms

Demos could expire, but a Playlist or Deal Room stayed open until someone remembered to archive it.

Now you can set an expiration date in its settings.

What you can do:

• Turn on the expiration date in the Playlist settings panel and pick a date, next to the access code setting
• Set a Deal Room's expiration date the same way
• Rely on the same rule as demo expiration: viewers can open it through the whole chosen date, until end of day UTC

The result:

Time-boxed campaigns and deal cycles close on schedule, without anyone having to remember.

Read more here ›

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Notify the CRM Account Owner

View and update notifications could reach the deal owner from your CRM, but not the person who owns the account.

Now you can add the account owner as a recipient.

What you can do:

• Tick Account owner (from CRM) next to Deal owner (from CRM) in a demo's share settings and in a Playlist's notification settings
• Notify the account owner from Salesforce or HubSpot when a demo or Playlist is viewed, and when a Deal Room is updated
• Add the Deal owner and Account owner recipients to a Playlist's Viewer Alert even when it isn't linked to a deal, as long as your CRM is connected. Walnut matches the viewer to a deal by their email or email domain.

The result:

The person who owns the relationship hears about it when the account engages.

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Text Sections in Choose Your Own Adventure Playlists

A Choose Your Own Adventure Playlist could only hold galleries, so there was nowhere to add a sentence of framing between choices.

Now you can add a text section.

What you can do:

• Choose Text instead of Gallery from the add-section menu
• Place text among your galleries on the welcome page to introduce or explain a choice
• Keep the player clean: text sections appear on the welcome page only, not in the player sidebar

The result:

Buyers get the context they need before they choose their path.

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Type Any Font Size in Playlists and Deal Rooms

The font size menu in the Playlist and Deal Room editor offered a fixed list of sizes, and the jump between them often forced text to truncate in tight cards.

Now you can type the exact size you want.

What you can do:

• Type any size from 4 to 400 in the text toolbar, or step it up and down with the - and + buttons
• Still pick from the preset sizes in the menu beside it
• Work with a section's Background, Layout and Remove controls in a bar above the preview, which only appears when a section is selected

The result:

Text that fits the card, at exactly the size you chose.

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Zoom Into the Moment on Guide Steps

On a dense screen, a guide step could point at something the viewer still had to hunt for.

A guide step can now zoom into the part of the screen it is talking about.

What you can do:

• Add a zoom to a guide step so the view moves to what the step describes
• Keep the step's tooltip anchored correctly while the view moves

The result:

Buyers look at the thing you are describing on the first try.