September 2026

September has been about serving many buyers from one demo, and about knowing what goes out before it goes out. One demo now carries a set of values per segment, templates can be commented on and approved before anyone can publish them, and a deck you already have becomes clickable screens.

There are also new controls over how narration sounds, what Insights tells you about lead capture, and how quickly you can rearrange a hub.

Here's what we shipped this month 👇

• Demo Presets — one demo, a set of values per segment
• Review and approve demo templates, without leaving Walnut ⭐
• Import a presentation as clickable screens
• A pronunciation dictionary for Text to Speech ⭐
• Lead forms in Insights ⭐
• Voiceover speed controls ⭐
• Drag and drop content items in Playlists and Deal Rooms ⭐
• Hide the audio player
• A quieter editor topbar

⭐ = you asked for this on our public roadmap.

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Demo Presets: One Demo, Every Segment

A demo with ten variables served to ten segments means a hundred values to define, keep straight, and redo every time the demo changes — today living in someone's spreadsheet, or in ten copies of the same demo quietly drifting apart.

Now you build one demo, define a set of values per segment, and switch between them on the link.

What you can do:

• Define a preset per segment — healthcare, retail, financial services — and switch between them on a published demo
• Manage your variables in one place: a global Variables surface in the Resource hub, shared across the team
• Promote a variable a template already uses to a company-wide one, and add a batch of variables to a preset in one go
• Describe a new segment in a sentence and let AI fill the whole set, logo and headshot included, in a form you can edit before saving
• Pick the segment on the pre-flight screen before you present, and see exactly what every field will say
• Let narration follow the variables, so the audio says the same names the screen does
• Or copy a link with a segment already applied and send it ahead of the meeting

The result:

Fix a screen once and every segment gets the fix.

Learn more about demo variables ›

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Review and Approve Demo Templates, Without Leaving Walnut

⭐ You asked for this

Feedback on a template lived in a doc nobody opened, and nothing stood between a template and the buyer it was about to go out to.

Now you comment directly on an element, a screen or a whole template — and you can require an approval before anything is published.

What you can do:

• Leave comments anchored to the element you clicked, which survive that element changing
• Mention a colleague and reach them in Walnut and in their daily digest
• Read one review state everywhere — Draft, In review, Approved, Needs re-approval — on the library card, in the editor header, and in the library filter
• Let an edit to an approved template send it back for re-approval on its own, so nobody has to remember
• See review actions recorded on the version they happened on, so you know which version was approved and what has changed since
• See who can approve a blocked publish, and read the reviewer's reason where the creator will actually find it

Comments, mentions and notifications are simply there. Review states and the publish gate appear once an admin turns approval on for the account — until then, publishing works exactly as it does today.

The result:

Nothing ships before the person who has to sign off has signed off.

Read more here ›

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Import a Presentation: Turn a Deck into Clickable Screens

The deck that already tells your story had to be rebuilt screen by screen before it could live inside a demo.

Now you upload a .pptx or a .pdf and every slide becomes a Walnut screen.

What you can do:

• Import from the editor under Add → Import Presentation, or just ask the AI assistant to do it
• Pick the slides you want and send them to a new section or to an existing one
• Click through imported slides, guide them, and mix them with captured screens
• Keep your speaker notes — they come across as presenter notes

Slides are imported as images, so their text is not editable in Walnut. A PDF keeps fonts and emoji exactly as they look in your deck; a .pptx swaps any font we do not have.

The result:

The deck you already have becomes part of the demo.

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A Pronunciation Dictionary for Text to Speech

⭐ You asked for this

Narration mispronounced the words that matter most — product names, acronyms, proper nouns — and getting it right meant a support ticket.

Now you tell Walnut how to say a word once. Write the word, add a plain-English respelling — Walnut → wall-nut — and narration says it correctly.

What you can do:

• Add and edit rules from the Text to Speech panel in the editor
• Respell a word, or record yourself saying it and pick from the pronunciations Walnut generates
• Preview a rule against any voice before you save it
• Apply rules across the whole workspace, in every language, including agent-generated and translated narration
• Set a priority so a longer, more specific rule wins over a shorter one

The result:

Your brand names sound like your brand names.

Read more here ›

👉 See it in action

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Lead Forms in Insights

⭐ You asked for this

If you embed demos with a lead form, Insights never told you which demos captured leads or which viewers submitted one. The data was already there — it just was not surfaced.

Now lead capture appears in Insights alongside everything else you track.

What you can do:

• Sort and filter the All demos list by lead form
• See a lead form badge on a demo's Insights page
• See who submitted, in the sessions table

The result:

You can tell which demos actually generate leads.

More on identifying viewers with lead forms ›

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Voiceover Speed Controls

⭐ You asked for this

Narration ran at one pace, whether the step was a dense technical explanation or a one-line "click here".

Now you set the pace on any individual guide step.

What you can do:

• Pick from five options, Slower through Faster, next to the narrator voice in the narration panel
• Keep that choice in every language the step is translated into, including languages you add later
• Set it from AI Mode too

The result:

Pacing that matches the step instead of the demo.

Learn more about Text to Speech ›

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Drag and Drop Content Items in Playlists and Deal Rooms

⭐ You asked for this

Moving a content item from one section to another meant deleting it in one place and re-adding it in the other.

Now you drag it.

What you can do:

• Move demos, images, videos and documents between any gallery or carousel section
• Drag across pages by hovering a page tab mid-drag — the canvas follows without dropping the item
• Keep comment threads attached to the item wherever it lands

The result:

Rearranging a hub takes as long as it looks like it should.

More on building Playlists ›

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Hide the Audio Player

A narrated step carried a visible player control, even when all you wanted was the voice.

Now you can turn the player off for a template — the recording still plays, viewers just do not see the control.

What you can do:

• Set it once in the template's Guides settings, right under Autoplay media recordings
• Leave existing demos alone — the player stays on until you turn it off

The result:

Cleaner guide steps on narrated demos, without giving up the voiceover.

Learn more about Text to Speech ›

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A Quieter Editor Topbar

The editor topbar now leads with the actions people actually use. Two things moved rather than disappeared:

• Version history sits behind the last-saved timestamp — the place you already look when the question is what changed, and when
• The help centre moved into the profile menu, alongside the rest of the account-level items