BL — what changed in the latest 10-Q
A section-by-section comparison of BL's newest periodic SEC filing (10-K/10-Q) against the prior same-form filing: paragraphs added and removed per section, with verbatim excerpts. Purely a deterministic text diff — no similarity scores, no directional read, not investment advice.
Comparing 10-Q · 2026-08-05 vs the prior 10-Q · 2026-05-07
| Section | Outcome | Added | Removed | Minor | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD&A | Text added/removed | +79 | −53 | ~31 | 17 |
| Market risk (Item 3) | Text added/removed | +2 | −1 | ~2 | 7 |
| Controls & procedures | Text added/removed | +1 | −2 | ~1 | 1 |
| Legal proceedings | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~1 | 0 |
| Risk factors | Some risk factors updated | +24 | −28 | ~35 | 201 |
| Other information | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~2 | 0 |
Counts are paragraphs; added/removed means text added or removed vs the prior filing — no direction or judgement implied.
Representative excerpts
Up to 5 excerpts of about 300 characters per section, quoted verbatim from the two SEC filings.
MD&A
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
BlackLine’s Agentic Financial Operations Platform drives digital finance transformation by empowering organizations with accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial operations. Powered by Studio360 and using intelligence powered by Verity - a comprehensive suite of embedded, auditable AI capabili…
The platform is comprised of four primary functional layers that work as one:
•The Unified Financial Data Foundation: Aggregates and harmonizes transactional data from disparate enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) and banking systems into a consolidated, extensible data model.
•The Auditable Trust and Governance Layer: Enforces configurable rules, permissions, and financial controls to ensure system and user actions remain traceable and compliant.
•The Event-Driven Orchestration Engine: Sequences and automates workflows in real time across systems, personnel, and artificial intelligence agents.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
We offer a future-ready platform that drives digital finance transformation by empowering organizations with accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial operations. Built on the Studio360 platform, BlackLine unifies data, streamlines processes, and delivers real-time insights through automation a…
In September 2025, we launched Verity, a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities that provides finance and accounting teams with a digital workforce of embedded and auditable AI. Verity is integrated throughout our solutions and supports a broad range of use cases across our customers’ financial oper…
We derived approximately 95% of our revenue from subscriptions to our cloud-based software platform and approximately 5% from professional services for the quarter ended March 31, 2026. Our subscription contracts have initial non-cancellable terms of one year to three years with renewal options. The…
Professional services consist primarily of implementation and consulting services. Our products are available for immediate use upon granting customer access. We typically assist customers with implementation and provide consulting services to help them optimize the use of our solutions. We invoice …
maintaining high satisfaction and educating customers on the value of our full product portfolio to support account expansion.
Market risk (Item 3)
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
Inflationary pressures may affect our customers’ purchasing power and budget allocations, particularly for discretionary technology spending. If our customers experience increased costs in other areas of their operations,
they may delay or reduce their investment in software solutions, which could impact our sales cycle and overall demand. Furthermore, if our own costs were to become subject to significant inflationary pressures, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases, and this c…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
Inflationary pressures may affect our customers’ purchasing power and budget allocations, particularly for discretionary technology spending. If our customers experience increased costs in other areas of their operations, they may delay or reduce their investment in software solutions, which could i…
Controls & procedures
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
Disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or “the Exchange Act” means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
Disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or “the Exchange Act” means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by…
that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms; and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive officer and princ…
Risk factors
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
affected. In that event, the market price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment.
Our growth depends in part upon increasing our customer base, which will depend, in large part, upon the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts, both domestically and internationally. We may have difficulty
attracting potential customers that rely on widely-available and inexpensive software tools, or that have already invested substantial personnel and financial resources to integrate internally-developed or other software solutions into their businesses, as such organizations may be reluctant or unwi…
Further, as the markets for our existing solutions mature, or as current and future competitors introduce new products or services that compete with ours, we may experience pricing pressure and be unable to renew our agreements with existing customers or attract new customers at prices that are prof…
any of which could affect our revenue. For example, we have shifted to a platform pricing model, which is no longer tied to the number of users and is instead driven by the size and complexity of the customer. We are uncertain as to how this new model will be received by our customers and certain cu…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
Our growth depends in part upon increasing our customer base, which will depend, in large part, upon the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts, both domestically and internationally. We may have difficulty attracting potential customers that rely on widely-available and inexpensive softwa…
As we move to a platform model, our growth depends upon our ability to sell additional products and increase usage from our existing customers. It is important for the growth of our business that our existing customers make additional significant purchases of our products through our platform. Altho…
Further, as the markets for our existing solutions mature, or as current and future competitors introduce new products or services that compete with ours, we may experience pricing pressure and be unable to renew our agreements with existing customers or attract new customers at prices that are prof…
Our operating results may vary based on the impact of changes in our industry or the global economy on us or our customers. The revenue growth and potential profitability of our business depend on demand for business
software applications and services generally, and for accounting and finance systems in particular. We have been operating in a period of economic uncertainty and cannot predict the timing, strength, or duration of any economic recovery. The global economy has been, and may in the future be adversel…
How to read Risk Factors (Item 1A) in a 10-Q
A 10-Q risk-factor section usually takes one of three forms; this page classifies it as one of:
- Pointer — the filer states there have been no material changes and points back to the annual 10-K risk factors; there is no own risk text to compare this quarter.
- Partial update — the filer carves out specific updated risks ("except as set forth below"); the excerpts show exactly what is new this quarter.
- Restated in full — the quarter carries the complete risk-factor text. When the prior quarter was only a pointer there is no prior full text to diff against, so the page flags the section as restated instead.
This describes the filing structure only — it is never a judgement on whether risk went up or down.
Source: text-level diff of the two SEC EDGAR filings · deterministic (no AI-generated content) · for reference only · not investment advice