Google Labs' Tabletop Lets Friends and Families Build Their Own AI Planning Tools in One Shared Space

The new experiment turns a prompt into polls, itineraries, expense splitters and brackets that a whole group can use at the same time. It is opening by waitlist to adults in the United States.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Labs on Wednesday introduced Tabletop, an experiment that gives a group of friends, a family or a club a shared online space where an AI assistant builds small custom tools on request. It is rolling out in the United States to people 18 and older through a waitlist at labs.google/tabletop.

Members drop links, files and ideas into a space, then mention @tabletop in the chat or pick a starter template. Roman Nurik, design and engineering lead at Google Labs, wrote in the announcement that the assistant can generate “custom interactive trip itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters, and tournament brackets.” The person who sets up the space then drops an invite link in the group chat, and everyone can use it at the same time, “like in a Google Doc,” Nurik wrote.

A Tabletop space for a pickleball club, with a member roster beside the group chat. Image: Google

The tools are meant to change as plans do. Google’s product page says members can ask @tabletop “to tweak a rule, reshape a tab, or build something new on the spot.” Its examples include a spinnable wheel that picks dinner stops on a road trip, a live bracket and a T-shirt vote for a pickleball league, an interactive seating chart for an office party, a chore tracker that awards points toward a family pizza night, and a tide checker for a beach cleanup crew. In one demo, the club’s Pong game is rebuilt on request with a bouncing pickle for a ball.

Club members vote on T-shirt designs in a tab that Tabletop built. Image: Google

The Verge noted that Tabletop looks a little like workplace project tools such as Asana and Monday, but is aimed at personal planning, with the AI assistant writing the tools from a plain description.

Access is limited for now. Tabletop is invite-only, and Google says it is opening “new tables every week.” The Google Labs account on X said each person who gets off the waitlist receives five invites that others can use without waiting.

A finance tab tracks a club’s shared expenses. Image: Google

Google Labs’ post introducing Tabletop on Nov. 11. Screenshot: @GoogleLabs on X

Google Labs also released a short video showing a group setting up a space.

Video: Google Labs on YouTube