Google has opened a waitlist for Tabletop, a Labs experiment that builds small shared tools for a group out of whatever its members feed it. Add links, files and ideas, say what you need, and the result is a live page the whole group can use together.
Google’s own examples are a pickleball league bracket, a map of brunch stops along a road-trip route and a spinner that picks who walks the dog. Behind them are the usual group chores: planning a trip, polling friends on dinner, splitting costs, running a tournament. You ask by typing to @tabletop inside the shared space, or you begin from a starter template, so nobody has to write a formula or lay out a page.
When the space looks right, its invite link goes into the group chat, and whoever opens it can make changes while the others do the same. That is the difference from asking a chatbot for a plan in private and pasting the answer back to everyone: here the group works on the same page and sees each other’s edits as they happen.
Roman Nurik, who leads design and engineering for Google Labs, wrote the announcement, which pitches it at the family trip or the potluck where one person ends up doing all the organising. Google has not said which Gemini model does the building or what Tabletop will cost.
Sign-up is at labs.google/tabletop, and the waitlist takes only adults in the US, aged 18 and over. Google has set no date for letting people in.
